Whenever we visit gardens, what we see is just a snapshot in time. We're left wondering what the garden might look like at other times of the year. Some years ago, when I visited Innisfree, I vowed to go back in another season ... and still haven't made it.
But now, in his latest book, Garden Portraits: Experiences of Natural Beauty
Lederman has photographed 16 landscapes in Connecticut and New York's lower Hudson Valley. You may recognize some of the public gardens: Innistree, the masterpiece by the late LA Lester Collins, or the Japanese Garden At Kykuit, the Rockefeller Estate in Pocantino Hills, NY. But there are also many private gardens, including those owned by jazz great Dave Brubeck, classical antiquities dealer Edward Merrin, philanthropist Lewis Cullman.
In a forward to the book, NY Botanical Garden President Emeritus Gregory Long says "the owners of the gardens in this book will see vistas, patterns, designs on the land they did not know they possess." And he adds about Lederman's work: "The garden portraits here are also very clearly offered up as visual tone poems inspired by places he has come to love."
Each garden portrait includes an essay about the garden itself, accompanied by stunning photographs that catch the gardens in all their glory. There is much to learn about the placement of plants and garden elements ... and you'll turn to this book again and again for landscape design inspiration.
Join Lederman and Long for a lecture on the book via zoom at 1pm EST
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