The weather here in New England rose to an unusual 60 to 70 degrees a couple of times this past week. One morning I woke up to see on the lawn my favorite little yellow welcome to spring, the winter…
The story goes that a few years ago right after Martha Stewart wrote about hydrangeas in her magazine, garden centers around the country couldn't keep the plant in stock. Garden fashion according to the media inspired those gardeners who wanted…
I found another amazing photo of a ninteenth century California garden in Maureen Gilmer's book Redwoods and Roses. It too shows how nineteenth century California landscapes reflected the English garden style. I have included the illustration here. Notice the two…
Tom Carter in his book The Victorian Garden wrote: "The bedding-out system was an indespensable part of the high Victorian style of gardening which became first established in the 1850s." The Missouri Botanical Garden today features a bedding-out garden area. Bedding-out,…
Garden historian Thomas A.Brown published a wonderful collection of California nurseries from the nineteenth century . The seed and nusery business began on the West Coast right after California joined the United States in 1850 . To meet the increase in population…