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    Botanist's Lens: Endemic, Rare Living Collections
    Meenal Harankhedkar, Director of Horticulture
    • Dec 18, 2020
    • 2 min

    Botanist's Lens: Endemic, Rare Living Collections

    The Dell with a Dawn Redwood tree (Metasequoia gylptostroboides) and the South River London Town's garden is a sanctuary of its own. The ...
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    Botanist's Lens: Moon Gardens
    Meenal Harankhedkar, Director of Horticulture
    • Dec 11, 2020
    • 2 min

    Botanist's Lens: Moon Gardens

    Adding alba, blanca and leuc blossoms for respite after a mundane day. Magnolia White flowers are spectacular choices to enjoy during the...
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    Botanist's Lens: Landscape Canvases
    Meenal Harankhedkar, Director of Horticulture
    • Dec 4, 2020
    • 3 min

    Botanist's Lens: Landscape Canvases

    Rudbeckias' yellows in the pollinator section of the Lilian S. Hall Memorial Garden take center stage in late summer as the cottage garde...
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    Botanist's Lens: Nature's Tapestry
    Meenal Harankhedkar, Director of Horticulture
    • Nov 20, 2020
    • 2 min

    Botanist's Lens: Nature's Tapestry

    Nature's fall tapestry: Yellow Amsonia, Salvia purples, Sedum bronze and Yucca yellow-greens. True beauty lies within. Very true when it ...
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    Botanist's Lens: Tea, Taxa, and Technique
    Meenal Harankhedkar, Director of Horticulture
    • Nov 13, 2020
    • 2 min

    Botanist's Lens: Tea, Taxa, and Technique

    Tea Camellia, Camellia sinensis Two’s company and three’s a crowd? Not even when - oddly enough - tea, taxa, and technique are squished t...
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    Botanist's Lens: Life Sans Senescence
    Meenal Harankhedkar, Director of Horticulture
    • Nov 6, 2020
    • 2 min

    Botanist's Lens: Life Sans Senescence

    Maidenhair tree (Ginkgo biloba) Senescence is the last stage of plant development. Leaf buds grow into a leaf, mature and during senescen...
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    Botanist's Lens: Winter's Rose or Knock Out Rose - What's in a Name?
    Meenal Harankhedkar, Director of Horticulture
    • Oct 30, 2020
    • 2 min

    Botanist's Lens: Winter's Rose or Knock Out Rose - What's in a Name?

    Is it a rose? This is Camellia 'Winter's Star' (Ackerman hybrid) "What's in a name? That which we call a rose. By any other name would sm...
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    Botanist's Lens: Hearts-a-Bustin', Beautyberry, and Lantana
    Meenal Harankhedkar, Director of Horticulture
    • Oct 20, 2020
    • 2 min

    Botanist's Lens: Hearts-a-Bustin', Beautyberry, and Lantana

    The Berryliciousness of Fall Begins! Hearts-a bustin' (Euonymus americanus) Fall berries are a crucial food source for birds. Currently b...
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    Botanist's Lens: Wind Flowers, Toad Lilies, and Silver Grass
    Meenal Harankhedkar, Director of Horticulture
    • Oct 9, 2020
    • 3 min

    Botanist's Lens: Wind Flowers, Toad Lilies, and Silver Grass

    Fall flowers of whimsy, elegance and simplicity. Toad Lily, Tricyrtis hirta 'Miyazaki' hybrid Anemones 'wind flowers', Tricyrtis sp. 'Toa...
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    Clearance Plant Sale
    Historic London Town
    • Oct 5, 2020
    • 1 min

    Clearance Plant Sale

    Through October 16 We still have a limited supply of select plants left from our fall plant sale. Our clearance sale is online only and b...
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    Botanist's Lens: Fall Flavor, Mums, and More!
    Meenal Harankhedkar, Director of Horticulture
    • Oct 2, 2020
    • 2 min

    Botanist's Lens: Fall Flavor, Mums, and More!

    Mums and Ornamental Peppers Shorter days and longer nights call for Mums (Chrysanthemum sps.) to go in bloom craziness instantly. But are...
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    Botanist's Lens: Passion for All Things that Photosynthesize
    Historic London Town
    • Sep 25, 2020
    • 2 min

    Botanist's Lens: Passion for All Things that Photosynthesize

    Sharing garden treasures, one seed at a time, one vision and immense passion for all things that photosynthesize! Passion is innate. Pass...
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    Endangered Plants
    Historic London Town
    • Sep 22, 2020
    • 1 min

    Endangered Plants

    According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), more than 3,654 plant species are endangered. That is more than 2...
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    Seeds for Sale! Seeds for Sale!
    Historic London Town
    • Sep 20, 2020
    • 1 min

    Seeds for Sale! Seeds for Sale!

    When you come to the Plant Sale on Saturday, September 26 (9am – 2pm), you can take home something truly special: seeds collected from pl...
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    Botanist's Lens: Designing the Layers of a Woodland Garden
    Meenal Harankhedkar, Director of Horticulture
    • Sep 18, 2020
    • 1 min

    Botanist's Lens: Designing the Layers of a Woodland Garden

    A mosaic of canopy covers, understory and herb layers "The Eastern deciduous forest biome that stretches from Canada to Georgia is the wo...
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    Plants in Danger of Extinction
    Historic London Town
    • Sep 14, 2020
    • 1 min

    Plants in Danger of Extinction

    Did you know that more than 20% of plant species are in danger of extinction? According to the Botanic Gardens Conservation Index, many o...
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    Botanist's Lens: Preserving Plants in Peril - The Public Garden Way
    Meenal Harankhedkar, Director of Horticulture
    • Sep 11, 2020
    • 2 min

    Botanist's Lens: Preserving Plants in Peril - The Public Garden Way

    London Town's woodland gardens: Rhododendron 'Dexter', with Ostrich Fern and wild ginger Our goal for the Plant Sale is to bring you clos...
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    Plant Sale List Announced!
    Historic London Town
    • Sep 10, 2020
    • 1 min

    Plant Sale List Announced!

    Ostrich Ferns for sale, directly from our gardens! Thinking about coming to the Plant Sale on Saturday, September 26, 9am - 2pm? You can ...
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    Botanist's Lens: Late Summer Nectar Pots for Pollinators
    Meenal Harankhedkar, Director of Horticulture
    • Sep 6, 2020
    • 2 min

    Botanist's Lens: Late Summer Nectar Pots for Pollinators

    Cooler nights and early sunsets are a gentle reminder of the fall weather approaching soon. The grass blades are certainly enjoying the c...
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    Tornado Impact at London Town
    Historic London Town
    • Sep 4, 2020
    • 1 min

    Tornado Impact at London Town

    UPDATED 10.8.2020 Thank you to everyone who has reached out about the tornado that touched down in Edgewater last night. Fortunately, the...
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