Montpelier, Vermont
Amy’s Garden
Visit from the Hardy Plant Club
As long as there are plants at all, and as longs as the gardener is human, and as long as the garden is an important part of the gardener’s leisure, there will be a bond or a spirit between all gardens of whatever type.
-Henry Mitchell, On Gardening
DEDICATION BY GLORIANNA
To our Nahnie who encouraged us to admire the bones of her garden, even as we helped maintain it. To my mentor in film who with extraordinary intuition capture was able to capture life as it happened through moving compositions of light and shadow. To my sisters who have generously invited me to be present occasionally as they shape windows of their gardens.
A garden changes through the natural processes of growth and death. The living elements of the garden are always expanding or shrinking, changing color, texture, even form, with the seasons. It’s this that make garden design so uniquely challenging and rewarding. The choreographer or the composer sets the time in a dance or ballad; in the garden, nature keeps the beat, which means that the progress, even for the most expert gardener, is always, unpredictable. A garden is always, ultimately, a mystery.
-James van Sweden, “The Artful Garden”
When the eye is trained to perceive pictorial effect, it is frequently struck by something—some combination of grouping, lighting and colour—that is seen to have that complete aspect of unity and beauty that to the artists’s eye forms a picture. Such are the impressions that the artist-gardener endeavors to produce in every portion of the garden.
-Gertrude Jekyll, “Colour Schemes for the Flower Garden”
Thanksgivings at Amy & Johns
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