Interpreting the landscape

Sculpture by Alastair Heseletine .

Journal of Garden History and the Garden History Society

The other scholarly publication in our field is the Journal of Garden History, a publication of the Garden History Society . "Garden H...

Studies in the History of Gardens & Designed Landscapes: Special Issue on Botanical Gardens

I've been receiving some lovely emails lately from readers of the blog who are new to Garden History (thank you all!) and so will be pos...

Allegory of Botany and the Courtald's Digital Images

by Benjamin West, 18th C. from the Courtauld website, Art and Architecture . Search on 'gardens' for all sorts of delights. I think ...

Recommended Blog: Some Landscapes

Recently I've been perusing another blog, 'some-landscapes' . All about the connection between art in all its forms--poetry, pai...

Friday Feature Garden - Elsfield Manor, Oxford, England

The garden at Elsfield Manor is a good example of the layers often found in a historic landscape; layers which the garden historian must unt...

A Gardener's Memorial: Ted Darrah

I heard today that Ted Darrah had died. He had been the longtime head gardener at Christ Church, Oxford. When I met him he was retired but ...

Gardens (should be) for everyone

One of the less pleasant realizations of studying garden history is how much gardens have been the province of the wealthy few. Building a g...

Park Gardens

As part of the planning process for creating the new Orange County Great Park, the park Conservancy assembled this list of other parks of i...

Cal Lane's Garden Implements

Cal Lane, sculptor and welder, turns ordinary objects into lacy fantasies. With a blow torch. Read more in the New York Times

DIY Parterre de broderie

The embroidered parterre fell out of fashion for good reason...it is hard to think of another garden design so time-consuming and expensive ...