Did Pompeii Have Gardens? Heck Yes! Here’s Exactly What Those Enchanted Roman Villa Gardens Looked Like and How To Recreate a Mini-Version of a Pompeiian Pleasure Garden For Yourself. This podcast includes an interview with the Getty Villa's Michael DeHart.
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Further Resources:
Gardens and Plants of the Getty Villa by Patrick Bowe and Michael DeHart.
Ancient Herbs in the J Paul Getty Museum Gardens by Jeanne D'Andrea.
Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius (and Joseph Dommers Vehling).
Ancient Roman Villa Gardens by Elisabeth Blair MacDougal and Wilhelmine F Jashemski.
A Pompeian Herbal: Ancient and Modern Medicinal Plants by Wilhelmina Feemster Jashemski and Lillian Nicholson Meyer.
The Mythology of Plants: Botanical Lore from Ancient Greece and Rome by Annette Gieseke.
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