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The Gardens of Monticello were gardens first designed by Thomas Jefferson for his plantation Monticello near Charlottesville, Virginia. Jefferson's detailed historical accounts of his 5,000 acres provide much information about the ever-changing contents of the gardens. [1] The areas included a flower garden, a fruit orchard, and a vegetable garden.
The Colonial Revival garden is typified by simple rectilinear beds, straight (rather than winding) pathways through the garden, and perennial plants from the fruit, ornamental flower, and vegetable groups. [1] The garden is usually enclosed, often by low walls, fences, or hedges. [1] The Colonial Revival gardening movement was an important ...
Now the home of the seventh and eighth generation of the family, author Anne Butler and her daughter Chase Poindexter, Butler Greenwood is a simple, raised cottage-style plantation house filled with oil portraits, Brussels carpet, gilded pier mirrors, Mallard poster beds, fine china and silverware, a French Pleyel grand piano, and the area's finest original Victorian formal parlor, its twelve ...
The earliest known flower arranging dates back to ancient Egypt. Egyptians were decorating with flowers as early as 2,500 BCE. They regularly placed cut flowers in vases, [1] and highly stylized arrangements were used during burials, for processions, and simply as table decorations. Illustrations of arranged flowers have been found on Egyptian ...
Evergreen Plantation. April 27, 1992. Wallace. 30°01′37″N 90°38′22″W / 30.02690°N 90.63958°W / 30.02690; -90.63958 (Evergreen Plantation) St. John the Baptist. Composed of 39 buildings, Evergreen Plantation is an intact major antebellum plantation complex of the Southern United States. [6][7] Open to visitors.
19th-century illustration. Lily of the valley (Convallaria majalis / ˌ k ɒ n v ə ˈ l ɛər i ə m ə ˈ dʒ eɪ l ɪ s /), [2] sometimes written lily-of-the-valley, [3] is a woodland flowering plant with sweetly scented, pendent, bell-shaped white flowers borne in sprays in spring.
Magnolia grandiflora is a medium to large evergreen tree which may grow 60–80 ft (18–24 m) tall. [6] It typically has a single stem (or trunk) and a pyramidal shape. [7] The leaves are simple and broadly ovate, 12–20 cm (4⁄ – 7⁄ in) long and 6–12 cm (2⁄ – 4⁄ in) broad, [7] with smooth margins. They are dark green, stiff, and ...
An arrangement displayed at a church in Beer, United Kingdom. Floral design or flower arrangement is the art of using plant material and flowers to create an eye-catching and balanced composition or display. Evidence of refined floral design is found as far back as the culture of ancient Egypt. Floral designs, called arrangements, incorporate ...