Modern Pressed Flowers

Via dezeen , the timeless art of pressed flowers transformed into three dimensions by designer Ignacio Canales Aracil: "The flowers are...

Georgian Shrubberies and Google Ngrams

Shrubberies at Carlton House as engraved by Woollett, c. 1760 I work some in the eighteenth-century but tend to find it tiresome because thi...

Atomic Gardens

In March 1959 an unusual group of scientists, government officials, and lesser worthies assembled for a dinner party in the dining hall of t...

A Girl's Garden, Robert Frost

Vincent van Gogh. Memory of the Garden at Etten (Women of Arles), 1888.  Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg.  I have been singing in my unive...

The Garden History of Heiress Huguette Clark, Part Two

Sometime on their coast to coast travels, the family stopped in at the rootstock of their great wealth: Butte, Montana. They were photograph...

The Garden History of Heiress Huguette Clark, Part One

There’s been a kerfuffle on the internet lately about Huguette Clark, the still-living daughter of a copper baron who was eligible for servi...

Found Functions: Math in the Garden

  Searching for fractals in the landscape is by now common, but Nikki Graziano , a student in both math and photography at the Rochester Ins...

Cool Garden Rooms. And Prophetic Chickens..the Garden History of Livia Drusilla

The heat has broken, just today, at last.  But watching my garden go yellow with fever over these past three weeks of 100+ degrees and rotis...

When there is no There there

(the "gardens of William Morris" at the Red House, Bexleyheath.  Little is known of Morris' actual garden at the site.) I'...

The Moor Park Apricot, part 1

Today, I bought a Moor Park apricot for my garden. "It was only the spring twelvemonth before Mr. Norris's death that we put in the...

Emily Dickinson's Herbarium

My nosegays are for Captives Dim – long expectant eyes – Fingers denied the plucking, Patient till Paradise – To such, if they sh'd whis...