Gardening Like
an Artist
Seeds, seasons, and a life built slowly.
Sue Libertiny
I’m Sue Libertiny. I’m building a new garden in Kentucky (Zone 6B) called Sugar Hill. While we’re building, I’m gardening in a temporary space I call Rabbit Run—it’s my testing ground, where I’m figuring out how to work with Kentucky’s heavy clay soil.
I’ve spent the last 30 years building gardens, studying historic gardeners, and visiting famous landscapes to learn what makes a garden truly remarkable. Now I get to take all those lessons to create a garden from scratch.
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Field Notes
Garden Moxie Field Notes is a newsletter about building beauty slowly. Historical wisdom, seasonal observations, and honest documentation of a garden in the making. It arrives in your inbox every other week.
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On April 6, 1947, Vita Sackville-West wrote an article about a group of annuals to give a brilliant blue effect. The list included Phacelia campanularia which is one of the seeds that earned a place in my garden this year.