The Viele Map

"In connection with this brief account of the origin of the Central Park, it seems appropriate here to notice the topographical atlas o...

Garden History image of the week...Kingsnorth Gardens, Folkestone in miniature

From the Science and Society Photographic Archives, originally published in the Daily Herald in the 1950s: ‘Mr and Mrs Grace of Kingsnorth G...

Garden History image of the week...Victorian plant markers

From a sale of Victoriana (including some garden items) by Simon Chorley auctioneers . I must start saying that my plants were 'found in...

Anne Roberts, Feir Mill Designs

A modern garden artist who worked in the tradition of Thomas Wright until her recent death was Canadian Anne Roberts, whose Toronto design s...

Thomas Wright, Arbours and Grottos

I've just walked back from the library with my latest treasure. One of the benefits of working for a university is the ability to get al...

The first shall be last and the last shall be first,

and the winner of the Garden Bench giveaway is one Long Haul Trucker, who sent in a comment a mere 2.5 hours before the contest ended! That...