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On the Inside with Jacqueline Hériteau: The Tulip Library
The landscaping season is just getting under way in and around the Capitol. A favorite spot of mine is the Tulip Library, a neat garden located between the Tidal basin and the Jefferson Memorial. There are about 100 small beds, each planted with one to two hundred varieties of tulips, most of them samples of the tulips that bloom around town. Early this month you may still be in time to see some of the lovely little species tulips that have been planted there this year for the first time at the recommendation of Rob DeFeo, chief horticulturist for the National Park Service. Species tulips come back in my garden, along with the tall tulips that the squirrels steal and bury in the pachysandra, but other tulips rarely bloom a second time for me. As I understand tulipology, after they bloom, the mother bulbs of the big beautiful Dutch tulips make bulblets instead of making flowers for next year’s blooming.
On the Inside with Jacqueline Heriteau: Digging The Net
As though you didn’t know, SurferMania - and I do refer to surfing the Internet and other electronic highways - is sweeping the garden world. It’s a revolution and I’m here to tell you, it’s irresistible! That’s the word from an honest four-thumbed electronics nerd.
I’m not going to drop bauds and Ram and Mbytes on you. (I don’t know what those words mean, anyway.) But I do want you to know that the electronic universe has a whole lot of offer gardeners.
On the Inside with Jacqueline Heriteau: Plant a Pocketful of Dreams
On the Inside with Jacqueline Heriteau: Plant a Pocketful of Dreams
The recipe for happiness on a cold March day with bare trees whistling in the wind and gray clouds whipping across the sky, is to dream up a summer garden. I asked my friend Helmut Jaehnigen, head of the woody plants department at Behnke’s, what is the most exciting flower that he will plant in his garden this summer and got a surprising answer. Helmut just loves summer bulbs, and above all other he loves the canna, that regal flower that looks like a water iris painted by a rainbow.
