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...

Map Regressions, Time Travel and the Mikhailovsky Garden

The Summer Gardens and the Mars Field. A project of architect J-B. Leblond, 1716-1717 The general layout of the Mikhailovsky Garden and the...

The Before and After Landscapes of Humphrey Repton

Long before cable TV popularized instant makeovers of houses, gardens, wardrobes, bodies and souls, Humphrey Repton knew the power of the ...

Green Roofs Now and Then

Green roofs c. 1728 (the Hermitage in Queen Caroline's gardens at Richmond, later to become Kew), 1797 (location unknown, from the NYPL ...

Friday Feature Garden - Elsfield Manor, Oxford, England

The garden at Elsfield Manor is a good example of the layers often found in a historic landscape; layers which the garden historian must unt...