I stumbled across this reprint of an article from a 1917 gardening magazine entitled "Evolution of my Garden" written by Mrs Greenleaf Clarke and even with no photos, it is a delight to read and so easy to picture what a lovely cottage garden she had. Wonder if that was her real name or a pen name? Anyway, I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. Has a wonderful idea on how to grow sweet peas too.
http://www.earthlypursuits.com/GardenMag/GardenMag0517-235-6.htm
This message was edited Nov 15, 2006 7:04 AM
The Evolution of a 1917 Cottage Garden
interesting site. thanks
She had a great idea for the sweet peas! I bet her garden was lovely.
i can't seem to get the page to display normally. help? It sounds delightful!
xx, Carrie
I think it's kind of stuck that way - looks like someone kind of scanned it in weird.
Did anyone else like that front cover illustration? Lovely...
http://www.earthlypursuits.com/GardenMag/GardenMag0517.htm
Glad to see you posting, Lincolnitess - unless I've been missing them, it's been a while, eh?
Oh, duh, I get it. It's three columns. Fascinating. I was trying to read it straight across from left to right. One can almost visualize it, and I do like her sweet pea idea! I now find I am writing rather differently, and must--quickly now!--haste to Plantfiles to look up a great many things.
Thank-you for sharing!!!! I enjoyed it..
When I started to read the article it all seemed familiar, so I looked back at the thread and saw it was started 11/15/2006 and then looked at the number of viewers. I think I must have been one of them. Linconitess, I hope you're still here in DG to see how many people you've reached. Thank you again.