Of Pinecones, Fountains, and Fascination

Just about a year ago, while I was engaged in rather far-ranging reading in garden history, I became fascinated with pinecones.  My reading journeyed from the 6th-century BCE Chahar Bagh gardens of Persia to the 20th-century arts and crafts herbaceous borders of England.  Familiar with decorative pinecone elements in garden hardscape, I had not, however, …