These giant pink and red flowers (entitled 58th Street) have recently been planted/installed at The Phillips Collection at 21st. and Q Streets, N.W. Earlier this year, they were displayed — along with 8 sculptures like them — on New York City’s Park Avenue. The artist is Will Ryman.
The sculpture is part of The Phillips Collection’s year-long anniversary celebration, 90 Years of New.
To see what’s blooming for other garden bloggers today, visit Carol of May Dreams Gardens, who hosts the monthly Bloom Day.
After the design and installation are complete, maintenance is everything.
This is the United States Institute of Peace, located at 2301 Constitution Avenue, N.W. The building was designed by Moshe Safdie Architects and completed in March 2011. It will open to the public in October 2011.
I wish I could have remained in this spot long enough to see how they would handle the very tip.
Here are some interesting articles that I have found lately:
The Buffalo News reports on Garden Walk Buffalo (New York), which is taking place this weekend. The city-wide tour of 372 home gardens is the largest in the nation and expects to draw 50,000 to 55,000 walkers/visitors. In its 17th year (always the last full weekend in July), it’s estimated that the event will bring $3.4 million to the local economy. (Buffalo, by the way, has highs in the low to mid 80s this weekend.)
The International Herald Tribune has an article, “Enjoy Park Greenery, City Says, but Not as Salad,” about New York park officials’ varying responses to urban foragers.
In the Los Angeles Times garden blog, Emily Green tells what happened when she sowed 1 lb. of wild sunflower seeds in her 4,000 sq. ft. garden. (It “smells like a pan of freshly baked cookies.”)
Monet’s garden at Giverny has a new head gardener, Englishman James Priest, reports the New York Times in this article.
The New York Times also reports on Dr. Munshi-Smith and his team’s study of “urban evolution” in Manhattan’s Highland Park.
Mark Derr (again the New York Times) writes about how he speared an exotic (poisonous) toad to protect his dog and ended up restoring balance to the ecosystem of his pond and yard in “I Killed the Bufo”.
In The Telegraph, Tom Stuart-Smith, wrote about the role of influence and memory in garden design.
This was published in February, but seems more appropriate for the last two weeks’ hot weather: Stephen Orr wrote in the Wall Street Journal about Christy Ten Eyck’s small Texas garden that’s “light on the land” from the use of Texas native plants.
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