In spite of all our investment of time and energy into social media, it's still fun to receive a garden catalog in the mail. So many garden writers over the years mention the winter ritual of finding such a catalog,…
Garden historian Judith Tankard just wrote a book review of my new book about James Vick called All about Flowers. It appeared in the international quarterly garden journal Hortus. I am including the review here as this week's blog post.…
I just came across an online horticultural journal called simply Journal of Floriculture and Landscaping. It is a peer-reviewed journal that covers two of my favorite topics, horticulture and history. Recently the journal featured an article by James M. DelPrince…
Rochester, New York seedsman James Vick (1818-1882) sometimes received letters from his customers about how to handle troubling insects in the garden. The problem is not new. Garden writer Susan Mulvihill just came out with a new book in which…
Twenty years ago I began my research on James Vick, the nineteenth-century Rochester, New York seed merchant. The more I read about him, the more interesting he became as a Victorian writer, horticulturist, and marketer, all rolled up into one…