Northeast of London in the heart of Northumberland you will find Alnwick Castle. The castle dates back to 1750. Over the past few years the owner, the Duchess of Northumberland, has restored the gardens of the Castle, at the request…
I once spent an entire day at Colonial Williamsburg in Virginia and I loved it. The various houses, along with their gardens, especially the Governor's Palace, made the visit a journey into American garden history. Lawrence D. Griffith in his…
In the nineteenth century it was not always popular to include exotic plants in the landscape. At the same time some horticulturists called for more native plants. In her amazing book of garden essays Foreign Trends in American Gardens: A…
The English landscape garden with its lawn, pathways, trees lining the property, and boxwood shrubs surrounding the flower beds dominated America in the nineteenth century. It was as if we had little imagination. Perhaps America was too busy settling in,…
Plant collectors brought wonderful new garden plants to England in the nineteenth century. Soon the plants decorated American gardens as well. The verbena and the fuchsia were in that group In Business History Review Cheryl Lyon-Jenness wrote an article entitled…