Commercial grower prefers cuttings for new plants - Recently I visited Pleasant View Gardens in Loudon, New Hampshire, a major grower for the plant brand known as Proven Winners. What amazed me is each year from December to March the…
We still grow Victorian annuals - In 1890 the garden writer, poet, and song writer from Wisconsin Eben E. Rexford [below] wrote a book called Home Floriculture. Eben E. Rexford (1888-1900) The James Vick Seed Company in Rochester, New York…
Old fashioned flower garden still rocks - Victorians loved flowers in all their color.Late nineteenth century garden writer and landscape manager for Central Park Samuel Parsons loved flowers. He wrote in his book Landscape Gardening, first published in 1891,…
Early American gardening centered on vegetables - In the first half of the nineteenth century gardeners focused on growing vegetables rather than cultivating a flower garden. Perhaps the emphasis on vegetable growing may have been related to the simple need…
Victorians loved cut flowers - The Victorian period in the nineteenth century ushered in a love for cut flowers from the garden. Here is a beautiful chromolithograph from William Rawson's seed catalog of 1888 called 'Gems from the Wild Garden.' The…