Garden of Gold

It was Sir Walter Raleigh who got me started on the garden of gold (I am always chasing Sir Walter and his moonbow ).  His 1595 voyage to So...

Garden History Giveaway Winner!

Another favorite from Frances Benjamin Johnston...the 'House of Usefulness' school window at the National Cash Register Company in D...

Garden History Giveaway: Gardens for a Beautiful America, Frances Benjamin Johnston

I love the way the title of this book sits in American garden history.  America's strongest landscape tradition is not of its private ga...

Edward Steichen's Garden History

Edward Steichen is best known for his fashion photography--in the 1930s he was chief of photography for Condé Nast publications, which inclu...

Brancusi in the Garden

source There is one other thing I think of when I think of Romania and that is Brancusi.  In doing the research on Mogosoaia I ran across th...

Forgotten Gardens: Magosoaia

Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song, A medley of extemporanea; And love is a thing that can never go wrong; And I am Marie of Romania (Dor...

Guildhall Statues in the Garden

Images from the Museum of London website I’m in London several times a year but it was only on my last trip that I visited the Museum of Lon...