The Gardener's Calendar: The Garden Books of Arbury, Nuneaton, in Warwickshire (1689--1703) (2013)
O'Halloran, Sally (Author)
Woudstra, Jan (Author)
Studies in the History of Gardens & Designed Landscapes: An International Quarterly
Volume: 33
Pages: 16--38
Presenting horticultural literature in a `calendar-style' layout was an idea that had been promoted in the published literature in England since the sixteenth century. Thomas Hill's The Gardeners Labyrinth (1577) contained `a discourse of the Gardeners life, in the yearly trauels to be bestowed on his plot of earth'. 1 From the middle of the seventeenth century John Evelyn (1620--1706) in Kalendarium Hortense saw calendars as a means of assisting owners in managing the work of gardeners by detailing `a compleat Cycle of what is requisite to be done throughout every Moneth of the Year' and this remained the case until the early eighteenth century. 2 This paper explores whether or not these books, ostensibly aimed at assisting gardeners, were really necessary for that audience. Instead they appear to have been more of benefit to owners in helping them understand their gardener's scheduling of work. The work of successive gardeners on Arbury estate, near Nuneaton, Warwickshire, who from 1689 to 1703 recorded their daily duties in a calendar-style format, serves as a case study to investigate this hypothesis. The gardener's records offer a unique opportunity to compare their working notes with those practices published in contemporary horticultural books, and as a consequence also provide an insight into the management of a late seventeenth/early eighteenth-century garden.
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