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Historical Heirloom Gardening with Ornamental Plants Heirloom gardening can combine ornamental plants into a variety of stunning landscape arrangements. Use this historical guide to create your heirloom garden. by Jo Ann Gardner The definition of heirloom ornamental plants is plants introduced to American gardens from 1600 to 1950 and a little beyond to accommodate the iris and other plants defined as "antique". Photo by Pixabay/kriemer ILLUSTRATION: MOTHER EARTH NEWS EDITORS This quiggly fence follows a design similar to one traditionally built in early settler's cottage gar...

Kim Frisbie Special to the Daily News Botanical subjects have long inspired artists, with illustrations of plants dating back to 1465 BC in ancient Egypt. Specific plants used for medicinal purposes were compiled into "herbals" as early as 512 AD. John Gerard’s 1,484-page illustrated Herbal, or Generall Historie of Plantes, was first published in 1597 and was standard medicinal plant reference for more than a century. In 1613, Basilius Besler, a noted apothecary and botanist in Nuremburg, Germany, published the incomparable Florilegium: Hortus Eystettensis, compiling 373 full-color pla...

>> well, thank you so much for coming. can you all hear me in the last row? yes? good. it always feels a little bit like coming home coming to our terms garden. i am going to begin telling you a little bit about how i came to write this book because i was born in india. i am german, and i live in london. some people might wonder how i dare to write about the american founding fathers, but there is logic of it. bear with me. i came to write this book by accident when i was researching and writing my last book, which is about the british obsession with gardens. i would have never thoug...

it >> and this is monticello but when i came up to the mountaintop i was just absolutely astounded because what i saw was really the work of a revolutionary gardener who crafted his ground as carefully as he had crafted his words. it was a protectivity of the land and this combination of the rugged and wild with the neat and useful, i think, is very uniquely american and monticello can be part of jiefrgs beliefs and philosophy. we can read it like his letters, i suppose. in a way john bar tam and monticello became the inspiration of this book. and so i realized that america sat f...

it's you guys who pay the price, not me. [laughter] the other thing is we have to raise the threshold, the income level that is subject to the payroll tax. now it's capped and makes the payroll tax a regressive tax. .. mean by that? federal dollars deutsch to medicare, medicaid, social security and defense. defense spending we've got to cut, we know we can cut it by hundreds of billions of dollars without any real significance. on the insurance side we have to raise premiums, cut taxes or stop providing as much stuff. we have to do that in each of them and the reason is not to be mea...