[left: The Shell Temple in Pope's Garden at Twickenham. By William Kent c. 1725-30] Landscape designer Ian Robertson once gave a talk at the annual spring seminar that Colonial Williamsburg sponsors. His theme was the English influence on gardens in America. One…
[left: Stourhead's Palladium Bridge, built in 1762] Last year on my visit to England’s Stourhead, laid out between 1740 and 1764, I was amazed at the surprises awaiting me as I walked along the pathway from the house. Earlier the…
I just finished a book about Horace Walpole (1717-1797), the English natural landscape writer. Though he was not a trained horticulturalist, he wrote about gardening and gardened himself. [left: Lorraine's Appollo and the Muses (1680), at the Boston Museum of…
[left: Wilhelm Miller's book appeared in 1915, and gave a new direction in garden design by more focus on native plants.] In 1901 Chicago landscape architect Wilhelm Miller (1869–1938) wrote a book called What England Can Teach Us about Gardening. He considered the…
Advertising in the nineteenth century increased after daily newspapers began to sell for pennies in the 1830s. Ads usually just listed information about the product or service, with perhaps an image. By the 1890s advertising evolved into creating a need…