Vintage Wisconsin gardens : a history of home gardening / Lee Somerville ; foreword by Arnold R. Alanen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Somerville, Lee.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gardening--Wisconsin--History.

Gardening.

Gardens--Wisconsin--History.

Gardens.

History.

Wisconsin.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xx, 177 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Madison, WI : Wisconsin Historical Society Press, [2011]

Biography/History:

Lee Somerville is a landscape historian and master gardener. Originally from Liverpool, England, her home for the past thirty-five years has been northeastern Wisconsin. Between 1985 and 2001, Somerville was a volunteer at Heritage Hill State Historical Park in Green Bay, where she helped develop garden and landscape plans and organized volunteers to maintain those gardens. She recently received her master's degree in landscape architecture from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Summary:

Filled with period and contemporary images, recommended plant lists, and garden layouts, Vintage Wisconsin Gardens will interest those curious about the history of the state's cultural landscape and inspire readers to restore or reconstruct period gardens of their own. --Book Jacket.

Contents:

Forward

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Changing ideals in nineteenth-century American vernacular gardens

From farmstead to village

The pleasures and benefits of amateur horticulture

Beautifying the home grounds

Graceful vines and sweet wild roses: recommended plants

In the Wisconsin garden-yesterday and today

Appendix: recommended varieties

Notes

Selected bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-167) and index.

ISBN:

9780870204753

0870204750

OCLC:

703104450