For the Garden Historian who has everything...

...the Porter Garden Telescope.  Russell Porter was an artist, engineer, and amateur astronomer/telescope maker, and in the 1920s in Springf...

Landscapes of George Tanaka

George Tanaka (1912-1982), born in Vancouver to Japanese parents, was largely self-taught.  He apprenticed with a Nisei gardener, and then s...

Garden History Quote of the Week - Georgia O'Keefe on Flowers

"Everyone has many associations with a flower--the idea of flowers. You put out your hand to touch the flower--lean forward to smell it...

Patrick Dougherty's Stickworks

Landscape artist Patrick Dougherty has a new photographic catalogue of his extraordinary creations, available on his website . I was going t...

Garden History Image of the Week

found at the blog takebigbites

Garden History Image of the Week: Jardin Botanico, Asuncion, Paraguay

Found while flea-marketing with my sister...this c. 1920s image of the rose garden at the Botanical garden of Asuncion. On the back it reads...

I Could Do This! Copper Pavers and Silver Orbs in the Pond

Inspired by two other installations at the Chatsworth exhibit/sale for the uber rich... Copper pavers: I couldn't afford solid copper ...