The four enclosed string tunnels run diagonally from the corners of the garden to the central circular garden that’s framed on four sides by a string fence. The strings are attached to thin metal ...
Enclosed and hidden gardens have always appealed to me as spaces sheltered from the stormy world. But a bunker alone is not enough; a refuge must be uplifting and play to the senses. Where better to ...
The Met Cloisters isn’t just about medieval art. There’s also a garden that’s like a living history book — with ideas for today’s gardeners. By Margaret Roach Carly Still had been working as a ...
The annual Anchorage Garden Club tour of area gardens has a couple of interesting twists this year. For one thing, all of the featured gardens are east of Muldoon Road, either in East Anchorage or ...
Enclosed and hidden gardens have always appealed to me as spaces sheltered from the stormy world. But a bunker alone is not enough; a refuge must be uplifting and play to the senses. Where better to ...
The beds in the cloister are filled partly with sweet-smelling plants which give pleasure to the mind, and partly with plants associated by tradition and legend with the Blessed Virgin Mary, in whose ...
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.
NEW YORK — The Cloisters is not so much a museum as a house for worship. It’s not only the powerful medieval artworks that inspire such reverence, but the setting as well. The museum was designed at ...