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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

NEARLY everything to do with gardening in Victorian times was done on a grand scale. No poking about with a wee fork in a quiet flower bed for those 19th-century gentlemen in tweedy coats. Gardens ...

Judy Smith spoke about the Victorian meaning of the placement of a handheld fan and the meaning of specific types of flowers at the Parkersburg Woman’s Club. (Photo Provided) PARKERSBURG — Judy Smith ...