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Ascog Hall Victorian Fernery and Gardens
Discovery and restoration of a 19th-century fernery on the Island of Bute in the Clyde Estuary.
http://www.ascoghallfernery.co.uk/
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Boxwood Garden
Historic Deepwood Estate - Salem, Oregon
http://oregonlink.com/deepwood/boxwoodgarden.html
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Claymont Garden History
The garden at Claymont Court was established in the 1820's following the construction of the mansion house. Bushrod Washington's slaves labored to create the walls and terracing still seen today. The garden was originally used both to grow food for the household as well as flowers to beautify the home and landscape
http://www.claymont.org/tour/garden/gardhist.htm
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Garden History Links
Links to sites of garden and landscape history interest. Web pages.
http://www.magma.ca/%7Eevb/garden.html
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History of Dovecote
History of the garden of The Dovecote at Cobham in Surrey,England which was part of the garden of "The Woodlands" belonging to the noted Victorian gardener Theresa Earle
http://www.dovecot.net/dovecote.htm
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Katsura Rikyu Garden
Full description of the gardens and their history.
http://www.jgc.co.jp/waza/a3_katsura/index.htm
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Maplelawn Historic Garden (Ottawa, Canada)
History, extensive photographs, links, tour and Friends'information for one of the oldest and best preserved walled gardens in Canada. Open to the public spring through fall. English and French versions.
http://members.tripod.com/maplelawn/english.html
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Mary's Gardens
Mary's Gardens was founded in 1951 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to research the hundreds of flowers named in medieval times as symbols of the life, mysteries and privileges of the Blessed Virgin Mary
http://www.mgardens.org/
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Museum of Garden History
Located at the restored church of St Mary-at-Lambeth next to Lambeth Palace in London, the museum offer activities and lectures. Our churchyard contains a recreation of a historic knot garden.
http://www.cix.co.uk/~museumgh/
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Old Rose Garden History
Jim Syring in June of 1995 and his collection of old roses which was planted at "Smitherwood", the home of Judge and Mrs. Selwyn Smith, in Manassas, Virginia.
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Estates/3961/history.html
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Pavilion Gardens
Thomas Jefferson, America's Third President, designed the gardens and buildings for the University of Virginia.
http://www.virginia.edu/uvatours/gardens/gardensHistory.html
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The Gardens
There were more than 100 gardens in Louisbourg in the 18th century, made by the French, in Canada.
http://collections.ic.gc.ca/louisbourg/garden.html
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the Racine de Monville Home Page
The D�sert de Retz, an Extraordinary is an 18th Century Garden near Paris, France
http://www.geocities.com/Paris/6093/
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Tuileries Gardens - Paris
A Short Dark History By Jacqueline Donnelly. "In order to appreciate the gardens you must sit quietly and see the invisible". Several old illustrations.
http://www.paris.org/Kiosque/sep96/tuileries.html
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Upton Grey Garden
The famous fully-restored 1908 Gertrude Jekyll garden in Upton Grey, Hampshire, England
http://website.lineone.net/~uptongrey.garden/
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