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...

Hortus Palatinus Update

A German friend from Heidelberg has just informed me that plans to re-create the Hortus Palatinus are under consideration by her city. At f...

Because it's Beautiful...Boston Parks

Used to be 25 cents, now it's $135 from rulon-miller books. "Boston Park guide including the municipal and metropolitan systems of ...

Guevrekian's Disco Ball

The artist Gabriel Guevrekian's garden for the 1925 Paris Exposition des Arts Decoratifs, from which the 'Art Deco' design movem...

A Modern Treillage

London-based designers Superblue were inspired by the organic forms of hedgerows to create a 'soft' boundary structure--an undulatin...

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 ...

Garden for an American Craftsman House

The bungalows from the early twentieth century (c. 1890-1930) we in America refer to as 'Craftsman' houses are often now, in the twe...