Tom Christopher on Wave Hill - A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach - September 23, 2019

September 21, 2019 00:26:02
Tom Christopher on Wave Hill - A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach - September 23, 2019
MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN
Tom Christopher on Wave Hill - A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach - September 23, 2019

Sep 21 2019 | 00:26:02

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Show Notes

We can look at great gardens as works of art being delighted purely by the visuals or we can dig a bit deeper as we tour these landscapes and look for clues on how to become great gardeners ourselves. Now a new book about Wave Hill, the world renowned public garden in New York City, does just that. “Nature Into Art: The Gardens of Wave Hill” lets us feast on the design daring, the color plays, the garden pictures captured in its extravagant photography, but at the same time it tells us how they were accomplished, teaching us the tenants of the Wave Hill way of gardening that we can put into practice at home.  

Tom Christopher, a graduate of New York Botanical Garden School of Professional Horticulture and longtime garden writer and friend, wrote the new book. And along the way even Tom, with all his prior training, enjoyed a sort of insider's advanced course in garden making and maintaining. He's here to share some of the many Wave Hill “aha’s” gleaned along the way. 

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