Victorians were anything but shy, retiring, stuffy or conservative, especially when it came to their gardens. Their gardens were colorful, flamboyant and outrageous with eccentric floral displays to ...

Horticulture lecturer Peter Thoday and Harry Dodson present this series demonstrating how simple and exotic flowers were cultivated in the Victorian era. Re-enactments are used to explain how the head ...

Victorian gardens reached their glory when a worldwide gardening frenzy erupted with the introduction of new and exotic plant varieties being discovered around the globe. It was a time when those ...

Seen anywhere from great-grandma’s ornamental garden to your Connecticut neighbor’s hanging basket, coleus are the colorful, velvet-textured leafy cousins of oregano and deadnettle. Native to tropical ...