For those who feel the pull of a great garden
Great gardens and the people who make them.
Sue Libertiny
I’m a former mechanical engineer who walked away from a career to build a garden on 20 acres of Kentucky land.
My love of gardens started with a friend and a handful of perennial divisions. She was dividing plants from her own garden and offered me some. I was newly married with a new house. I grew up watching my mother and grandmother garden — so the plants were familiar, but the garden was mine for the first time. They grew. They looked beautiful. And something that had been quiet in me for a long time stopped being quiet.
Garden Moxie
Field Notes
Garden Moxie Field Notes is a letter that arrives every other week. Part seasonal diary, part deep dive into the history and art of the garden world. For those who feel the pull of a great garden.
Latest Video
This week I was looking through a gorgeous garden diary written in 1906 by Edith Holden. Edith wrote the diary to capture the changing seasons of the English countryside. It ended up becoming a book, The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady. This book was the inspiration for this week’s video.