053 18th Century Gardens - For Use or Delight
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Mary Mary, Quite Contrary , How does your Garden Grow? Or more importantly what grows in it, is it geometric or naturalistic, and who's doing the spade work? Gardens in...
show moreOr more importantly what grows in it, is it geometric or naturalistic, and who's doing the spade work?
Gardens in 18th century America run the gamut from pure survival to combining pleasure and purpose, to being show pieces entirely - Just like the Dowager Lady Grantham's
Most Important (and very readable) Book for this Episode:
Leighton, Anne. _American Gardens in the Eighteenth Century: For Use or Delight_
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1976
Music Credit: Fingerlympics by Doctor Turtle
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