Blooming history |
The relatively small
area was the Colonial Nursery, an interpretive and sales site that featured
18th-century garden plantings, botanical histories, historically accurate
plants and practices. For sale were reproduction gardening tools and seeds for plants
that would have been found in a cross section of 18th century colonial
gardens.
Caught reading |
One of the volunteers
plied me with information, including the observation that she would like to
have a gardener working in her garden the same work week of the gifted
gardening expert working in the nursery eight hours a day, five days a week.
Wesley Greene and Don McKelvey, garden historians (Photo from Colonial Williamsburg history here) |
The nursery is the first
historical garden I have ever visited. I look forward to more.
Really interesting, we have something like this here. But my favorite will remain the beautiful Bachelor's Button you captured!
ReplyDeleteI would love to visit the garden and i am wondering how many Victorian women had time to read a book. i love that photo of her reading and love her dress to.
ReplyDeleteI am sadly wondering how many Victorian woman could read?
ReplyDeleteThat would have been me in the corner hiding from the work with my book.
What a fun place to visit!
ReplyDeleteDelightful stuff. There wasn't a garden there when we lived outside of Williamsburg.
ReplyDeleteWhat a neat place. I love how you caught the gardener reading. That was me as a child in the summers, outside reading every chance I got. :)
ReplyDeleteThat must have been so interesting.
ReplyDeleteI took a tour group to Williamsburg at least 20 years ago.
I would love to go on my own so I could actually enjoy it.
It's a wonderful place.
Oh what a wonderful place to visit. I loved the gardens too and how the reenactors brought everything to live. Where else could you meet and talk to Mr. and Mrs Washington, Patrick Henry et. all....:)
ReplyDeleteYou know me, I would have really enjoyed this:) Thank you for sharing your pictures. By the way, I loved the gardener how was enjoying her book :)
ReplyDeleteWhat a wonderful place that would be to visit. Wow. I'd really love to go there.
ReplyDeleteOne of my favorite places. I hope I can get back there this Fall.
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