Roundhay Garden Scene, 1888

Did you know the earliest surviving motion picture takes place in a garden?  No, nor did I! All of 2.11 seconds long (when viewed at modern ...

Updates on Bellwood Hall, Upson County, Georgia

Southern historians are a nice group of people...I've been the recipient of several updates and new information on Bellwood, the Georgia...

Garden History Image of the Week: Garden of Caterpillars by Ernst Kreidolf

from the online exhibition of 'Creepy-Crawlies' at Princeton University's Cotsen Children's Library: "This is the cate...

Forest of Angels

A heavenly landscape for this day of angels...Charles Voysey's "Angelic Forest", c. 1927.  Merry Christmas to all!

Archives of American Gardens at Flickr

Impossibly lovely images from the Archives of American Gardens.  A small selection of their 8000 images, including these historic glass lant...

The WaterLandscape of Rouen in 1525

Most of us (most of us reading this blog, anyway) live in a time and place where the flow of clean water on demand--for washing, drinking, s...

For the Garden Historian who has Almost Everything

And if like me your favorite garden historian doesn't have quite everything (but is rich, rich in friends!), then perhaps something sout...