Focusing on gardeners' words about the art of gardening, Writing the Garden brings together a diverse array of authors. For the most part they are not professional landscape designers or how-to horticulturalists but rather hands-on gardeners who write with their own gardens in full view. Ranging in time and place from Enlightenment France to modern-day New York City, they invite the reader into the natural world of soil and flowers, insects and sun, pride and frustration. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Thomas Jefferson, Henry David Thoreau, Gertrude Jekyll, Vita Sackville-West, Russell Page, Lynden Miller, and Michael Pollan are among the fifty writers excerpted and discussed.
This book is published by The New York Society Library and the Foundation for Landscape Studies in association with David R. Godine, Publisher, to coincide with the Library's current exhibition, Writing the Garden.
