We all know that the lawn has long been a part of the home landscape here in the US. The lawn, in fact, dates back to the beginning of our country, but really took off in the mid-nineteenth century when suburbs…
The English lawn came to Chicago in the 1850s. The home landscape in the Victorian decades that followed resembled the home landscape design of the east coast at the same time. By the end of the century the University of Illinois…
Today you accept advertising as a fact of life. In the late nineteenth century advertising as we know it today appeared and spread across the country. The ad sold a product but also with that product a feeling, a hope,…
It was not uncommon for nineteenth century seed companies and nurseries to create a landscape at their nursery, greenhouse or trial garden that would also give a visitor an idea of what the home landscape for that time should look like. Phildelphia's…
The early spring array of flowers for the garden includes the Hellebore, a perennial from Europe and Western Asia. Today the plant enjoys a spot in the American garden as well. It was therefore no surprise that the Hellebore appeared this…