Flowers Personified

Also available for viewing courtesy of Botanicus and the Missouri Botanic Garden is a copy of Le Fleurs Animee s, c. 1840, a story about the...

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 ...

Characteristics of the formal French Garden

The garden depicted in the wallpaper of the previous post is classically French...compare it to the above illustration from Plans et dessins...

Garden History Wallpaper

from a 1933 House and Garden cover, courtesy of nostalgiaville . What sort of a garden would you say this is? Italian? French? American? Eng...

Ruth Moilliet's Garden Sculpture

executed in stainless steel and glass from the artist's statement: “In my work I reflect a childhood dream to be able to shrink in size,...

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,...

Old and Beautiful garden stuff

Garden plaque from Kim Fiscus antiques in San Francisco , giant egg cup lead planter from Proler garden antiques , also in California. Bett...