A Garden is Not a Painting is – or rather, will be – a book about gardening. About plants. About the weather. But above all, it’s about the joy of making something living and growing with it.
For more than a year, writer Lucy Munro and photographer Brigid Arnott followed renowned Australian gardener Carolyn Robinson through the seasons as she tended her magnificent five-acre garden near Tenterfield, NSW.
Together we are making a book to record Carolyn’s philosophies and the practical lessons she has learned over a lifetime in the garden. And I am going to publish it.
“Along the way I came to see that a garden is not a painting to hang on a wall. It is alive and ever-changing,” said Carolyn.
“My hope is that by sharing these hard-earned lessons – especially with newer gardeners – others can avoid the pitfalls I made along the way, and instead find joy in cultivating a manageable, thriving garden.”
We had hoped to host a garden party and tour in Carolyn’s never-open-to-the-public garden this April to fund production and printing costs for the book, but the lack of rain means we will postpone. We’ll reschedule when it starts to rain again.
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Me too!
I’m keen for both .. plus I’ll get to see you too sweet Annabelle