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A personal story of how an ordinary garden became extraordinary.
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
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Madeline deVries Hooper’s Story
Gardening has been a big part of my entire life. It started when I was six years old. We had just moved into a house from an apartment, and I became my dad’s dedicated gardening helper. I also had woods to play in behind our house, where I collected plants and even built a treehouse with my brother.
During my teenage years I graduated from moving through nature to moving on the dance floor. A new passion emerged, and later in life I became a competitive ballroom dancer and teacher.
For a career, my dream was to be in the fashion business, and I was very lucky that my first full time job was at Bergdorf Goodman, the high-end women’s fashion store on Fifth Avenue. I had the good fortune to be in the right place at the right time because, after one year in a clothing department as a clerical, I was transferred to the PR department as the junior assistant. Lady Luck struck again, and six months later, after my boss had to leave, Mr. Goodman promoted me to Publicity Director of the store. Every day was so exciting. My job was to put on designer fashion shows, attend parties in the Goodmans’ apartment above the store, and work with the media to publicize merchandise that was being featured in the store.