Saturday, June 04, 2022

GardenDC Podcast Episode 107: Olmsted Lives

In this episode, we talk with Kirk R. Brown as Frederick Law Olmsted, who was renowned as an American landscape architect, journalist, social critic, and public administrator. The plant profile is on Serviceberry and we share what's going on in the garden as well as some upcoming local gardening events.

Kirk R. Brown as Frederick Law Olmsted

Kirk R. Brown

BTW, YOU can become a listener supporter for as little as $0.99 per month! See how at: https://anchor.fm/gardendc/support.

Show Notes: 1:22 Meet Kirk R. Brown as Frederick Law Olmsted, who was renowned as an American landscape architect, journalist, and more. 2:30 Mark Twain was Olmsted’s neighbor! 4:11 Designed one of the world’s first successful world fairs 4:55 Believed heavily in clean facilities and the importance of clean water 6:15 Sustainability and environmental health 6:58 One of founding members of American Society of Landscape Architects 8:29 One of his mentors was Andrew Jackson Downing 10:39 Impact of not being exposed to green spaces 13:00 Central Park used to be mowed by sheep 15:40 Was asked to design western front of the Capitol Building and also worked on Rock Creek Park 16:40 “We were a country on the move.” — Olmsted 17:54 Everything to the west of the Capitol Building is still Olmsted’s original design 19:29 Discussing children and what we pass onto them 21:03 Creating a picturesque landscape at home 23:55 Homeowners being able to use Olmsted’s “water, land, and woods” grouping 28:00 Everyone should visit National Parks and all the green, natural spaces that you can 29:00 Biltmore Estate is Asheville, NC, was designed by Olmsted and is now a public space 30:56 Search “Olmsted parks” to find all of the parks he worked on and how they’re doing today 32:32 Family lineage as architects 35:03 One of Olmsted’s legs is shorter than the other from medical procedures! 36:43 Celebration of “legacy trees” to understand previous generations 39:13 Transition to talking to Kirk R. Brown about his own life 42:54 Olmsted had a huge role in the National Park Movement and the founding of the Red Cross Foundation 45:30 Central Park was the greatest public works initiative since the pyramids, says Brown 48:18 Many people feel a deep, spiritual connection to nature connecting us all 50:53 Contact Brown via social media! Kirk references Gardencomm, the association for garden communicators. You can find more about the organization at https://gardencomm.org/. 52:28 Learn all about Serviceberry in this episode’s plant profile! 54:52 New in the garden: perfect gardening week ahead, harvesting garlic scapes and purple pea pods, cutting blooms in home garden, and more 55:48 Local gardening events: Rooting DC is back this year entirely virtual, master gardeners in the area are hosting online talks, and more! If you liked this episode, you may also enjoy listening to: ~ GardenDC Podcast Episode 78: Dumbarton Oaks

This episode is archived online at: 

We welcome your questions and comments! You can leave a voice mail message for us at: https://anchor.fm/gardendc/message Note that we may use these messages on a future episode.

And be sure to leave us a 5-star review on your favorite platform so other gardeners can find us too!

Episode Credits:

Host and Producer: Kathy Jentz

Show Notes: Tori Vandergriff

PIN THIS FOR LATER!


at
Labels: , ,

No comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)

Featured Post

Gifts for Gardeners ~ Gardening Gifts ~ Cool Gardening Gift Ideas

Today is Amazon Prime Day, so I thought I'd again share the garden products I use almost every day. These are the tried-and-true w...