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ENJOY! MARCH 2015
Garden developments spearhead museum’s spring season By Kevin Green
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or residents, gardeners or history buffs, the forthcoming spring season at the Museum of the Shenandoah Valley will feature a bevy of exhibitions, events and workshops. Starting April 1, the museum will give the public its first season-long experience of fresh renovations and additions to the Glen Burnie Home and Gardens. Reopened as a public residence last summer, Glen Burnie will come equipped with a new spring garden as well as new exhibits for this season - among many more offerings. Julie Armel, the museumʼs deputy director of communications, said the new spring garden “is the first garden to be added to the formal Glen Burnie Gardens since the site opened.” In preparation for the opening of the spring garden, Armel explained that museum staff “planted more than 13,000 bulbs” last fall. Of those, Perry Mathewes, the museumʼs director of gardens, said 10,000 daffodils were added to the new garden. The garden, Mathewes added, is a “very large, linear garden. Itʼs very long and narrow; itʼs only about a couple of hundred feet wide at the widest.”
Water from the town run cascades over this small waterfall outside Glen Burnie in Winchester. The original house dates back to 1794. Rich Cooley/Daily “Thatʼs why we thought the house was a perfect venue for the botanical exhibition.”
This spring, the museum will also be opening the first in a series of exhibitions in the drawing room of the Glen Burnie House on April 1 with “The Beauty of Botany.”
Armel also noted that people visiting the museum or, more specifically, the gardens during the month of April, can expect to see “lots of work ongoing.”
The exhibition, Armel added, will feaThe on-going work has also included ture “22 botanical-themed works a replanting and reconfiguration of primarily watercolors - from seven the museumʼs rose garden, which botanical artists.” Armel said the museum expects to “Gardens are such a large part of be completed with the “first blooms this museumʼs complex and we sometime in June.” thought … visitors would enjoy see“Weʼve spent the winter increasing ing them in the house setting,” she accessibility. Thereʼs spaces that, for said, “And then have the ability to walk out of the drawing room into the the first time, are accessible to all visitors,” Armel said. gardens here.” “Thereʼs many roses that are in what we call a rose walkway, and they really werenʼt thriving. They really werenʼt getting the sun that they On top of that, Armel said, “Eight of needed,” Armel said. “Weʼre moving the plant subjects featured in the artthem to a larger garden.” work are found in the Glen Burnie She said there will be “hundreds of Gardens. Armel added, “What ʻBeauty in Botanyʼ will illustrate is the versatility of … the new Glen Burnie.”
Horticulturist Chantal Ludder checks on some pansies inside the greenhouse at Glen Burnie. Rich Cooley/Daily new plantings” as well as increased accessibility for visitors.
“when itʼs all said and done.”
The upcoming season will also mark Mathewes indicated that there will be the museumʼs 10th anniversary. SEE MUSEUM, A6 about 300 roses of various kinds
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