Articles

Jill writes for a range of scholarly journals and popular websites. Examples include:

  • “Forcing Ground or Melting Pot?” – a conference report for Historic Gardens Review (Issue 25, Summer 2011),
  • “What Makes a Garden Japanese?” for Gardening Gone Wild (June 2011),
  • “The Barbican Complex, architecture and nature in the City of London,” text for a photo-essay by Lula Alvarez at On Botanical Photography (May 2011),
  • “These beautiful pleasure-grounds of Death,” a paper on responses to Père Lachaise and Mount Auburn cemeteries, presented at Foreign Trends on American Soil (a symposium at the University of Pennsylvania, March 18-19, 2011),
  • “Learning about the world – one garden at a time,” Carousel (Summer 2010),
  • The “Gardens That Were Never Built” series for Gardens and People:
  • “Historic Restoration as Mille-feuille,” on the proposals by Bernard Lassus for the Jardin des Tuileries in Paris (July 2010).
  • “Back into Place,” an interview with Kim Wilkie about the Capability Brown design for Heveningham Hall in Suffolk (March 2010);
  • “Genius Distilled” on a late Dan Kiley design in Cambridge, Massachusetts (January 2010);
  • “Virtuous Spiral,” on Robert Smithson’s iconic earthwork, Historic Gardens Review (Issue 22, December 2009),
  • “That Faint Semblance of Eden” – a discussion piece on the challenges of sustainability in landscape design history, online in Design Philosophy Papers (March 2009), and featured in the print edition DPP: Collection Five (January/February 2010), as one of the best articles of the year,
  • “Historic Gardens of the Future – at Risk,” Historic Gardens Review (May 2009),
  • “A Better Monument?” Perspectives in Landscape Design  (Spring 2008),
  • “Helping Reveal the Past,” Carousel (Autumn 2007),
  • “Two Significant Gardens in Old Cambridge,” Perspectives in Landscape Design (Summer 2007).

Jill also writes the popular landscapelover’s blog.