Mar
05
Located at Big Bone Gardens is the house that Dr. John E. Stevenson built around 1870. He was the physician at the Big Bone Springs when it was a popular resort. There is a stone root cellar in the hillside behind the house. The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in August 24, 2000.
Feb
19
At the “2006 Ohio Master Gardener Conference,” hosted by the Southeastern Ohio Master Gardeners and The Ohio State University Extension:
Mary Ellen Pesek has been creating water gardens and growing aquatic plants for over 20 years. She is a graduate of the Ohio State University with a BS in Horticulture/Horticulture therapy and is a registered Horticulture Therapist. Mary Ellen taught horticulture for many years in the Cincinnati Public Schools and is
currently an adjunct professor at The University of Cincinnati Clermont College. Along with husband, Mark Lawhorn, she owns Big Bone Gardens, a six acre display garden/nursery where they propagate and sell unusual perennials and aquatic plants.
Feb
18
Posted by Christine of Epiphany:
In a prior post last month, I talked about sensing God very strongly in one particular spot in the woods at Big Bone Gardens. The kind of thing where you’re walking along, and suddenly, you become aware, "hey~~ God’s here!"
I absorbed the moment, and then took a photo, knowing I would want to remember it, even if God’s presence didn’t show up on film.
This is the photo:
Feb
07
Big Bone Gardens is mentioned in “Kentucky: A Guide to Unique Places,” a book by Zoe Ayn Strecker. Here is the paragraph devoted to BBG:
Are you ready for lesson in botany? Directly across the road from the state park is Big Bone Gardens, a six acre pleasure garden and sales nursery owned by Mark Lawhorn and Mary Ellen Pesek. There are two big "twin" ponds, a bog area, two little ponds full of decorative aquatic plants that are for sale, and a super-duper campy concrete garden sculpture collection (baby deer and hoboes). Plant prices range from $1 to $50, and the varieties range from common native waterside grasses to Asian lotus plants.
Feb
07
Kentucky Life is an award-winning series celebrating the people and places of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. The show appears on KET, Kentucky’s public television network.
Big Bone Gardens appears on episode #301 of Kentucky Life. Here is a description of the episode: “Louisville sculptor Barney Bright, known for his memorial works; Big Bone Gardens in Union; and the Cane Ridge Revival, a 19th-century camp meeting that profoundly influenced American religious life. A 1997 KET production hosted by Byron Crawford.”
