The World War I Era in Color
May is the month of gardens and Memorial Day, so I thought I'd take a peek into gardens of the past. On the Library of Congress website, I discovered this gorgeous color image that depicts an important moment in the history of 20th-century gardening. While commercially successful color photography was...
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Thanks to everyone who wrote about their memory gardens. I had no idea these "family" gardens were so popular. I hope these notes from readers give you as many ideas for memory gardens as they gave me. Renee' A Karas of Colorado wrote about how she plants flowers to...
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When Frances Miers Muller wrote me a couple of months ago about the milk and wine lily that originally grew at the family's Waco home, I started thinking about creating a "memory garden." This is a garden of plants that have a special family meaning or association with...
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