Garden History Image of the Week

A child's drawing of a sod-house homestead in Nebraska, c. 1885. [via the grovefamily genealogy site ] Corn in the front yard was not th...

The Garden that Climbs the Stairs: Verb Gardens

  I've been thinking lately about this garden, a temporary 2009 installation at BilbaoJardin by Balmori Associates of New York, because...

Modern Pressed Flowers

Via dezeen , the timeless art of pressed flowers transformed into three dimensions by designer Ignacio Canales Aracil: "The flowers are...

Georgian Shrubberies and Google Ngrams

Shrubberies at Carlton House as engraved by Woollett, c. 1760 I work some in the eighteenth-century but tend to find it tiresome because thi...

Atomic Gardens

In March 1959 an unusual group of scientists, government officials, and lesser worthies assembled for a dinner party in the dining hall of t...

A Girl's Garden, Robert Frost

Vincent van Gogh. Memory of the Garden at Etten (Women of Arles), 1888.  Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg.  I have been singing in my unive...

The Garden History of Heiress Huguette Clark, Part Two

Sometime on their coast to coast travels, the family stopped in at the rootstock of their great wealth: Butte, Montana. They were photograph...