gardens

Just after the last post I stopped at Whole Foods in Philadelphia and they are selling Fig Trees! Gotta get one!

Went to Bartram’s Garden. Very hot but a nice breeze, took two tours, one of the grounds and one of the house. I didn’t know Fig trees would grow in Philadelphia!. Born in 1699, John Bartram became America’s first great botanist and with his son William identified and cultivated over 200 new plant species. In [...]

On our way back from Connecticut, we visited Storm King. Located in the Hudson Valley, 50 miles north of the George Washington Bridge, this art center consists of 500 acres of rolling New York hills and fields containing over a hundred post WWII works by renowned artists. It was a very hot muggy day when [...]