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Books: History
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A remarkable book that guides my choices
for structure, settings, garden rooms, and plant material
to define authentic feeling "revival gardens"for antique houses
and reproduction homes in historic settings. Usually data
is missing for a historic garden restoration. So I strive
to create a "revival garden" that feels as if it was built
in an earlier era and evolved to present day. |
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Invaluable for the list of plants available
by period. I look up the approximate date of the "revival
garden" that I'm creating, note the plants used, and then
create my plant list using modern equivalents. Often native
plants were used so it makes it easy to make the garden with
a historical and environmentally regional theme. |
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Her wonderful collection of images painted
by contemporaries of the garden makers gives me visual clues
to create authentic feeling American "revival gardens". Grandmothers
gardens are typically filled with flowering shrubs, vines,
trees, and perennials. |
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