The Overgrown Edwardian Garden
The opposite of a garden that grows in neat, defined, classical rows is a garden that imitates nature and the wild and overgrows its boundaries such as the one pictured today at www.edwardwarethrillers.org. It sounds like a rebellious, romantic notion. That’s why the Victorians and Edwardians, born in the nineteenth century, found such gardens attractive. Dora and Edward, hero and heroine of the Edward Ware Thriller Series, had a secret bower in the garden at Ware Hall --- all overgrown with vines --- where they met to exchange secrets.