Vintage Wisconsin Gardens Book by Lee Somerville
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Vintage Wisconsin Gardens


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As Wisconsin s population moved from farmsteads into villages, towns, and cities, the state saw a growing interest in gardening as a leisure activity and source of civic pride. In "Vintage Wisconsin Gardens," Lee Somerville introduces readers to the region s ornamental gardens of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, showcasing the vernacular gardens created by landscaping enthusiasts for their own use and pleasure.
The Wisconsin State Horticultural Society, established during the mid-nineteenth century, was the primary source of advice for home gardeners. Through carefully selected excerpts from WSHS articles, Somerville shares the excitement of these gardeners as they traded cultivation and design knowledge and explored the possibilities of their avocation. Women were frequent presenters at the WSHS annual meetings, and their voices resonate. Their writings, and those of their male colleagues, are a remarkable legacy we can draw on today learning how Wisconsinites past created and enjoyed their gardens helps us appreciate our own. Filled with period and contemporary images, recommended plant lists, and garden layouts, "Vintage Wisconsin Gardens "will interest those curious about the history of the state s cultural landscape and inspire readers to restore or reconstruct period gardens."
About the Author: Lee Somerville is a landscape historian and master gardener. Originally from Liverpool, England, her home for the past thirty-five years has been northeastern Wisconsin. Between 1985 and 2001, Somerville was a volunteer at Heritage Hill State Historical Park in Green Bay, where she helped develop garden and landscape plans and organized volunteers to maintain those gardens. She recently received her master s degree in landscape architecture from the University of Wisconsin Madison."


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780870204753
  • Publisher: Wisconsin Historical Society Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Wisconsin Historical Society Press
  • Depth: 13
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 11 mm
  • Weight: 621 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0870204750
  • Publisher Date: 04 Oct 2011
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 177
  • Series Title: English
  • Sub Title: A History of Home Gardening
  • Width: 204 mm


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