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...

Printing from the Garden, Then and Now

"Capturing the exact details of a plant or insect by printing directly from the natural object has been a goal of printers for hundreds...

Garden Bookcases

from 'Patio Gardens', by Helen Morgenthau Fox, 1929: "In Spain there is a unique garden ornament not found in any other lands; ...

Japanese Bonsai, 1848

From the special collections of the National Agriculture Library of the US Department of Agriculture, beautiful images of Japanese bonsai f...

I could do this! The Home Depot sculptures of Stefanie Nagorka

From the New York Times: "In spring 2002, the sculptor Stefanie Nagorka was walking the aisles of Home Depot in Clifton, looking for c...

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...

Fractals in the Garden

[the leaf] [the Mandelbrot set] Given the amount of time that I must currently spend in the lab, (and I do in fact write this from beside th...