In Atlantic Monthly, they did a feature on the top 100 most influential figures in American history.The famous landscape architect Frederick Law Olmstead was the 49th person listed. He gave us city parks like Central Park in New York City and created grand estates like the Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina.Other gardeners on the list include #2 George Washington and #3 Thomas Jefferson. Both took solace in their gardens in between doing great and lofty things like running a new … [Read more...] about Influential and Gardeners, Too
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On English Gardens and Bloggers
Have you noticed that the British garden bloggers seem to speak a different English language than the American garden bloggers?Many of the gardeners in England (it is okay to say England vs. Great Britain, isn’t it?) garden in allotments, which turn out to be community gardens divided up into individual gardens. And based on what I’ve read, there are waiting lists to get into some of these gardens. I think what would be nice about gardening in a community garden is that the people you run into … [Read more...] about On English Gardens and Bloggers