The early 19th-century gardens were meant to attract genteel folks, though I’ve run across a couple of advertisements suggesting it wasn’t so easy to discourage problem guests. The owner of a garden in Wilmington DE advertised in 1803 that he was opening his “elegant Mead and Flower Garde...
Wilmington, Vermont-based painter and glass artist Jen Violette uses barn-shaped structures as visual tropes in multiple paintings and blown-glass pieces of blue, tangerine and lime. Often they rest on pillows of glass. In one significant departure, she positions a grove of glass trees in a gr...