Quite a tale over many decades of how my “Capability Brown” husband, Charles Raskob Robinson, was eager to transform the landscape around our pre-revolutionary farmhouse in Washington, Connecticut. A wreck when we bought it with no garden and I was not a gardener. It is quite a tale of evolution and creation.
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 979-8-218-18923-5
Size: 7 x 10”
Pages: 269
Published: 2023
$45.00
This is the garden love story of Charlie and Barbara Robinson and of Brush Hill, the garden they created together over five decades. Narrated by Barbara, it is the story of how two people of very different temperaments and skills worked to create a place of great beauty. Brush Hill covers over 10 acres of gardens, with formal flower borders, a rose garden, vegetable garden, woodland walks, all created and tended by Barbara, and a number of garden features and structures all built by Charlie, including a large pond, bridges, arches and his Waterworks with 14 pools, rills and waterfalls. Each year visitors and tour groups from near and far are welcome. Barbara makes clear that while they were busy creating this magical garden, the garden was working its magic on them. Full of wonders and frustrations of the garden, this delightful tale will appeal to serious gardeners, want-to-be-gardeners and non-gardeners alike. Their ongoing love story offers inspiration, encouragement, honest and funny tales of garden mistakes and the seriously hard work that a garden entails, along with the garden’s many joys.