Garden
Doesn't Everyone have a Bird in Their Earring?
A faint, brief cheeping broke through the layers of human noise and caught my attention. My head turned quickly to the side of the house, waiting during the pause to pinpoint the source. More cheeping … and my ears reported to my brain that it wasn’t coming from a nest up in the branches, but from the ground. I was reluctant to step off the porch without knowing where it was safe to set my foot down.The baby bird called out with urgency as I inched my way toward his voice. I discovered him half buried in leaves that had blown up against the house during a storm. Perhaps the same storm had tossed him out of his parents’ nest of twigs and warm downy feathers. more »
Reynolda House American Art & Gardens; Twig Reading, Mustardseed Moonshine Ramekins and Molly Dingledine Jewelry
"... the property shall be perpetually held ... for the operation and maintenance of a botanical garden having an aesthetic and educational value... ."— Deed of Gift, 1958 more »
LuEsther Mertz Library, NYBG, Fruits and Flowers of Winter
Gardener, if you listen, listen well: Plant for your winter pleasure, when the months dishearten; Plant to find a fragile note touched from the brittle violin of frost.Vita Sackville-West, The Garden more »
Mrs. Delany and her Circle, at the Yale Center for British Art
At the age of seventy-two, Mary Delany, née Mary Granville (1700–1788), a botanical artist, woman of fashion, and commentator on life and society in eighteenth-century England and Ireland, embarked on a series of one thousand botanical collages, or “paper mosaics.” These were the crowning achievement of a life defined by creative accomplishment. more »
