Erik Kiviat’s Hudsonia is an important resource for environmental research and education in the Hudson Valley. Get an eyeful of his perspective here. http://www.townofdover.us/HudsoniaPresentation.pdf

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In the Garden – Pushing for Sustainable Landscapes – NYTimes.com By ANNE RAVER The report  includes a point system for rating a landscape, much like the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Green Building Rating System, which rates the sustainability of buildings. The LEED system, created by the United States Green Building Council, a [...]

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Hot Off the Press: Designer Plant Combinations Awarded, accomplished, and colorful author,  Scott Calhoun traveled the country searching for the freshest, most exciting plant groupings. He visited the gardens of top designers from coast to coast and chose more than 100 combinations to include in his photographic celebration. Riots of complementary colors, masses of grasses, [...]

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Levy Foundation gives $15 million for new native plant garden | lohud.com | The Journal News By Bill Cary The Journal News • May 25, 2008 The Leon Levy Foundation is giving $15 million to The New York Botanical Garden to create a 3.5-acre Native Plant Garden. The garden, which will sit adjacent to the [...]

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gardenhistorygirl The Elizabethan Snail Mount The viewing mount at the Garden of Cosmic Speculation (see previous post) is of particularly illustrious ancestry, being a type favored by the Elizabethans who conferred upon it a typically emblematic meaning. Sir Francis Bacon’s garden (c. 1620) had ‘in the very middle, a fair mount, with three ascents, and [...]

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