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...