Directory of Histories of Famous Gardens Resources

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Resources in This Category

• Désert de Retz

  http://desertderetz.info/
  Description and photographs of a romantic 18th-century folly garden near Paris, with a chronology and bibliography of its creator François Racine de Monville, by Ronald Kenyon.

• Garden History at Stratford Hall Plantation

  http://stratfordhall.org/visit/gardens/
  Gardens at the home of Robert E. Lee.

• Gardens of Tuscany

  http://www.gardens-of-tuscany.net/
  Histories, descriptions and photos of villa and castle gardens in the Chianti zone of Tuscany.

• Maplelawn Historic Garden (Ottawa, Canada)

  http://www.maplelawn.ca/
  History, 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.

• Norah Lindsay - The Life and Art of a Garden Designer

  http://www.norahlindsay.com/
  Describes the life of garden designer Norah Lindsay and the many gardens she designed. Includes her biography and many photographs of gardens she designed in the 1920's and 1930's.

• Pavilion Gardens

  http://www.virginia.edu/uvatours/gardens/gardensHistory.html
  Thomas Jefferson, America's Third President, designed the gardens and buildings for the University of Virginia.

• The Friends of The Forgotten Garden Of Lewtrenchard

  http://www.forgottengarden.co.uk/
  Group dedicated to the restoration of an Edwardian woodland garden constucted by Sabine Baring-Gould, located near to Lewtrenchard Manor Hotel, Lewdown, Devon.

• Upton Grey Garden

  http://website.lineone.net/~uptongrey.garden/
  The famous fully-restored 1908 Gertrude Jekyll garden in Upton Grey, Hampshire, England

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