More than a quarter of a century ago when I first began to explore the plant realm, I remember a visit I made one warm afternoon in June was to an old Salem garden where sweet William and foxgloves, ...

Continuum presents a program of music inspired by four medieval gardens, namely; The Garden of Zephirus, The Garden of Earthly Delights, Dreams in the Pleasure Garden, and Dance in the Garden of Mirth ...

In the fall of 2001, Tom Turley, a medieval historian at Santa Clara University, inspired by the medieval garden project at Penn State University which features plants grown in Northern Europe, ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Montana State University fine arts Desiree Baldwin, a former horticulture and landscape design ...

While some people swear by homeopathy to treat their ailments, the fact is we’re more likely to turn to a prescriptions today–thanks, pill-pushing Big Pharma. But centuries ago, doctors only had ...

Assisi (Photo Tour). Franciscan Web Page. Clare of Assisi. The Legend and Writings of Saint Clare of Assisi. St. Bonaventure, New York, 1953. _____. Early Documents ...

Carly Still, the woman in charge of the museum's bounty of plants and herbs, shares how she merged her loves of art and gardening. Carly Still, the Managing Horticulturalist at the Met Cloisters.

From the front door of the glass-walled gift shop at the Alnwick Garden in the far northeast of England, the scene looks innocent enough. A sapphire green English lawn slopes gently downward, toward ...

Anyone who thinks medieval art was a staid affair will have her illusions dispelled by “The Grand Medieval Bestiary: Animals in Illuminated Manuscripts” by Christian Heck and Rémy Cordonnier.

In undertaking the project in 1951 of spreading knowledge of the medieval flowers symbolically named for Mary and their growing as a prayerful religious work, we first of all looked for a name for the ...