The Once and Future Gardener

by Clayton, Virginia Tuttle

• ISBN13: 9781567921021
• ISBN10: 1567921027
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-12-01
• Publisher: David R Godine Pub

Summary

The first four decades of this century provided the average American with the best magazines published in this country, as well as our most distinguished garden writing. The first national medium of mass communication, these journals had a formative influence on American culture. Many of their garden articles were by authors we recognize today as singularly fascinating voices: Louise Beebe Wilder, Grace Tabor, Fletcher Steele, Wilhelm Miller, and Mrs. Francis King. But some of the best were by amateurs who wrote about their gardens with wonderful enthusiasm and intelligence while earning their livings in other professions -- as artists, librarians, drama critics, dieticians, college professors, and clergymen.

Author Biography

Virginia Tuttle Clayton is the Associate Curator for Old Master Prints at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., where she has curated the exhibitions Gardens on Paper: Prints and Drawings, 1200-1900, and Fanciful Flourishes: Ornament in European Graphic Art and Related Objects, 1300-1800, and co-curated Love and War: A Manual for Life in the Late Middle Ages. Her previous publications include articles in The Art Bulletin, Simiolus, The Magazine Antiques, and Journal of Garden History. She lives and gardens in Falls Church, Virginia, with her husband Michael Clayton

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Introduction	p. xi
A Year in the Garden	p. 2
Gardening with Trees, Shrubs, and Roses	p. 36
Flower Garden Design	p. 84
Wild Gardens	p. 132
Old-Fashioned Gardens	p. 172
Formal and Italian Gardens	p. 206
The Philosophical Gardener	p. 246
Bibliography	p. 289
Credits	p. 301
Index	p. 305
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