Mount Cuba: a botanical legacy
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The du Pont family's Mount Cuba garden serves as a laboratory for developing definitive cultivars of Piedmont flora so gardeners will stop supporting the practice of taking flowers and plants from the wild. Pamela Cunningham Copeland developed the garden, first in a central, more formal area with the help of Marian Coffin, who had worked on other du Pont gardens, then with Richard Lighty, now director of the Mount Cuba Center for the Study of Piedmont Flora. The center is only rarely open to the public.
Publication Name: American Horticulturist
Subject: Home and garden
ISSN: 0096-4417
Year: 1995
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A front-yard makeover
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Richard and Alice Angino's front yard began as a lawn that was hard to mow and maintain, but has been altered to include planting beds and a pink sandstone combination retaining wall and scree, a rocky slope used to display an alpine garden. Numerous plants grow along the retaining wall, giving the impression of a wooded parkland. The pink sandstone was so attractive that it was duplicated in the steps leading to the Japanese garden across the road.
Publication Name: American Horticulturist
Subject: Home and garden
ISSN: 0096-4417
Year: 1996
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By plants possessed: when Richard Angino discovered gardening, he pulled out all the stops
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The 40-acre Angino Gardens, a lavish conservatory with six pools, an amphitheatre, statues, and fountains located in the mountains near Harrisburg, Penn., reflects the hard work and dedication of Richard and Alice Angino. The husband and wife began their planting in the early 1970s, and their collection now includes thousands of plants. Richard Angino is a lawyer who found peace in his gardening pursuits. The Gardens are now open to the public.
Publication Name: American Horticulturist
Subject: Home and garden
ISSN: 0096-4417
Year: 1996
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