Vintage Wisconsin gardens : a history of home gardening / Lee Somerville ; foreword by Arnold R. Alanen.

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 of their own. --Book Jacket.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Somerville, Lee
Language:English
Published: Madison, WI : Wisconsin Historical Society Press, [2011], ©2011.
Subjects:
Gardening > Wisconsin > History.
Gardens > Wisconsin > History.
Gardening.
Gardens.
Wisconsin.
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:xx, 177 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm
Format: Government Document Book
Description
Summary:
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 of their own. --Book Jacket.
Call Number:SB451.34.W6 S66 2011
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-167) and index.
ISBN:9780870204753
0870204750
Biographical Sketch:
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.