 A number of writers published highly influential books about the Colonial Revival garden.Among these were 
Alice Morse Earle's "Old Time Gardens" (1901), Alice Morse Earle's "Sun Dials and Roses of Yesterday" (1902), and Grace Tabor's "Old-Fashioned Gardening" (1913).Colonial Revival gardens do not seek to imitate or replicate actual colonial gardens or colonial planting schemes.