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Australian Garden History Society

http://www.gardenhistorysociety.org.au/

Organisation of people with an interest in the various aspects of garden history - including horticulture, landscape design and architecture. Journal and garden events summary.

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British Library: Lost Gardens

http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/tours/lostgardens/

Illustrations from manuscripts and early printed books dig into the story of gardening. Includes games.

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Canoe Plants of Ancient Hawaii

http://www.canoeplants.com/

Guide to the plants carried by early Polynesian voyagers in their canoes - history and traditional uses for each of two dozen plants.

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Cultivating Canadian Gardens

http://www.collectionscanada.ca/garden/

Tells the story of the development of gardening in Canada by indigenous peoples and settlers, through the books, periodicals, and printed materials collected by the National Library of Canada.

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Enchanted Gardens of the Renaissance

http://www.bergerfoundation.ch/Jardin/index_english.html

A visual tour of three Renaissance Gardens and their relationship to the art of the period.

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Environmental Aesthetics and Chinese Gardens

http://dekart.f.bg.ac.yu/~dpajin/gardens/

On the theoretical basis behind the major standard features of Chinese gardens.

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Fruits and Flowers of Winter

http://sciweb.nybg.org/science2/Onlinexhibits/winterex.html

Archive of an exhibition with items from the Mertz Librarys rare books and archival materials. Includes orangeries, hothouses and botanical drawings.

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Garden History Links

http://www.magma.ca/~evb/garden.html

History of gardening links from Edwinna von Baeyer's Web pages.

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Gardening History Timeline - From Ancient Times to 1800

http://www.gardendigest.com/timegl.htm

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Noteworthy Publications, Persons, and Events in the History of Gardening. Including some Related Information from Agriculture, Natural History, Botany, and Ecology. By Michael P. Garofalo

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Gardens of the Mughal Empire

http://www.mughalgardens.org/

An interactive journey through twelve Mughal Gardens including Shalamar. You can hear music and follow in the footsteps of the ancient Mughals on a processional path from Hiran Minar to Mian Mir.

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Gardenvisit.com

http://www.gardenvisit.com

A guide to garden tours and history, historic parks, and botanic collections open to the public in the UK, USA, Europe, Japan, India, and Australia.

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Gothein's History of Garden Art

http://www.gardenvisit.com/got/

Complete text of the 1913 book is available online here. Detailed accounts of European gardens, added later material on North America, brief accounts of the rest of the world.

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Japanese Garden Database

http://www.jgarden.org/

Educational web site providing information on outstanding examples of Japanese garden art.

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Landscape History

http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~helphand/homepage.html

A categorised collection of images and photographs of gardens and landscapes in a number of designs.

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Landscape history and garden history in India

http://www.chengappa.demon.co.uk/il/

History of gardens and landscapes in the Indian subcontinent, with links to related sites

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Landscape Virtual Gallery.

http://www.vilar.com

A catalog of 8000 slides about parks and gardens in Europe.

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Medieval Garden at Immanuel Lutheran Church

http://www.ilconline.org/Gardenphoto.shtml

Recreated medieval garden based on German gardens in Martin Luther's age. Garden history, information about some of the plants.

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Museum of Garden History

http://www.museumgardenhistory.org/

The recreation of a historic knot garden and the history of British gardens and plants are included as is a virtual visit to several exhibits at the museum.

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Our Vegetable Travelers

http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/plantanswers/publications/vegetabletravelers/

A history of garden vegetables, oirginally published in National Geographic (1949), and reprinted here as a special feature.

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Parcs fabriques - French Anglo-Chinese gardens

http://cesarigd.club.fr/parcsafabriques/homepage.htm

Account of some of the major French gardens made in the style known in France as Anglo-Chinese, and in England as English landscape.

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Shiga Project - The Japanese Garden

http://www.csuohio.edu/history/shiga96/garden.html

A research project on Japanese gardens, by 16 American students who were in Japan in 1996

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Spirit of Gardening

http://www.gardendigest.com/index.htm

Quotes, proverbs, articles, history, humor, links, and resources for the gardener.

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The History of Gardening Timeline

http://www.gardendigest.com/timetab.htm

An account of gardening from ancient times to the twentieth century organized by time periods with links to supplementary information.

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