Everything for the Garden

• Author(s): Judith B. Tankard, Richard C. Nylander, Alan Emmet, Virginia Lopez Begg,
• Publisher: Historic New England
• Pages: 144
• ISBN_10: 0989059847
  ISBN_13: 9780989059848
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Gardening / Vegetables , Nature / Plants / Flowers , Nature / Plants / General , Technology & Engineering / Agriculture / General ,

Description:... Everything for the Garden is for anyone who enjoys gardening at home, visiting historic landscapes, or admiring plants and flowers in art and culture. Colorfully illustrated by material from Historic New England's extensive collection, the book celebrates the objects and literature that people used to make and enjoy gardens from the mid-nineteenth century to today.

Essays by well-known experts include Virginia Lopez Begg on garden clubs and horticultural societies, Alan Emmet on garden portraits, Richard Nylander on a cornucopia of catalogs and on garden architecture and ornament, and Judith Tankard on designing and making the garden.