As I have written before on this blog, I like to use what I am currently reading for a new post . Just picked up the book Grounds for Pleasure: Four Centuries of the American Garden by Denise Otis. The…
I just read several blog posts about the Landreth Seed Company, started in 1784, the oldest American seed business. It's quite possible the Company may fold if it does not straighten out some financial matters by September 30. Hard to…
When I started this blog a year ago, I said that I would publish posts that reflected what I was currently reading on the topic of American gardening and the English garden tradition. Just finished the Master's thesis of landscape…
Though we may think we are original in our garden design or garden style, the media often dictate garden fashion. Philadelphia nurseryman Thomas Meehan wrote in 1870 in his magazine Gardener's Monthly "We are advocates of fashions in flowers as…
I just picked up New Hampshire poet Celia Thaxter's book An Island Garden. I wanted to read it again. Perhaps I was looking for inspiration. Somehow Celia Thaxter (1835-1894) represents the Victorian gardener in late nineteenth century America. The love…