Hidcote Manor in England has its own rhetoric, dividing the garden into separate rooms. Landscape architect Anne Whiston Spirn in her book The Language of Landscape wrote “Landscape is a play with many actors–flowers, people, trees, rocks–who come and go across…
You see this lake in the middle of the Forest Hills Cemetery, designed in the English picturesque view. You may think of a cemetery as a sad place, and therefore you visit seldom. That was not the case in the…
Perhaps you like the well trimmed look in the garden. Shrubs must be a certain look, the lawn cut a particular way, perennials cut back after they bloom, and trees trimmed to control their growth. The trimming in the landscape…
Art expresses the colors of nature in this 1888 catalog of American seedsman W. W. Rawson, Boston. The fact that you garden is amazing in a society like ours where immediate gratification is the rule. You know that gardening makes…
Boston ivy growing on a wall in my garden in the Northeast. You like to see vines in the garden. They add that vertical dimension that contrasts so well with your flowerbeds and containers. You probably have your favotite vine.…