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Article: A Properly Victorian Garden-Is Not Complete Without Nasturtiums and Sweet Peas
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- April 30, 1987
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A period house calls for a period garden. To complement the
abundance of gables and columns of a Victorian house, nothing short
of a proper Victorian garden will do.
In the garden, it is easy to set the clock back by cultivating
only plants that were fashionable during the reign of Queen Victoria
(1837 to 1901). Purists may go as far as to insist that a particular
variety date back to the Victorian era. But the great pragmatic
majority is content planting the kinds of flowers that were in vogue
then and have been improved since. Fellow worshipers of progress,
Victorians surely would approve of such an approach.
A typical choice of the respectable Victorians was the
nasturtium. They ...