Garden History Subscriptions

Subscriptions are another easy gift choice for the budding garden historian...I've already mentioned the journal of the Garden History S...

Garden History books for Christmas

I've had a request for suggestions as to garden history books for Christmas gift-giving, and am much behind on answering it. But there...

Speaking Picture Gardens

The emblem is thought to have its roots in the impresa; that device by which people of wealth created a peculiarly personal mythology by se...

How to Grow Cabbages and Cauliflowers Most Profitably

Those inclined towards horticultural and agricultural history will be pleased to find a very thorough bibliography devoted to the History of...

Garden History Groups in the USA

For those of you wishing you were in London to volunteer with the Parks and Gardens trust, there are a few local garden history groups here ...

Garden History Volunteers needed and the City of London's Images at Collage

For my London friends, from ParkBench London "The London Parks & Gardens Trust is looking for volunteers to expand the information ...

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 ...

Defiant Gardens: Making Gardens in Wartime by Kenneth Helphand

Re my earlier post on the meaning of gardens : few gardens are so meaningful as those made under the most difficult of circumstances. The co...

And speaking of old garden books...

The catalogue that makes my knees go weak is that of Hinck and Wall , antiquarian booksellers with a specialty in garden history. (They also...

Previous Art Installation in Madison Park and the New York Public Library Image Collection

A previous art installation at Madison Park was this high-rise birdhouse, from an 1871 print in the collection of the New York Public Librar...

Journal of Garden History and the Garden History Society

The other scholarly publication in our field is the Journal of Garden History, a publication of the Garden History Society . "Garden H...

Studies in the History of Gardens & Designed Landscapes: Special Issue on Botanical Gardens

I've been receiving some lovely emails lately from readers of the blog who are new to Garden History (thank you all!) and so will be pos...

Allegory of Botany and the Courtald's Digital Images

by Benjamin West, 18th C. from the Courtauld website, Art and Architecture . Search on 'gardens' for all sorts of delights. I think ...

Recommended Blog: Some Landscapes

Recently I've been perusing another blog, 'some-landscapes' . All about the connection between art in all its forms--poetry, pai...

Park Gardens

As part of the planning process for creating the new Orange County Great Park, the park Conservancy assembled this list of other parks of i...

Botanicus: books online from the Missouri Botanical Garden

The illustration from Bouteaux in the previous post is from Botanicus , the rare book collection of the Missouri Botanical Garden, which is ...

Gardens in Art History - Online at the Met

One of the difficulties of early garden history (pre-nineteenth century) is the lack of documentation. It is not simply the passage of time,...