News & Events
3.30.2010
Mariani Designs Display Garden for Chicago Botanic Garden’s 10th Annual Antique & Garden Fair
Mariani Landscape announced today the donation of the design and installation for a display garden at the Chicago Botanic Garden’s 10th Annual Antique & Garden Fair from April 16 to 18. The display garden, which is inspired by George and Martha Washington’s vegetable garden at Mount Vernon, is in keeping with the fair’s “Great American Gardens” theme and will show visitors how they can incorporate vegetable gardening into their own backyards.
“There’s something special about walking outside and seeing exactly where your food is coming from,” says landscape architect Carrie Woleben-Meade. “Our Mount Vernon-inspired vegetable garden will show visitors how to grow and propagate fruits and vegetables in a sustainable manner.”
The vegetable garden at Mount Vernon balances elegant design and food production with a charming approach. The garden is a magnificent example of a formal kitchen garden and showcases the abundance of fruits and vegetables indispensable to a healthy, sustainable lifestyle.
“We’re very excited about creating our own version of Mount Vernon’s vegetable garden here in Illinois,” says Woleben-Meade. “Like Mount Vernon, we will combine elegant design with functionality. We are even including a replica of Mount Vernon’s iconic dovecote.”
The 16’ x 16’ square foot vegetable garden will feature a dovecote, a historic building intended to house pigeons or doves, built by S.H. Bertucci Company. The design will also feature plants and vegetables including a variety of boxwoods, Red Giant Mustard Greens, Green and Red Leaf lettuces, Fennel, Lemon Thyme and a variety of cutting flowers.
The garden will be located at the Chicago Botanic Garden’s Regenstein Center Esplanade from April 16 to 18 from 10 am to 5 pm. Tickets are now available at http://www.chicagobotanic.org
