The jardiniere would never have been standing alone in a field of grass. It was an indication that there had been a garden there.
As Merle Suave walked the grounds of the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art in 1978, she noticed that between the blades of grass, bits of concrete were visible.
The Ringling docent and Sarasota Garden Club member was determined to find out whether that patch of land had indeed been a garden…