ABSTRACT
‘Gardens at the Frontier: New Methodological Perspectives on Garden History and Designed Landscapes’ brings together scholarly perspectives drawn from a variety of disciplines to explore garden history’s thematic, geographical, and methodological frontiers through a focus on gardens as sites of cultural contact. Contributors also consider how past people and present garden researchers have produced gardens and garden histories. In ‘Gardens, History and the Designer: Contributions to Historiography’, Ian Henderson also examines geological features, in addition to other aspects of the natural environment, as means of articulating the importance of considerations of site and broader landscapes to the analysis of gardens. In ‘The Cultural History of the Garden Gnome in New Zealand’, Ian Duggan challenges stereotypes of the garden gnome and attempts to correct an imbalanced garden historiography that has overlooked this form of garden statuary.
