{"product_id":"winterthur-garden-9780810937796","title":"Winterthur Garden","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Winterthur Garden is the story of Henry Francis du Ponts lifelong love affair with his home  as well as a biography of one of Americas great public gardens. Author 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 can 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 known 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. While  today  the garden may appear to be an informal  almost unplanned assemblage of plant varieties and colors  blooming in coincidental  if exquisite  sequence  in truth  nearly every square inch and every happy juxtaposition of color were meticulously planned by its loving owner. The text  which also features additional essays contributed by specialists from numerous 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 Winterthurs current director  Leslie Greene Bowman.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67959328702517,"sku":"ByrdShop_0810937794","price":27.66,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780810937796.jpg?v=1794484442","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/winterthur-garden-9780810937796","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}