What is the International Waterlily & Water Gardening Society? (IWGS)
Earlier this year I had the opportunity to join the board of the International Waterlily & Water Gardening Society (IWGS). What is the IWGS? It is an organization much like […]
The Business Down Under (Waterlily Nursery in Australia)
For water gardeners winter is usually a dead time unless you’re lucky enough to have a heated greenhouse. Even then, chores are minimal leaving lots of time for celebrating the […]
The First American Water Gardens (Rice Cultivation History in the South)
The first American water gardens may have been purely practical and very profitable. Excluding the Chinampa (floating islands) of Mezo-America, the first plantings in North America to qualify as water […]
Macabre History of Cheesman Park and Denver Botanic Gardens
To give you some background about the macabre history of Denver Botanic Gardens, I did some research online and found this great article from Kelly Jensen of KUSA/9 News published […]
Hybridizing Color – Two Men in 1889 Changed Painting and Water Gardening in the 20th Century
How the chance encounter of two men in 1889 changed both painting and water gardening in the Twentieth century The crossing of their interests, a fertilization of dissimilar backgrounds and […]
History of the Colorado Water Garden Society
A water garden society – in Colorado’s Mile High City? A few years back this question was asked by many people around the United States. Before long the society became […]
History of Water Gardening Span Over 100 years in Colorado.
Viewing through the window to the past, the beauty of water gardening appeared in Colorado about the turn of the last century Written history, in word and pictures, tells us […]
CWGS Volunteers at Denver Botanic Gardens
Volunteers from the Colorado Water Garden Society provide invaluable help in the water gardens at Denver Botanic Gardens from early spring through fall each year. In 2019, CWGS volunteers helped […]
Chinampas Floating Gardens of Meso-America
Before the arrival of Europeans, even before the rise of Aztec culture, the Xochimilco people of Mexico’s great central valley developed a unique strategy for food production. Exploiting the large […]
Competitive Beauty in Water Gardening
As in other fields, competition breeds change In Victorian England, competition drove almost every aspect of society. Competition between manufacturers stoked the industrial boom. Competition with waning empires developed profitable […]