On Walnut Hill - The Evolution Of A Garden
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.71 (776 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1495163091 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 275 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-10-14 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
He has been a regular contributor to the Garden Rant since 2013 and serves on the board of the Olmsted Parks Conservancy in Louisville, Kentucky. Foley also lectures and leads workshops on garden photography. Allen received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Kentucky in 1973 and was an International Trainee at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, England 1978 1979. Foreword Autho
Now, grandchildren live next door, taking their own little path to the rock ledge pool. First they planted those ubiquitous rows of red tulips and daffodils then later, sweeps of grasses and rare trees, as they embraced an entirely different aesthetic through the eyes and guiding hand of Kurt Bluemel. But it's the Hubbards' story, paired with depictions of the garden throughout the year, that makes this book a pleasure for all season. Kathy Hudson s On Walnut Hill: The Evolution of a Garden, is not just a well-told tale of A.C. At a time of year when hostess gifts are in high demand, this chronicle of the Hubbard family's five-decade quest to turn their two-acre property in Ruxton Maryland into a garden might be just the ticket. Any great garden changes with the seasons, and every hour of the day, but this one has changed the Hubbards and become their world. The Hubbards square spaces gave way to curvilinear paths; masses of perennials and groundcovers
This is the story of a garden. The garden began in 1969, when A.C. Bluemel s fellow plantsman, Allen Bush, contributes a foreword. Over nearly a half-century, passionate gardeners A.C. and Penney Hubbard collaborated with renowned plantsman, the late Kurt Bluemel, to transform a two-acre hillside into a horticultural masterpiece. and Penney Hubbard moved to Walnut Hill in Ruxton, Maryland. The new book ON WALNUT HILL features essays and text by noted garden writer Kathy Hudson and the images of award-winning photographer Roger Foley. Listed in the Smithsonian Archives of American G
John Tagliabue said On Walnut Hill, A Gift for All Seasons. Kathy Hudson's On Walnut Hill: The Evolution of a Garden is one of those rare garden books that does far more than tell the story of a showcase garden. Hudson's spare prose, combined with award-winning landscape photographer Roger Foley's lush photos, paint a verbal and visual history of this spectacular garden, which utterly transformed. "A beautiful book" according to Amazon Customer. I curled up one afternoon during the recent blizzard with a cup of tea and this book and was lost to the world for the next several hours. The photography is stunning and moves effortlessly between botanical studies of plants and portraits of the garden as a whole. Kathy Hudson's prose poems are lovely and I imagine I will reread them as. With Kathy Hudson’s almost painterly essays and Roger Foley’s striking With Kathy Hudson’s almost painterly essays and Roger Foley’s striking images, On Walnut Hill will inspire gardeners of all kinds. Whether you’re planning to transform your entire property or simply tweak around the edges, this lovely book is full of ideas, shown in Foley’s award-winning photographs and told in Hu