Van ‘Booneboom van Carolina’ tot mondaine plant: Wisteria
A question about the popularity of the Wisteria in The Netherlands, led me towards a search for the first occurence of that plant in the country. That search sent me back in time further than I expected: to 1737, George Clifford’s garden at De Hartekamp in Heemstede. Linnaeus’ publications about this garden mention the plant, under its original name Glycine.
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A question about the popularity of the Wisteria in The Netherlands, led me towards a search for the first occurence of that plant in the country. That search sent me back in time further than I expected: to 1737, George Clifford’s garden at De Hartekamp in Heemstede. Linnaeus’ publications about this garden mention the plant, under its original name Glycine.
