After several years in England nineteenth century Quaker banker Joseph Shipley (1795-1867) returned to his home town of Wilmington, Delware in 1851. He loved the house that he had in England called Wyngote with its English garden. This painting from 1840…
As I read nineteenth century American seed and nursery catalogs in research for my book America's Romance with the English Garden, I often saw an advertisement for a lawn mower included in the catalog. The person who was using the…
I just returned from Milwaukee. The golf course across from my hotel there showed the most beautiful green hilly contours of a well-kept lawn, but no dandelions. Whenever I drove around the city neighborhoods, however, I saw dandelions on many…
In 1904 Liberty Hyde Bailey served as a dean of the newly-formed New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell. Bailey who received his early training in botany had also worked with Professor Asa Gray from Harvard. In the classic three-volume reference…
North Creek Nurseries offers a plant called Meehania cordata or Meehan's mint. Barry Glick from Sunshine Farm and Garden first told me about this plant in an email several years ago. He mentioned the bright colorful flowers of blue. This…