Gardens, Landscape History, New England Gardens
An Island Garden
In the world of celebrated American gardens there may be none more modest than that of Celia Thaxter on…
September 20, 2016-
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Gardens, Landscape History, Public RealmThe Florence Greenway + The Bardini and Boboli Gardens
I’ve been saving and savoring the article “An Ancient Tuscan Farm Turned Magical Bohemian Home” from the June 27th…
September 1, 2016 -
Book Reviews, New England GardensBook Review: Onward and Upward in the Garden by Katharine S. White
In 1958 as her job as an editor at The New Yorker was coming to close, Katharine S. White…
August 11, 2016 -
Boston/Cambridge, Gardens, Landscape History, New England GardensThe Hunnewell Estate: Wellesley
It’s not often that I visit private gardens and even less often that I visit those best known for…
July 25, 2016 -
Book Reviews, Landscape HistoryBook Review: All the Presidents’ Gardens: Madison’s Cabbages to Kennedy’s Roses – How the White House Grounds Have Grown with America by Marta McDowell
If in this year of presidential politics you yearn for a different perspective on life in the White House,…
June 25, 2016 -
Gardens, Landscape HistoryLadew Topiary Gardens
“Never be under the weather, there are so many other places to go.” Thus was the philosophy of Harvey…
June 15, 2016 -
Gardens, Landscape History, LondonYear of the English Garden
2016, the tercentenary of Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown’s birth, has been declared the year of the English Garden. A nationwide…
May 21, 2016 -
Book ReviewsBook Review: Oxford College Gardens
While staying in London last June I took the train to Oxford to visit the Botanic Garden. It had…
May 1, 2016 -
Botanic Gardens, Gardens, Landscape History, LondonOxford Botanic Garden
Oxford, where windows open into other worlds……..“ It’s quite possibly a very good thing that I had not read…
April 2, 2016 -
Book ReviewsBook Review: Gertrude Jekyll at Munstead Wood by Judith Tankard & Martin Wood
Within the canon of landscape history a collection of gardens exists that has revolutionized the profession, shaping, and shaped…
February 14, 2016