New Gardening Magazine

For this post I have prepared a magazine about gardens. I can’t say that gardening is my favorite hobby, but it’s nice to look at the gardens. I dare to say that it is so positive to look into the green.

As I said, I don’t know anything about gardening, so I had to salt it a little. I make these magazines to improve my compositional skills.

Working with real text would be more difficult, as I have already tried myself many times, but this is enough for me to pass a long time.

Testing the right type. I like the one on the right, but it is hard to read so I am choosing the one the left for practical reasons.

This was a valuable experience, one looks at the greenery even only through the screen and looks at wonderful photos of beautiful things.

Something about history:

The Gardener’s Magazine was the first British periodical devoted to horticulture. Full title was The gardener’s magazine and register of rural & domestic improvement. It was written, edited and published by John Claudius Loudon starting in 1826. https://www.gardenvisit.com/history_theory/library_online_ebooks/loudon_biography/gardeners_magazine_jc_loudon

In 1826 he established The Gardener’s Magazine, the first periodical devoted exclusively to horticultural subjects. This work was always Mr. Loudon’s favourite, and the organ through which he communicated his own thoughts and feelings to the public. It was originally undertaken principally for the benefit of gardeners in the country, in order to put them “on a footing with those about the metropolis;” but it soon became the universal means of communication among gardeners, and was of incalculable benefit to them. It also became a source of great pleasure to amateurs of gardening, and was no doubt the means of inspiring a taste for the pursuit in many who had before been indifferent to it. “In an art so universally practised as gardening, and one daily undergoing so much improvement,” Mr. Loudon observes, “a great many occurrences must take place worthy of being recorded, not only for the entertainment of gardening readers, but for the instruction of practitioners in the art.” (Gardeners Magazine. vol. i. p. 1.) That this work met the wants of a large class of readers is evident from four thousand copies of the first number having been sold in a few days; and from the work having continued popular for nineteen years, and, in fact, till its close at the death of its conductor.

Where was the world’s first garden made?

The garden of the House of Venus at Pompeii is one of the oldest surviving gardens in the world.

Cultivation and the domestication of plants began in the Levantine Corridor, which runs from Dead Sea to the Damascus Basin, and quite probably outside Jericho. This is known because the earliest domesticated plants are all native to this region and radio-carbon dating reveals that horticultural activity began c9,000 BCE. Plants were cultivated by hand and with digging sticks, not with the plough, but the plants cultivated were all cereals and pulses, making ‘farming’ a better description of the activity than ‘gardening’ or ‘horticulture’ in the modern sense of ‘not ploughed’.

The first literary evidence of gardening comes from Sumer in Lower Mesopotamia. Gilgamesh mentions that his city (Uruk) was ‘one third gardens’ – but the gardens were were palm orchards. Some flowers may have been grown but the main purpose was growing food and the gardens are unlikely to have been beside houses. People lived on dry mounds (tells) and required irrigation to grow fruit and vegetables. The Garden of Eden was ‘located’ in Sumer but its status is mythological rather than historical.