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Icons Of New Orleans Architecture

- by Rebecca Egan

Tour proceeds fund the restoration and preservation of Virginia’s historic gardens, and supply graduate degree research fellowships for building comprehensive and ongoing records of historic gardens and landscapes within the Commonwealth, and help the mission of the Garden Club of Virginia. Of specific interest to overseas guests are the Protea garden – a showcase of these other-worldly vegetation – and the world devoted to Restio grasses, big swathes of them in their characteristic deep greens and browns. This is a garden of illusion, occupying barely an acre however giving an impression of depth, breadth and top. Set in a picturesque location, the gardens are organic and include an excellent borders, a walled garden, fruit timber, spring-flowering meadows and flamboyant peacocks. Tours take you from an exploration of the Roman street within the cellar to servants’ quarters in the attics.

When the garden was founded in 1913 to protect the country’s …

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New Orleans Historic Homes

- by Rebecca Egan

A journal printed in the interest of preserving and restoring the modest American 20th century house, the bungalow, and the rich way of life it affords. The indisputable fact that the garden was comprehensively restored in the 19th century doesn’t alter the very fact of its magnificence. These lovely Gardens extends over practically 100 acres of park lands that embody a children’s backyard, aboriginal heritage stroll, herbarium discovery stroll, and observatory. The tours provide a rare alternative for visitors to go contained in the private houses and gardens of some of America’s most stunning historic residences. A stunning low-eaved pavilion extends over the water at one point, while the far finish of the pool is dignified by the Bridge of Seven Stars.

I even have all the time thought that a backyard must be a refuge from the stresses of the rest of the world. The Homes & Gardens Designer …

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