Famed landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted in 1893 dismissed 21-year-old Beatrix Farrand as a dilettante gardener, but six years later she had...
During World War I, hundreds of thousands of American children joined the U.S. School Garden Army and helped feed a hungry nation at...
Victory gardens helped win World War II because they allowed the U.S. government to divert scarce tin supplies for military use. They...
H.H. Hunnewell was a gardening nut who financed railroads and contributed so much to West Needham, Mass., that the town voted to...
Celia Thaxter celebrated her 58th birthday in 1893 at her cottage on the Isles of Shoals off the coast of New Hampshire...
In the days before Granny Smith apples became Martha Stewart’s preferred fruit for pies and ice cream, the Rhode Island Greening ruled....