Best of all, her book offers many early photographs of those plants in situ, growing happily in vernacular gardens, where the foliage looks almost as venerable as the humans posing beside it.
Winding cul-de-sacs of "vernacular" houses with gardens, with each street named after something that used to be there – thousands of Orchard Closes and Cedar Drives.
"The gardens are a vernacular art work in their own right," says Deller.
Most willing visitors to the countryside come precisely to seek out what TRC rather snottily describes as a "theme park" – the pretty vernacular housing, the tidy cottage gardens, the fields, the woods, the hedges, the country pub and so on.
BREAK OUT -- TOM LEADER Mr. Leader, who worked with Peter Walker for 16 years before opening his own Berkeley studio in 2001, says his garden "draws on the vernacular culture of rural California" and "is about barnyards, porches and Johnny Cash".
The Charles Payne House is a one-and-a-half story Gothic-Italianate vernacottageothate thas haspaciousious garden founded on the site of a long-removed house.
The concept is centered around making better use of backyards (less lawn, more sustainable garden) and using the traditional architecture vernacular for that area — the "shotgun" house.
In early houses such as Deanery Garden, Sonning, Berkshire (1901), he adopted local vernacular styles but was nonetheless able to display his characteristic geometric massing on the exteriors and his love of complex spatial flow in the interiors.
By the late 1950s, Covent Garden was gradually abandoning its policy of productions in the vernacular; such stars as Maria Callas would not relearn their roles in English.
William Robinson (5 July 1838 – 17 May 1935) was an Irish practical gardener and journalist whose ideas about wild gardening spurred the movement that evolved into the English cottage garden, a parallel to the search for honest simplicity and vernacular style of the British Arts and Crafts movement.
Vernacular statuary installed in American yards intersects with the long and lofty history of garden sculpture, but gives it a saucy, slang twist, explained Colleen Sheehy in her book The Flamingo in the Garden: American Yard Art and the Vernacular Landscape (Garland, 1998).
