Cool Garden Rooms. And Prophetic Chickens..the Garden History of Livia Drusilla

The heat has broken, just today, at last.  But watching my garden go yellow with fever over these past three weeks of 100+ degrees and rotis...

When there is no There there

(the "gardens of William Morris" at the Red House, Bexleyheath.  Little is known of Morris' actual garden at the site.) I'...

The Moor Park Apricot, part 1

Today, I bought a Moor Park apricot for my garden. "It was only the spring twelvemonth before Mr. Norris's death that we put in the...

Emily Dickinson's Herbarium

My nosegays are for Captives Dim – long expectant eyes – Fingers denied the plucking, Patient till Paradise – To such, if they sh'd whis...

Call for Applications: The 2010 ADAM Architecture Travel Scholarship

I mentioned in the last post that my investigations of the Art Deco garden were funded by a travel grant from Robert Adam Architects (now AD...

Man Ray in the Garden

The artist Man Ray is best known as an experimental photographer but figures in garden history for his documentation, both still and film, o...

Landscapes of the 1950s

Also, I'll be speaking about 'atomic gardens' at a study day on landscapes of the 1950s to be held at my alma mater, the Univers...