Crooked Forests

A forest of about 400 pine trees in Western Poland all grow with a 90 degree northward  bend at the base of their trunks.  The patch, within...

1960s Landscapes in the Help

Nearly a year ago, now, I got a request through the blog for more information about the early 1960s landscape, about which little (so far!) ...

Hay in the Landscape

I grew up with this painting on the wall of my parent's home;   a gigantic haybale constructed by my great-grandmother Rose's family...

Garden History Images of the Week: Mexican landscapes in the Codex pictorius Mexicanus of Ignacio Tirsch

These images are so beautiful that they actually make me feel the pangs of nostalgia--for a Mexico I never saw and never will see.  Circa 17...

Atomic Gardening lecture June 7, 2 pm

Dear readers, Just a quick note to let you know that I'll be speaking about the Atomic Gardens at the Garden Museum in London on June 7...

On Rainbow Fountains and Rainbow Portraits

Though I’m continuing work on the Atomic Gardens (and always working on Art Deco Gardens), I’m trying to time travel back from the twentieth...

The Landscape with Too Few Lovers

For your Valentine's Day, New Zealand artist Colin McMahon's "Landscape with Too Few Lovers", from his 1958 Northland Pa...

Garden History Image of the Week

A child's drawing of a sod-house homestead in Nebraska, c. 1885. [via the grovefamily genealogy site ] Corn in the front yard was not th...

The Garden that Climbs the Stairs: Verb Gardens

  I've been thinking lately about this garden, a temporary 2009 installation at BilbaoJardin by Balmori Associates of New York, because...