History & The Arts
The winding garden path: Radicalism amongst the flower beds
...public parks and they would plant it in a slightly different way, design it slightly differently. It might have bamboo or it might have a cherry tree for the spring blossom. It might have Japanese maples, peace roses, maybe even a little pagoda in some instances. And these became called peace gardens. And they were seen as the sort of horticultural manifestation of the...