The 1876 Centennial Exhibition featured conservatories. The Victorian gardener in the late nineteenth century sought exotic plants that displayed color and form whether in the garden or in the house. The 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia showcased the love of…
Victorian home landscape required lawn. The lawn became an important part of the American home landscape in the nineteenth century. The seed and nursery catalogs often featured a lawn in illustrations and offered the best method of laying out and…
Nineteenth century Victorian garden reconstructed. Today I volunteer in the nineteenth century Victorian garden of Sarah Parker Rose Goodwin, wife of New Hampshire's Civil War governor Ichabod Goodwin. Several years ago the Goodwin house was moved a few blocks, from Islington Street to…
Victorians loved flower arranging. Today people send flower arrangements quite easily through several online vendors. Flower arranging as an art form took hold in the Victorian period. After 1850 the seed and nursery catalogs moved from selling mostly vegetables to…
Oliver Plunkett's birthplace includes garden. I just finished reading a biography of Oliver Plunkett, an Archbishop in Ireland who died in 1681 as a martyr for his Catholic faith. Four priests and five laymen, paid to testify against him, betrayed…