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ON THE INSIDE with Jacqueline Hériteau To Be Changed
We wander through the gardens at Brookside and the American Horticultural Society’s River Farm to smell the roses and gather beauty secrets — like how tying asters together with soft twine makes a statement in height and color — and how a fountain of tall variegated grasses can soften a brick corner.
Walking the grounds at Monticello you have an experience of a different order. Yes, on a clear day the 360-degree view from Thomas Jefferson’s “little mountain” is extraordinary. Yes, the 1,000-foot long vegetable terrace is an ode to the beauty of beans staked on weathered poles, to silver artichokes, aromatic herbs, and to the talent of its present curator, Maggie Stemann. Yes, this exquisite little mansion is beautifully restored, and the gift shop has been stocked with taste.
On the Inside with Jacqueline Hériteau: Have You Ever Communed with a 100 Year-Old Maple?
The Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden is everything a botanical garden can be: a glorious place to spend a golden fall day, a great center for learning, a storehouse of treasured native plants, and not too far from an interesting city—historic Richmond in this case.
But what is even more exciting is the evidence everywhere of this young botanic garden’s vision of the contribution it hopes to make. To introduce plants adaptive to central Virginia and to expand the plant palette is one way they state their goal. But it’s way bigger. They hope to teach future generations about the interdependence of people and plants. Holly Shimizu, who left her position as Assistant Director of the US Botanic Garden in DC to join the Ginter Garden, puts it this way:
