Historic gardens have a special appeal to New Englanders if only because of our harsh winters and long dreary springs. Though they...
The Lyman Estate in Waltham, Mass., commemorates one of the greatest China traders of his age, Theodore Lyman. Few other memorials, written...
Famed landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted in 1893 dismissed 21-year-old Beatrix Farrand as a dilettante gardener, but six years later she had...
The man who invented the Concord Grape started out life in 1806 in Boston, but poor health aggravated by city life prompted...
H.H. Hunnewell was a gardening nut who financed railroads and contributed so much to West Needham, Mass., that the town voted to...
The Thornless Rose was an age-old dream of floriculturists, one that Nick Grillo achieved even as he realized the American Dream. Nick...