Humphrey Repton and Accessible Gardening History

"I have lived", said Mr. Humphrey Repton in 1816, "to see many of my plans beautifully realised, but many more cruelly marred...

More on Atomic Gardens

I know that when I am not blogging it must seem to my readers that I am not writing but indeed I am! My paper on Muriel Howorth, founder of...

Gardenhistorygirl is writing a book!

"A member of the Pole family at her desk C. 1806 at 14 St. James Square, Bristol" From the collection of Bristol Museums and Art G...

Words with a Garden History: Favela

Cnidoscolus quercifolius Note the spines... [source] Until this recent article in the Financial Times   I didn't know that the notorious...

Arborglyphs

image via yorkstories "N ay, I will try these verses, which lately I carved on the green bark of a beech-tree ... " Mopsus  (Virgi...

Into the Wild

"Beautiful nature" in the 18th century:  Pope's Garden at Twickenham, c.1730, by William Kent.  From the British Museum “Foll...

Zelda's Flowers

This past spring I provided some garden history background to the producers of the new Great Gatsby movie (who were lovely to work with), a...

Prairie Studies, J.E. Weaver

 The Nurture Studies reminded me of the story of J.E. Weaver, who I first read about in the excellent book Gardening with Prairie Plants by...

Nurture Studies, Diana Scherer

Photographer Diana Scherer grows her subject flowers from seed over a six-month period, confining their roots in a vase.  When it is remove...

Garden of Gold

It was Sir Walter Raleigh who got me started on the garden of gold (I am always chasing Sir Walter and his moonbow ).  His 1595 voyage to So...

Garden History Giveaway Winner!

Another favorite from Frances Benjamin Johnston...the 'House of Usefulness' school window at the National Cash Register Company in D...

Garden History Giveaway: Gardens for a Beautiful America, Frances Benjamin Johnston

I love the way the title of this book sits in American garden history.  America's strongest landscape tradition is not of its private ga...

Edward Steichen's Garden History

Edward Steichen is best known for his fashion photography--in the 1930s he was chief of photography for Condé Nast publications, which inclu...

Brancusi in the Garden

source There is one other thing I think of when I think of Romania and that is Brancusi.  In doing the research on Mogosoaia I ran across th...

Forgotten Gardens: Magosoaia

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania (Dor...