Autobiography of a Garden follows Patterson Webster's
twenty-five-year journey as she transforms a beautiful but
conventional country property into a 750-acre landscape that
challenges what a garden is, or can be. A unique, personal memoir,
this book details how a neophyte gardener moved from copying the
ideas of other people to learning from them, and finally to
striking out on her own. Combining traditions from French and
English eighteenth-century gardens with contemporary perspectives,
Webster communicates concepts and ideas that underpin the garden's
design, sharing a process that evolved over seasons and years. She
explores the meaning of creating a garden and the meaning that a
garden can create, linking ideas about aging and the passage of
time to the reality of growth and death in the landscape and
thinking through how art in a garden can reframe questions of
memory and our relationship to nature. Using the history of the
property as a framework, Webster considers the impact made by those
who lived on the land before her: the Abenaki, the early settlers,
the cottagers, the farmers, the US southerners who came to Quebec
to avoid the summer heat, and the northerners who defeated them in
the Civil War. With engaging personal anecdotes, she describes the
thinking behind each part of the garden and the examples that
guided her, the mishaps and successes she encountered, and her
plans for the future. Beautifully photographed and full of
inspirational ways of thinking about gardens and gardening,
Autobiography of a Garden blends history, horticulture, and art,
encouraging readers to make their own surroundings more beautiful
and more meaningful.
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