Garden names are trendy, but it’s not going to be Erinwood

On a whirlwind tour of 14 Philadelphia-area gardens over a few days last summer, I took note that every private garden I saw had two things in common — a great display of horticulture and a name. Gardens were not known by their owners, but by a name bequeathed to them by a resident — perhaps caretaker is the better term — somewhere along the line.