"Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture XXI"--Added t.p. Introduction / Michel Conan -- Prelude: Landscape studies, 1952-1972 / Elisabeth Blair McDougall -- The study of ...

The contribution of archeology to the study of ancient Roman gardens / Wilhelmina F. Jashemski -- Landscape archaeology and garden history research: Success and promise at Bacon's Castle, Monticello, ...

NEW YORK – Occasionally, landscape gardening goes well beyond flowers and shrubbery to encompass questions of national identity, culture, even social change. The era from 1900 to 1930 in America was ...

Is it possible to pour the entire well of American garden history into 10 glass cases? Probably not, but the Smithsonian has made a valiant effort with a new exhibition at the American History Museum.

Three gardens at the 2026 RHS Chelsea Flower Show have found themselves mired in controversy rather than the more usual mud. This year’s show gardens include one designed by Matt Keightley, who has ...

Syracuse, N.Y. — In the 19th century, thousands of boats plied the waters of the Erie Canal, moving people and goods through Upstate New York. Spurring the transformation of New York into the Empire ...

Mark Laird’s A Natural History of Gardening(Yale University Press, $75) is one of those books that would look swell on a cocktail table: impressively hefty, eye-catchingly colorful. Its cover is a ...