Last updated: September 4, 2024
Place
What Does Your Garden Grow?
Christy Hoover
Quick Facts
Location:
Natchez, LA
Amenities
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Historical/Interpretive Information/Exhibits
The garden has undergone many changes besides the addition of the bottles bordering the flower beds. The garden originally followed an antebellum Greek Revival (1820-1860) design and was a formal boxwood parterre. A parterre, from the French word meaning 'on the ground', is designed to be viewed from above. The garden's geometric shaped beds were easily viewed from the gallery of the raised house.
The beds, edged with boxwood, were planted with flowering shrubs, lillies, and larkspur. Pathways were flanked by crepe myrtles, southern magnolia, or red cedars. Over time plants were replaced with a variety of bulbs and camelias. After a blight killed the boxwood, bottles from the wine cellar replaced them as borders. The bottle edging includes French wine bottles, salt-glazed stoneware beer and ale bottles, Anheuser-Busch beer bottles, bitters, and mineral water bottles.
The garden layout features beds shaped like rectangles, diamonds, hearts, circles, and stars with a closeup of a Taylor Wine Company bottle in the garden.
The beds, edged with boxwood, were planted with flowering shrubs, lillies, and larkspur. Pathways were flanked by crepe myrtles, southern magnolia, or red cedars. Over time plants were replaced with a variety of bulbs and camelias. After a blight killed the boxwood, bottles from the wine cellar replaced them as borders. The bottle edging includes French wine bottles, salt-glazed stoneware beer and ale bottles, Anheuser-Busch beer bottles, bitters, and mineral water bottles.
The garden layout features beds shaped like rectangles, diamonds, hearts, circles, and stars with a closeup of a Taylor Wine Company bottle in the garden.