Comments on: Queen For A Day http://blog.metmuseum.org/cloistersgardens/2010/07/05/queen-for-a-day/ Mon, 20 May 2013 02:21:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Jay Chua http://blog.metmuseum.org/cloistersgardens/2010/07/05/queen-for-a-day/comment-page-1/#comment-28668 Jay Chua Thu, 22 Jul 2010 21:45:50 +0000 http://blog.metmuseum.org/cloistersgardens/?p=4902#comment-28668 Jane looks fabulous in the pic:) Day lilies is one of my favorite flowers all time.. I was at the SF botanical garden last week, and did get a chance to take a closer encounter with these beautiful flowers..they look even nicer under the sunshine. Yellow & red are my favorite color :) Jay Jane looks fabulous in the pic:)

Day lilies is one of my favorite flowers all time..

I was at the SF botanical garden last week, and did get a chance to take a closer encounter with these beautiful flowers..they look even nicer under the sunshine. Yellow & red are my favorite color :)

Jay

]]> By: Deirdre Larkin http://blog.metmuseum.org/cloistersgardens/2010/07/05/queen-for-a-day/comment-page-1/#comment-28582 Deirdre Larkin Thu, 15 Jul 2010 14:39:17 +0000 http://blog.metmuseum.org/cloistersgardens/?p=4902#comment-28582 Hello, Franco---Your plant is the mayapple, (<em>Podophyllum peltatum</em>), commonly found in moist woods throughout the eastern United States and Canada, west to Minnesota, and south to Florida and Texas. According to Maude Grieve, it was used by native Americans as an emetic and a vermifuge. Both the leaves and the fruit are poisonous. A gastro-intestinal irritant, mayapple is a drastic purgative in small doses, and fatal in large ones. It was listed in the British Pharmocopeia by the 1860s, and the dried rhizomes, from which a resin was extracted, still had a place in the American drug trade in the first half of the twentieth century. According to the 1930 edition of <em>The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture</em>, extract of podophyllum was still common in drugstores. The mayapple is also known as American mandrake, perhaps because of the many thick tubers that form its root system, and the pulpy yellow fruit, which ripens in May. (Mayapple is in the barberry family and is botanically unrelated to the true mandrake.) A number of sources say that the pretty, nodding white flower has an unpleasant smell, but I can't say that I have ever noticed it. An attractive plant that is easily established, the mayapple is often grown in wild gardens; it prefers a moist and shady situation. A friend of mine was once given some mayapples by a fellow gardener. She carefully planted them along a streambed in her woodland garden---when she got up from her knees and looked behind her, there was mayapple growing as far as she could see! Do let me know when next you visit The Cloisters--- Deirdre Hello, Franco—Your plant is the mayapple, (Podophyllum peltatum), commonly found in moist woods throughout the eastern United States and Canada, west to Minnesota, and south to Florida and Texas. According to Maude Grieve, it was used by native Americans as an emetic and a vermifuge. Both the leaves and the fruit are poisonous. A gastro-intestinal irritant, mayapple is a drastic purgative in small doses, and fatal in large ones. It was listed in the British Pharmocopeia by the 1860s, and the dried rhizomes, from which a resin was extracted, still had a place in the American drug trade in the first half of the twentieth century. According to the 1930 edition of The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, extract of podophyllum was still common in drugstores.

The mayapple is also known as American mandrake, perhaps because of the many thick tubers that form its root system, and the pulpy yellow fruit, which ripens in May. (Mayapple is in the barberry family and is botanically unrelated to the true mandrake.) A number of sources say that the pretty, nodding white flower has an unpleasant smell, but I can’t say that I have ever noticed it.

An attractive plant that is easily established, the mayapple is often grown in wild gardens; it prefers a moist and shady situation. A friend of mine was once given some mayapples by a fellow gardener. She carefully planted them along a streambed in her woodland garden—when she got up from her knees and looked behind her, there was mayapple growing as far as she could see!

Do let me know when next you visit The Cloisters—

Deirdre

]]> By: Deirdre Larkin http://blog.metmuseum.org/cloistersgardens/2010/07/05/queen-for-a-day/comment-page-1/#comment-28580 Deirdre Larkin Thu, 15 Jul 2010 13:45:24 +0000 http://blog.metmuseum.org/cloistersgardens/?p=4902#comment-28580 Hello, Lauren---It's good to know that Jane is flourishing in the gardens of her friends, however far from The Cloisters. Wishing you and the boys every good thing, Deirdre Hello, Lauren—It’s good to know that Jane is flourishing in the gardens of her friends, however far from The Cloisters.

Wishing you and the boys every good thing,
Deirdre

]]> By: Deirdre Larkin http://blog.metmuseum.org/cloistersgardens/2010/07/05/queen-for-a-day/comment-page-1/#comment-28579 Deirdre Larkin Thu, 15 Jul 2010 13:43:37 +0000 http://blog.metmuseum.org/cloistersgardens/?p=4902#comment-28579 Hi, Barbara---I don't often get to make wreaths or garlands in summer, but I always enjoy doing it. Hi, Barbara—I don’t often get to make wreaths or garlands in summer, but I always enjoy doing it.

]]> By: Franco R http://blog.metmuseum.org/cloistersgardens/2010/07/05/queen-for-a-day/comment-page-1/#comment-28552 Franco R Tue, 13 Jul 2010 17:18:15 +0000 http://blog.metmuseum.org/cloistersgardens/?p=4902#comment-28552 Hello Deirdre, what a great and personal account! I have been reading the blog since 2008, and what enjoyment it brings to me. The Cloister, the Heather Garden, and Ft. Tryon Park are together my favorite place in New York, funny how that works out that my favorite place in the city is a place away from city. I try to make it up at least once every month or two. There is a plant I have seen around for years, and as well around the Cloisters and in the Heather Garden and park, and I have been wanting to know for so long what it is called. I will attach two images I took up there to help show you the plant in mind. I hope you are able to help me learn what it is! It's conditions seem to usually be partial to full shade, moist, and Northern climates, and I see it growing in the Spring and early Summer. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v32/Barberry17/DSC09649.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v32/Barberry17/DSC08757.jpg Thank you again for all of the wonderful posts on the blog, and I look forward to all of those to come! Hello Deirdre, what a great and personal account! I have been reading the blog since 2008, and what enjoyment it brings to me. The Cloister, the Heather Garden, and Ft. Tryon Park are together my favorite place in New York, funny how that works out that my favorite place in the city is a place away from city. I try to make it up at least once every month or two. There is a plant I have seen around for years, and as well around the Cloisters and in the Heather Garden and park, and I have been wanting to know for so long what it is called. I will attach two images I took up there to help show you the plant in mind. I hope you are able to help me learn what it is! It’s conditions seem to usually be partial to full shade, moist, and Northern climates, and I see it growing in the Spring and early Summer.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v32/Barberry17/DSC09649.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v32/Barberry17/DSC08757.jpg

Thank you again for all of the wonderful posts on the blog, and I look forward to all of those to come!

]]> By: Barbara Bell http://blog.metmuseum.org/cloistersgardens/2010/07/05/queen-for-a-day/comment-page-1/#comment-28531 Barbara Bell Sun, 11 Jul 2010 21:53:07 +0000 http://blog.metmuseum.org/cloistersgardens/?p=4902#comment-28531 The headpiece Jane was wearing for that photo is beautiful, looks like your handiwork, Deirdre. The headpiece Jane was wearing for that photo is beautiful, looks like your handiwork, Deirdre.

]]> By: Lauren Jackson-Beck http://blog.metmuseum.org/cloistersgardens/2010/07/05/queen-for-a-day/comment-page-1/#comment-28522 Lauren Jackson-Beck Sun, 11 Jul 2010 00:33:28 +0000 http://blog.metmuseum.org/cloistersgardens/?p=4902#comment-28522 I remember that day very well! Jane was so very happy! She picked out a beautiful day lily. The Jane Hayward Day Lily is blooming well in our home garden. It is very strong and vibrant--just like Jane was! It is a fitting memory to Jane that her day lily is at The Cloisters. Jane devoted her life and her love for Medieval Art to The Cloisters and The Metropolitan Museum of Art. What a wonderful legacy for her and for the museum! I remember that day very well! Jane was so very happy! She picked out a beautiful day lily. The Jane Hayward Day Lily is blooming well in our home garden. It is very strong and vibrant–just like Jane was! It is a fitting memory to Jane that her day lily is at The Cloisters. Jane devoted her life and her love for Medieval Art to The Cloisters and The Metropolitan Museum of Art. What a wonderful legacy for her and for the museum!

]]> By: Nancy Heraud http://blog.metmuseum.org/cloistersgardens/2010/07/05/queen-for-a-day/comment-page-1/#comment-28509 Nancy Heraud Fri, 09 Jul 2010 16:11:55 +0000 http://blog.metmuseum.org/cloistersgardens/?p=4902#comment-28509 I'm sorry we didn't meet when I was there before, Deirdre. I will have to make sure you know when I'm coming to see the gardens again! I’m sorry we didn’t meet when I was there before, Deirdre. I will have to make sure you know when I’m coming to see the gardens again!

]]> By: Deirdre Larkin http://blog.metmuseum.org/cloistersgardens/2010/07/05/queen-for-a-day/comment-page-1/#comment-28498 Deirdre Larkin Thu, 08 Jul 2010 16:56:04 +0000 http://blog.metmuseum.org/cloistersgardens/?p=4902#comment-28498 I'd be happy to introduce you! I’d be happy to introduce you!

]]> By: Nancy Heraud http://blog.metmuseum.org/cloistersgardens/2010/07/05/queen-for-a-day/comment-page-1/#comment-28484 Nancy Heraud Wed, 07 Jul 2010 00:17:45 +0000 http://blog.metmuseum.org/cloistersgardens/?p=4902#comment-28484 Hope to see 'Jane Hayward' in person one day soon! Hope to see ‘Jane Hayward’ in person one day soon!

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