But if a pilgrimage to the Bronx isn't on the itinerary, you can peruse an array of outdoor ferns for sale at Fancy Fronds Nursery (fancyfronds.com/list.cfm) and Foliage Gardens (foliagegardens.com).
SAL SADEK stood in the open-air patio of his 15-year-old flower shop, Nature's Foliage and Gardens, a tall, solid man oblivious to the late-winter chill.
I would hunker down in the garden foliage under the windows and listen to the conversation.
Her first experiments in painting captured the flora and foliage in the garden of her family's home.
A lush bank of garden foliage outside, dripping in the rain, seems to enclose and give privacy to this light-filled, upper ground-floor room, intensifying the silence.
At 11, there will be a talk on the 10 most common gardening mistakes, and at 1, a tour of the fall foliage in the gardens and activities for children.
Long ago, in the 19th century, the ring road's wide expanse was home to verdant foliage and impressive gardens, but Stalin's replanning of the Soviet capital saw the greenery disappear in favour of the current concrete hoop, lined for much of its length with overbearing Stalinist architecture.
Everywhere, gardeners in uniform trim hedges, prune the exotic foliage and keep the garden paths clear.
Some of the more ornate canopies are made by floral designers and resemble gazebos festooned with enough foliage to fill a garden.
Her paintings, done in a folkish, faux-naïf style somewhat reminiscent of that used by Marsden Hartley in his 1930's renditions of life with a seafaring family in Nova Scotia, have an earthy, here-and-now quality, with details, like wallpaper patterns, foliage, stones in a garden wall painstakingly delineated.
Corydalis C. flexuosa 'China Blue' (15cm, flowers May), with its delicate, tubular, baby blue flowers and soft, ferny foliage will be in garden centres any day now – it can be tricky to grow, so this is the best way to buy it.
