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unusual facts about Bartram's Garden


Bartram's Garden

Franklinia alatamaha - John and William Bartram discovered a small grove of this tree in October 1765 by Georgia's Altamaha River.


Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, Tiflis

Construction of the cathedral was launched six years later, April 16, 1871, in the upper part of Alexander’s Garden in Gunibsky Square (later known as Soborny Square, now part of Rustaveli Avenue).

Bartram Trail

Bartram Trail High School at St. Johns, Florida (just south of Jacksonville) is named for the scenic highway and Bartram's exploration route around the Northern St. Johns County area.

Bartram's Travels

In January 1776 Bartram returned to Georgia, shipped the last of his plant specimens to London from Savannah, and returned home to Philadelphia.

Camden Children's Garden

The facility includes indoor attractions such as the Philadelphia Eagles Four Seasons Butterfly House, Plaza de Aibonito, a Puerto Rican tropical greenhouse exhibit, and Benjamin Franklin’s Secret Garden and Workshop.

Clara Lipman

Lipman started in amateur theatre productions in Chicago before making her professional stage début at Niblo's Garden in New York City on November 30, 1885, as Nettie in the Kiralfy Brothers spectacular, The Rat Catcher (an adaptation of The Pied Piper of Hamelin).

Daubigny's Garden

The pastoral Auvers-sur-Oise region of hills, fields, gardens and cottages attracted artists to it and the surrounding area.

Dunedin Chinese Garden

The Dunedin Chinese Garden is designed as a late Ming/early Qing Scholar’s garden, and is separated from the rest of the city by a four metre perimeter wall.

Franklinia

After several years of study, William Bartram assigned the “rare and elegant flowering shrub,” to a new genus Franklinia, named in honor of his father's great friend Benjamin Franklin.

Hanlon-Lees

The newly expanded troupe made its American debut in 1858 at Niblo's Garden in New York City, and spent the next four decades touring the United States and Europe.

Humble Administrator's Garden

Named after a Chinese folk expression, "Where there are bamboo groves there are houses," and "With a Parasol tree (Firmiana simplex) in his yard, one is assured of a phoniex's coming and good fortune." It is a square pavilion with a hipped gable roofline and flying eves.

Named after a verse by Su Shi, "With whom shall I sit? the bright moon, refreshing breeze and me".

James Bartram

Bartram was born in the village of Aylmerton (in the parish of Erpingham) in Norfolk, England.

Joice Heth

when Barnum started to exhibit her on August 10, 1835, at Niblo's Garden in New York City.

Kenny Bartram

Kenny Bartram has signed on contract with KTM, which is the bike he has stuck to for a long time).

King's Garden

See King's Schools for the school in Seattle, United States, Fort Ticonderoga for the garden in New York State, and for the park in Stockholm, Sweden, see Kungsträdgården.

Laura Joyce Bell

Bell made her first notable appearance in New York in the spring of 1872 at Niblo's Garden performing in the “spectacle pantomime” Azeal, possibly based on the earlier musical by Daniel Auber, and afterward made a hit in the title role of the Edward E. Rice and J. Cheever Goodwin extravaganza, Evangeline, first played at the old Boston Globe Theatre on June 7, 1875 and reprised the following season at the Boston Museum.

Laurie Bartram

After Friday the 13th, Bartram directed and choreographed local theater productions, made costumes for numerous productions and did voice work for local businesses including WSET in Lynchburg, Virginia.

Lippy's Garden

The band consisted of David Milhous (drums and background vocals), his cousin Mark Bollinger (vocals and lead guitar), James Ross (keyboards), and Rob Salter (Bass).

Their debut album was The Etiquette and Economics of Escape, which was first played on local Los Angeles radio stations, including KLOS and KROQ-FM -- the band got an early break by knocking on the studio door at KROQ-FM and handing a demo tape to independent DJ Rodney Bingenheimer.

Michael O'Hearn

He has appeared in the movies Barbarian, Keeper of Time, and had a minor supporting role in Death Becomes Her, as well as starred as Clark Kent/Superman in the popular Sandy Collora fan film World's Finest (opposite Clark Bartram as Batman).

Nature's Garden: An Aid to Knowledge of our Wild Flowers and their Insect Visitors

The large showy blossom cannot but attract the passing bee, whose favorite color (according to Sir John Lubbock) it waves.

Neil Bartram

Bartram and Hill's musical Spin is part of the 2013 Signature Theatre season directed by Eric Schaeffer.

The Good Witch's Garden

Her boyfriend, Chief of Police Jake Russell (Chris Potter), and his kids, Brandon (Matthew Knight) and Lori (Hannah Endicott-Douglas), are happy to have Cassie in the neighborhood, but before long, a stranger named Nick (Rob Stewart) appears with papers entitling him to legal ownership of Grey House.

Varmint of Burke's Garden

To aid in the creature's capture, the board of supervisors of Tazewell County contacted Clell and Dale Lee, two of the best-known big-game hunters then active in the United States; their dogs were well known for being able to track most kinds of animals.

Vasili Kanidiadis

Vasili Kanidiadis is a Greek-Australian television personality, best known as the host of the Channel 31 and SBS TV gardening show, Vasili's Garden.

Vasili's Garden

Hosted by Vasili Kanidiadis, each episode of the show, which is unscripted and largely unedited, focuses on the plants and produce from the garden of a migrant family from Melbourne, with Kanidiadis emphasising traditional methods of gardening and Greek cuisine.

Vasili's Garden returned to Channel 31 & now moved to production of ABC studios in Southbank for late 2009 as a part of SBS of the show failed.

Ventnor City, New Jersey

Mrs. S. Bartram Richards, the wife of the secretary-treasurer of the land company, suggested the name "Ventnor" for the area then being developed by the Camden and Atlantic Land Company south of Atlantic City, having recently visited the seashore resort on the Isle of Wight with the same name.

Why Did She Go?

"Why Did She Go?" is the first single from the album Go and Ask Peggy for the Principal Thing by German britpop band Fool's Garden.

Zanthoxylum americanum

In 2012, a Pennsylvania distillery introduced a bitters called Bartram's Bitters that uses prickly ash bark as one of several botanical ingredients.


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