On Walnut Hill - The Evolution Of A Garden - Hardcover

For more than four decades, passionate gardeners, A.C. and Penney Hubbard, collaborated with the renowned plantsman, the late Kurt Bluemel, to transform a hillside near Baltimore, Maryland, into a horticultural masterpiece. In On Walnut Hill: The Evolution of a Garden, writer Kathy Hudson chronicles the story of the garden and the Hubbard family in their garden. Award-winning landscape photographer Roger Foley brings to life the elegant garden as it changes over the course of a year — from a still and stately winter garden to its spring profusion, strong summer color, and final autumnal splendor. Foley’s exquisite photographs showcase the artistry, nuance, and horticultural diversity in the Hubbard garden. Guided by Bluemel’s genius for bringing life and movement to the landscape with his trademark grasses and perennials, the Hubbards transformed the two acres surrounding their 1937 Colonial Revival house into a world-class Eden. On Walnut Hill invites readers to accompany the Hubbards as they grow from weekend gardeners to respected horticulturalists amassing outstanding collections of conifers, acers, perennials, rare and unusual trees, and sculpture. Listed in the Smithsonian Archives of American Gardens, the Hubbard garden has been featured in Baltimore Style, Baltimore magazine, The Baltimore Sun, Professional Builder & Remodeler, Better Homes and Gardens, and Southern Living. It has been included on numerous local and national tours of the Horticultural Society of Maryland, Ladew Topiary Gardens, The Garden Conservancy, The Garden Club of America, and the Perennial Plant Association. On Walnut Hill offers an intimate, behind-the-scenes look at the creation of a world-class garden. It is a story of passion, artistry, and, above all, a family’s love for the land on which they live.As Anne Raver, former garden columnist of The New York Times, says: "Any great garden changes with the seasons, and every hour of the day, but this one has changed the Hubbards and become their world."

Kathy Hudson has been a writer for 30 years. For decades she has written garden articles for Baltimore Style magazine, Baltimore Fishbowl, The Baltimore Sun, Chesapeake Life, and Chesapeake Home. Her bimonthly essays have appeared as Hudson s Corner in The Baltimore Messenger since 1995. She worked at the Library of Congress and for 11 years at Maryland Public Television before returning to her childhood home in Baltimore, Maryland, where she tends the garden with her husband, the painter Greg Otto.

Photographer Roger Foley specializes in landscape architecture and garden design. His work has been featured in hundreds of books, magazine articles, and websites. He is the sole photographer of eight garden books, two of which won Award of the Year from the Garden Writers Association. His previous book, A Clearing in the Woods: Creating Contemporary Gardens, features gardens by noted landscape architects and designers across the country. Foley also lectures and leads workshops on garden photography. Foreword Author Allen Bush has been with Jelitto Perennial Seeds since 1995 and currently serves as Director of Special Projects. Jelitto offers over 3,000 varieties of perennials, herbs and ornamental grass seeds. Allen coordinates public relations, works with domestic seed producers and searches for potential new varieties around the world. From 1980 1995 Allen was the owner of Holbrook Farm and Nursery, Fletcher, NC, a national mail order nursery growing perennials, wildflowers and rare trees and shrubs. Allen introduced to the US market: Stokesia Klaus Jelitto and the sweetshrub, Calycanthus Michael Lindsey . In 2002, The Royal Horticultural Society awarded the Award of Garden Merit (A.G.M.) to Heuchera Molly Bush . Allen received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Kentucky in 1973 and was an International Trainee at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, England 1978 1979. He has been a regular contributor to the Garden Rant since 2013 and serves on the board of the Olmsted Parks Conservancy in Louisville, Kentucky.