Flowers Personified

Also available for viewing courtesy of Botanicus and the Missouri Botanic Garden is a copy of Le Fleurs Animee s, c. 1840, a story about the...

Botanicus: books online from the Missouri Botanical Garden

The illustration from Bouteaux in the previous post is from Botanicus , the rare book collection of the Missouri Botanical Garden, which is ...

Characteristics of the formal French Garden

The garden depicted in the wallpaper of the previous post is classically French...compare it to the above illustration from Plans et dessins...

Garden History Wallpaper

from a 1933 House and Garden cover, courtesy of nostalgiaville . What sort of a garden would you say this is? Italian? French? American? Eng...

Ruth Moilliet's Garden Sculpture

executed in stainless steel and glass from the artist's statement: “In my work I reflect a childhood dream to be able to shrink in size,...

Gardens in Art History - Online at the Met

One of the difficulties of early garden history (pre-nineteenth century) is the lack of documentation. It is not simply the passage of time,...

Old and Beautiful garden stuff

Garden plaque from Kim Fiscus antiques in San Francisco , giant egg cup lead planter from Proler garden antiques , also in California. Bett...

New and beautiful garden stuff

Lighted flower pots by Rob Slewe at Bloom! (from Europe but I've also seen these on ebay...) and garden bench by Thomas Alken (via pan...

What a garden historian does

People tend to ask me lots of practical questions, about plants or landscape installation. Though I know some about those things, my skills ...

Philbrook garden history

The reason Italian villas (and Italianate gardens) built in the early twentieth century dot the Midwestern landscape like some alien species...

my first garden

Everybody knows a garden...quite simply a landscape that is in some way, more or less, intervened with--designed. But who planted it, and wh...

It's a small field

When I told people I was getting a master's degree in Garden History, their first response was usually to laugh. It does have something ...