Thomas Jefferson Garden Design
Jefferson also adored carrots and established a yearly quota of 10 bushels for the plantation garden.
Thomas jefferson garden design. Sensitive plant is well sensitive. Jefferson to etienne lemaire. Compiled and annotated by the late edwin morris betts this classic volume captures the planning and planting successes and failures of jefferson s ambitious and experimental gardens.
Thomas jefferson s interest in gardening arose from a passionate curiosity about the natural world from his childhood home at shadwell where in his early twenties jefferson recorded that 2 500 pea seeds would fill a pint jar until 1825 when at the age of eighty two he sought and later received from the former. Jefferson also adored carrots and established a yearly quota of 10 bushels for the plantation. Thomas jefferson and gardening.
Jefferson was a true renaissance man with a variety. However jefferson s contributions go deeper than those accomplishments. When they consider thomas jefferson many americans first think of him as the author of the declaration of independence or as our nation s third president who was responsible for the louisiana purchase and the lewis and clark expedition.
Its gardens were a botanic showpiece a source of food and an experimental laboratory of ornamental and useful plants from around the world. The published transcription of jefferson s garden book can be ordered online the garden and farm books of thomas jefferson robert c. Thomas jefferson s garden book turns 250.
Use of the images permission to reproduce images of manuscripts and or publish transcriptions of collections must be obtained in writing from the massachusetts historical society. The total change of occupation from the house writing table to constant. Jefferson grew 330 vegetable varieties in monticello s 1 000 foot long garden terrace.
Monticello was a botanic laboratory of ornamental and useful plants from around the world. Thomas jefferson s garden book is a compilation of jefferson s own horticultural diary along with many of his letters drawings and memoranda relating to his gardens at monticello and poplar forest. Not only did jefferson s garden design and plantings inspire me but so did the architecture at monticello.