Goddess Flora protects flowers. Recently I saw the film Wonder Woman. The superhero's name was Diana Prince, or rather Princess Diana, daughter of Hippolyta, queen of the Amazons. I loved this fantasy movie built on a comic book heroine. I saw some…
Nineteenth century Wisconsin Hort Society encouraged English garden design. The English garden with its lawn, curved path, trees to line the property and kitchen garden out back had become the fashion on the American east coast throughout the nineteenth century.…
Boston Flower Show honors Capability Brown. Last week the Boston Flower and Garden Show honored England's eighteenth century gardener to the King, Lancelot Capability Brown. For months Brown has been in the news quite a bit because 2016 was his three…
Loudon befriended early American seedsman. Writer and horticulturist John Claudius Loudon (1783-1843) influenced the development of the English garden during the first half of the nineteenth century. He is sometimes referred to as the 'father of the English garden.' Loudon…
In the late nineteenth century English garden writer William Robinson and garden designer Gertrude Jekyll helped to popularise less formal gardens in their many books and magazine articles. They sought to encourage the cottage garden style among their many readers. Thus…