I recently read an article in the Boston Globe that made me rethink the idea of excluding exotic plants from the landscape and choosing only native plants. Leon Neyfakh, the author of the Globe article "The Invasive Species War", uses…
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…
In the nineteenth century it was important that garden books come from practical gardeners who wrote about their experience in the garden. One such garden writer was Bernard McMahon who was born in Ireland and came to America in 1796.…
We just returned from a few days in Quebec. After an eight hour drive up, we found a French-speaking city on the St. Lawrence River with a history of English landscape tradition as well. Of course we visited the famous…
On our recent trip to Quebec, where we enjoyed the food and where the historical sites seemed endless, two parks stand out as examples of the nineteenth century English garden style. St. John of Arc Park, near the Old City,…