Highlights:
August 2005 Show
The
Children’s Garden at Lewis Ginter Botanical Gardens
Guests: Neal Beasley and Anna Halverson–Lewis Ginter Botanical Gardens
(804) 262.9887
www.lewisginter.org
 The new
Children’s Garden is a highly interactive garden designed to provide
children and their families with experiences to delight and amaze. It
includes:
A universally
accessible Leafy Overlook and Tree House funded in part by the Christopher
Reeve Paralysis Foundation.
An International
Village marked by the world’s varied architecture, cultures, gardens
and indigenous plants.
A hands-on
Activity Center where children can design landscapes, pursue art and performance
programs, build projects with natural materials and even dig into the
unknown world under the ground.
A Water
Play Area for summer refreshment with fountains and jets.
Weird and
Contrasting Plants demonstrating the truly unbelievable diversity and
adaptation of plants to their environment.
An Adventure
Pathway exploring prairie, butterfly meadow and evergreen forest environments
with special surprise discoveries along the way.
A Farm Garden
where children can plant and watch grow the diverse fruits and vegetables
that make up the bulk of the world’s diet.
Sage
Garden: Dried Flowers
Guests: John & Roberta Mann
Palmyra Virginia
(434) 589.4706
 Cut most
flowers just before they open fully. Make sure the flowers are dry at
harvest so that moisture does not become trapped between leaves or petals
and cause mold.
Hang bunches
of flowers upside down in a room with low humidity and low light.
Pick hydrangea
when flowers are papery to the touch. Dry the hydrangea by placing cut
stems in a couple inches of water. The water will evaporate and be taken
up by the cut flower.
Use sage
and other herbs as scented fillers in dried arrangements.
Helichrysums
(straw flower) should be cut when just the outer two or three rings of
petals have developed.
Grow salvia
rather than lavender. It is more adapted to the soils and climate of Central
Virginia, but looks much the same once dried. |
