Tool Time: John Evelyn
For today's Tool Time post, Garden Variety is going back in time.
Way back in time.
Through the courtesy of Barbara Wells Sarudy's blog, Early American Gardens: A museum in a blog , we learn about John Evelyn, a wealthy English aristocrat and his 40 years long project to catalog the horticultural information which was changing so fast in front of him.
Much of what he wrote was, of course, about garden tools, and he included a long list of what he thought were the essentials. Read his list on this blog post by Sarudy.
She was the executive director of the Maryland Humanities Council for nearly 10 years, retiring in 2001. She wrote extensively about early Chesapeake gardens and her work was published as a book, "Gardens and Gardening in the Chesapeake, 1700-1805."
Sarudy told me in an e-mail that she finds her investigation of the history of gardens "endlessly fascinating."
