The garden historian John Dixon Hunt is the editor of a series of books called "The English Landscape Garden." The goal of the book series is to provide "examples of the important literature of the English landscape garden movement together…
The French garden book called in its English translation The Retir'd Gardner first appeared in 1706. The purpose for the translation was to help English gardeners learn from the French who showed a passion for flower gardens in the seventeenth…
The anemone numbered among France's King Louis XIV's list of favorite flowers. At one time this flower was called the "Grecian Windflower." That popular name speaks to its origin in the mediterranean area of Greece and Asia Minor. In the…
Just finished a marvelous study of flowers during the time of the Sun King Louis XIV (1643-1715). [Pastel above by Charles le Brun] Somehow it seems that women have long been connected with flowers in the garden. In 1909 Neltje…
The New Hampshire poet Celia Thaxter (1835-1894) wrote a wonderful book about her style of gardening called An Island Garden. In a way Celia Thaxter could represent the Victorian gardener in late nineteenth-century America. The gold-stamped cover of Celia Thaxter's…