That status symbol discovered beneath the soil of the Colonial Williamsburg living history museum? An ornamental garden once ...

The garden's legacy has lived on through Custis' correspondence with British botanist Peter Collinson, who traded plants with other horticulturalists around the globe.

The garden in Williamsburg belonged to John Custis IV, a tobacco plantation owner who served in Virginia's colonial legislature. He is perhaps best known as the first father-in-law of Martha ...

Sitting pretty: Colonial Williamsburg furniture restoration 06:18. Archaeologists in Virginia are uncovering one of colonial America's most lavish displays of opulence: An ornamental garden where ...

(AP) — Archaeologists in Virginia are uncovering one of colonial America’s most lavish ... trimmed into balls and pyramids. The garden’s legacy has lived on through Custis’ correspondence with British ...

The garden’s legacy has lived on through Custis’ correspondence with British botanist Peter Collinson, who traded plants with other horticulturalists around the globe.

(AP) — Archaeologists in Virginia are uncovering one of colonial ... balls and pyramids. The garden’s legacy has lived on through Custis’ correspondence with British botanist Peter Collinson ...

Archaeologists in Virginia are uncovering one of colonial ... into balls and pyramids. The garden’s legacy has lived on through Custis’ correspondence with British botanist Peter Collinson ...

Williamsburg-Colonial Garden Colonial Williamsburg archaeologists Jennifer McGee, Megan Veness and Rachel Fisher look for possible artifacts at the former site of an 18th Century ornamental garden ...