Tips: Thomas Church--托马斯 丘奇Beaux Arts--美术学院Harvard--哈佛Berkley--伯克利geometric--几何simultaneously--同时influential--有影响Thomas Church Twentieth Century garden designers in both England and America were educated in t...
Sissinghurst One of the most famous gardeners in the world is the garden at Sissinghurst Castle in Kent, created by Vita Sackville-West and her husband Harold Nicholson. Their son, Nigel, gave the house and gardens to the National Trust, but he gave...
Beatrix Farrand Beatrix Farrand was born into a wealthy New York family in 1872. Her aunt was the novelist Edith Wharton. Beatrix traveled to England in 1895 and was profoundly affected by Gertrude Jekylls garden at Munstead. It was Beatrix who disse...
Gertrude Jekyll January, when gardeners in cold climates are forced to remain indoors, is a month to enjoy reading books about flowers. Most books about gardening include references to Gertrude Jekyll. She was an expert on herbaceous borders. Her tra...
When Pixar Studios creators of computer animated films including Finding Nemo and The Incredibles made Cars, it was a bad sign. That film was supposedly about the value of old things, especially mourning the death of Route 66. But it was really about...
Holly and Ivy At the approach of the holiday season, early American colonists decorated their homes with greenery in the English tradition. They found that the winter foliage in their new land was somewhat different, so they added mountain laurel and...
ForsythiaSpring has arrived and while there is a light film of green on many shrubs and trees, yellow, demands our attention, as the Forsythia blooms. An Englishman, Sir Charles Forsyth, gave his name to this shrub. It grows in any soil and in sun or...
Stratospheric Bacteria D:Nice telescope,Yael,what are you looking at? Y:Bacteria. D:In space? Y:Not that far out,Don.Scientists recently collected three brand new species of bacteria from the Stratosphere. When I heard about it,I couldn't believe it....
A Gift of Flowers Lord Tennyson wrote a simple poem about winter: The frost is here and fuel is dear and woods are sear, and fires burn clear; the frost is here and has bitten the heel of the going year A more cheerful poem was written by an unknown...
Flash Points People who work with chemicals make sure they know the flash point of each substance in their labs. A flash point is the temperature at which the fumes from a liquid can be ignited with a spark. But people who have never taken a chemistr...
A Holiday Tradition A decorated evergreen tree is a German tradition that evolved from the pagan festivals of ancient Rome. German immigrants brought the custom to America. There is a charming story about the first Christmas tree in Williamsburg, Vir...
Hair Grows And Grays Whether you have a full head of curly blond hair or a nearly bald head with dark hair, the growth of your hair begins in the skin on your scalp. On the surface of your head, the outer layer of cellscalled the epidermisis between...
Farmers And Trees Dear Don and Yale: For a long time now, decades probably, I've been hearing about deforestation. But who, exactly, is cutting down all the trees? Y:If I had to guess,I'd say it's farmers clearing land for planting crops.Am I right？...
Fragrant And Toxic Y:What's that smell? D:We'll talking about a study on smell? Y:No,I smell something like perfume or airfresher. D:Oh!Youve probably smelled a fragrant candle light there before we got start it. The scent is called green dragon.I ha...
Coreopsis A stalwart perennial in American gardens, the lanceleaf coreopsis is a native of the prairies of the Midwest. It is a plant with a sunny disposition. The daisy flowers have yellow petals that are toothed at the tips and bloom at the end of...
