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Cultivating Place: Garden History: Blithewold And The Country Place Era Garden
Cultivating Place: Garden History: Blithewold And The Country Place Era Garden
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Length:
28 minutes
Released:
Sep 25, 2017
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Podcast episode
Description
Gardens can be important repositories for cultural and environmental history. From the plants included to materials used — you can read a great deal about time and place in any garden. This might be particularly true of gardens created and cared for at the turn of the 19th century in England and the United States — a time marked by the unprecedented expanding financial, journalistic and horticultural wealth of the industrial age. This week on Cultivating Place we’re joined by Gail Read, garden manager of Blithewold, to explore the history embedded in any garden. Blithewold, which is Welsh for “ Happy Wood,” is a nationally significant Country Place Era house, garden and arboretum on Rhode Island’s Narragansett Bay.
Released:
Sep 25, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode
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