By planting the listed flowers and shrubs, you will recreate for your home the same outdoor living area portrayed in these 19th century garden designs.

The Geffrye explores how and why the huge interest in plants and flowers manifested itself in Victorian middle-class homes. Much of the exhibition is given over to what actually happened ‘at home’ in the nineteenth century.

Festival weekends during The Edible Garden will offer visitors the chance to discover the origins of food and learn about the plants and plant parts that they eat every day. Gardening experts will once again bring their ideas to The New York Botanical Garden’s historic Nancy Bryan Luce Herb Garden, exhibiting a rich selection of herbs from common chives to savory curry plants and aromatic artemisia.

The Victorian garden and veranda were often as extravagantly furnished as the accompanying house or mansion.

Create a Victorian garden with perennials popular in the first half of the nineteenth century. Perennials bloom year after year — pick your favorite perennials from these hand-colored plates from an early Victorian book on …

Founded in 1804 by Sir Joseph Banks and John Wedgwood, the aim was to collect plant information and encourage the improvement of horticultural practice. The Society was renamed the Royal Horticultural Society in 1861 after Prince Albert.

Want to create your own Victorian indoor garden? In The New Terrarium, Tovah Martin, one of America’s favorite gardeners, introduces you to the whimsical yet practical world of gardens under glass — a no-fuss way …

Victorian Wardian cases, or terrariums, were large, decorative, and varied considerably in shape. The exquisite beauty of a fine assortment of ferns skillfully managed and arranged in these glass cases may well account for the popularity of indoor gardens during the late 19th century.