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The wife and I are planning on landscaping our backyard to resemble a Roman garden. I have been searching for information online, but only come up with modern Rome, or Italian gardens. Are there any books out there? Anyone else done this?
Thanks,
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I think you'll find the following useful...
Dickson, C. "Macroscopic Fossils of Garden Plants from British Roman and Medieval Deposits" PACT 42 (1994) 47.
Jashemski, Wilhelmina F. "Roman Gardens in Tunisia: Preliminary Excavations in the House of Bacchus and Ariadne and in the East Temple at Thuburbo Maius, with an appendix by J.E. Foss, R.J. Lewis, M.E. Timpson, and S.Y. Lee: Soils of Thuburbo Maius." AJA 99.4 (1995) 559.
Henderson, John "Columella's Living Hedge: the Roman Gardening Book" JRS 92 (2002) 110-133.
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This is good too:
http://www.amazon.com/Ancient-Roman-Gar ... 0750917253
Also look out for work by Elizabeth McDougal (I think) - Harvard University Press. I recall that she produced a book on Roman Villa gardens.
Also Jashmeski produced a Roman Gardens book I believe.
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In the Museumpark Orientalis, one of the houses has a garden based on a Pompeii one.
Unfortunately I've only an 3-years old picture of it, now, so there it is just after opening. Nowadays there are much more plants etc, but here it is.
I've to work next Sunday, so if I don't forget I'll take some more pictures, then.
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This is a very good book:
Andreae, B., Am Birnbaum – Gärten und Parks im antiken Rom, Mainz, 1996.
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Thank you very much!
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Avete omnes,
I can recommend the homepage of a lovely couple from England who also romanized their garden with selfmade mosaic and temple bird-table - see and enjoy:
[url:2vun9r7d]http://www.pyrrha.demon.co.uk/indexp.html[/url]
After painting some frescoes on my old garage I am still struggling myself with a more roman garden.
Greets - Uwe
Greets - Uwe