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Sunday, February 14th, 2010To celebrate today’s dawn of the Chinese New Year — the Year of the Tiger — the U.S. Postal Service has issued a stamp featuring five blooming daffodils.
Daffodils — or Narcissus as they are more properly known around the world — play a big role in Chinese culture, as well. To find out more [...]
Bulb quilt planted at Myers Elementary
Sunday, December 6th, 2009Inspired by Bulbs grant recipients, Myers Elementary School Junior Master Gardeners, Gainesville, Ga., planted their ‘Learning Quilt’ in a bed frame constructed by the high school shop class.
“The shop class originally made a foot board, but we removed the slats of that piece so the quilt can be seen better,” says Robbie McCormac, who is [...]
Web roundup - St. Basil’s bulb mosaic
Sunday, October 25th, 2009St. Basil’s in bulbs - His Excellency Mr K.G. Gevorgian, Russian ambassador to the Netherlands, joined forces with staff at Keukenhof, the historic Dutch flower bulb park, to add the final touches to a flower bulb mosaic. The mosaic (21 by 12 m, 65,000 flower bulbs) presents an impression of the towers of St. Basil’s [...]
Art connections: Monet’s Agapanthus, Les Fleurs Animées
Sunday, September 27th, 2009Bulbs have long been the subject of art. Here are two examples, from the sublime to the somewhat ridiculous.
Claude Monet is probably most famous for his mural-sized paintings of water lilies, now on display at the Museum of Modern Art. But those paintings are sharing the stage this time with a less-famous but [...]
History connection: Henry Hudson
Sunday, September 27th, 2009At a ceremony in New York’s Battery Park September 9, Princess Maxima of the Netherlands (right) baptized a new ‘Henry Hudson’ tulip to honor the 400th Anniversary of Henry Hudson’s voyage. Battery Park was once the site of the fort that guarded the young colony of New Amsterdam.
The ceremony was part of [...]
On a roll: Inspired by Bulbs project at Grove Patterson Academy
Monday, September 14th, 2009The Inspired by Bulbs project at Grove Patterson Academy in Toledo, Ohio, is off to a running start, according to an article in The Toledo Blade.
The idea for a flower bulb labyrinth got started with a $250 Inspired by Bulbs grant teacher Kara Houser obtained, but “has turned into a huge, major undertaking,” she says.
Kara [...]
Web roundup
Sunday, August 30th, 2009A Tapestry of Color, Unfolding All Year - In her New York Times column, Anne Raver raves about the new four-season border at the New York Botanical Garden designed by two international garden superstars, Piet Oudolf and Jacqueline van der Kloet: “”Observing this latest collaboration unfold from week to week is a revelation for any [...]
Inspired by Bulbs project summaries
Sunday, August 16th, 2009Right: ‘The Learning Quilt’ flower bed planned by Myers Elementary School Junior Master Gardeners, Gainesville, Ga.
The Bulb Project has awarded grants of $250-worth of bulbs to projects around the country to engage children and youth in a variety of exciting and innovative activities. Educators will be collaborating with local retail partners using flower bulbs [...]
Web roundup
Sunday, August 9th, 2009Right, painted allium seedhead in Minns Garden, Cornell University. How-to video coming soon.
Some recent flower bulb web finds:
Watch a landscape evolve before your eyes – online - The Christian Science Monitor reports on the new Seasonal Walk Chronicles website that tracks the new installation at the New York Botanical Garden designed by landscape [...]
Last chance: Inspired by Bulbs grant application deadline July 3
Sunday, June 28th, 2009The deadline for the Inspired by Bulbs grant applications is coming up fast: July 3.
There’s still time to get your application in. Find details here.