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Angie Capozello of Medieval Gardens shares: ENLUMINURES EUROPE - VIe - XVIe s. - ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS EUROPE  June 30th is the 181st day ...

1694 Jan Weenix (1639-1719) Agneta Block & her family at their summer home Vijverhof or Flora Batavia, with her cultivated pineapple. I...

Angie Capozello of Medieval Gardens shares: ENLUMINURES EUROPE - VIe - XVIe s. - ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS EUROPE The Harvest of CILIANDRA Jun...

Monticello's Peggy Cornett tells us that... On May 28, 1767 Jefferson observed "Snap-dragon" blooming at Shadwell, his childho...

This morning, as I was driving to my dog's vet, the radio announced that the United States Supreme Court overturned a nearly 50 year-old...

  Vertumnus & Pomona by Frans van Mieris the Younger (1689 - 1763) Pomona was the beautiful goddess of fruitful abundance in ancient Rom...

Peggy Cornett at Thomas Jefferson's Monticello tells us that In 1811 Thomas Jefferson recorded the planting of “Lathyrus odoratus. Sweet...

Pomona Portrait of a lady as Goddess by  Jean Ranc (French, 1674 - 1735)  Pomona was the beautiful goddess of fruitful abundance in ancient ...

Peggy Cornett at Thomas Jefferson's Monticello tells us that The hardy annual Larkspur, Consolida ajacis, re-seeds abundantly in the Mon...

Jean-Baptiste de Saive II (Flemish artist, 1597-c 1642) An Allegory of Spring & Summer   at a Market Scene with a Boy offering Strawbe...

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  There have been many stewards of the land that is now called Longwood Gardens. For centuries, the native Lenni Lenape tribe fished the str...

  By the mid-1930s, Longwood had grown from the original 202 acres to 926 due to Pierre’s purchase of 25 contiguous properties over the year...

  Pierre du Pont’s love for fountains stretched back to when he was mesmerized at the age of six by the huge display of water pumps at the 1...

Jan Brueghel the Elder 1568-1625 & Hendrick van Balen 1575-1632 Spring , 1616 As in these paintings, allegorical characters in stori...

Ten years after purchasing Longwood, Pierre du Pont was just getting warmed up. By 1916 he was contemplating grand indoor facilities “design...

1636 Jan Brueghel the Younger (Flemish, 1601-1678) Frans Francken the Younger (Flemish, 1581-1642) A remote Landscape Setting with Allegor...

  "I have recently experienced what I would formerly have diagnosed as an attack of insanity; that is, I have purchased a small farm,” ...

Pierre S. du Pont was born in 1870 in a DuPont Company house overlooking the Brandywine Creek just north of Wilmington, Delaware. His early ...

There have been many stewards of the land that is now called Longwood Gardens. For centuries, the native Lenni Lenape tribe fished the strea...

  By the mid-1930s, Longwood had grown from the original 202 acres to 926 due to Pierre’s purchase of 25 contiguous properties over the year...

  Pierre du Pont’s love for fountains stretched back to when he was mesmerized at the age of six by the huge display of water pumps at the 1...

  Ten years after purchasing Longwood, Pierre du Pont was just getting warmed up. By 1916 he was contemplating grand indoor facilities “desi...

Presenting a fragrant Spring Rose to a Lady Love by Jeremiasz Falck (active 1656 -1677) engraver Imagery from ancient Egypt depicts flowers...