In Maine the Old Sheep Meadows Nursery features rose varieties that have grown through the tough winters of the northeast. Many roses fill the display gardens at the Nursery,located in the small town of Alfred. A visit is a must…
This summer the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens opened its Children’s Garden, a 2-acre $1.7 million garden, in the planning for several years. Special features include a maze that is ground level, and based on Veronica’s Maze, a 16th century embroidery featured on…
The Mina lobata vine came from England to America, where it remains a popular later summer or fall vine.The Mina lobata vine, which blooms now at the end of the summer, grows as an annual in colder parts of the…
James Vick's seed catalog of the 1870s from Rochester, NY sold the lawn mower, which, of course, assumed the importance of the lawn. Rose Standish Nichols says in her book English Pleasure Gardens that the lawn was beginning to take a…
Rose Standish Nichols in her book English Pleasure Gardens moves into the next period of the English garden, the Stuarts (1603-1714). She writes: “In the days of the Stuarts the Elizabethan gardens underwent certain modifications according to the predominance of French,…