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Winterthur Garden

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The Winterthur Garden is the story of Henry Francis du Pont’s lifelong love affair with his home, in addition to a biography of one of The united states’s great public gardens. Creator Denise Magnani, curator of landscape at Winterthur, offers an engagingly intimate portrait of the man and his environment, documenting the evolution of a single garden and detailing its relationship to the interior of the house, from which it may be viewed. The masterpiece that du Pont created in Wilmington, Delaware, is now open for the public to enjoy, but for years it functioned as a private horticultural laboratory where du Pont – primarily referred to as a visionary collector of works of the American decorative arts – experimented as much with the landscape as with individual plant species gathered from the far corners of the globe. Whilst, today, the garden may seem to be an informal, almost unplanned assemblage of plant varieties and colors, blooming in coincidental, if exquisite, sequence, in fact, nearly each square inch and each happy juxtaposition of color were meticulously planned by its loving owner. The text, which also features additional essays contributed by specialists from a large number of disciplines, is breathtakingly illustrated by lush photographs of the garden taken by landscape photographer Carol Betsch. This newly issued paperback edition of the book features a completely new foreword by Winterthur’s current director, Leslie Greene Bowman.

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