A Garden for All Seasons captures Marjorie Post's garden landscape, set on twenty-five acres in Washington, D.C. Working with prominent landscape architects Umberto Innocenti, Richard Webel, and Perry Wheeler, Post envisioned a setting with a diverse and fascinating array of trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants, offering something to see in every season.
Thirteen acres of formal gardens extend from the house's terraces and porches in a progression of outdoor rooms. Each of these spaces, meant to complement the mansion's interior rooms, encourages an intuitive flow from the French parterre to the rose garden, onto the Friendship Walk and the vast Lunar Lawn, location of many of Post's legendary entertainments. Readers will find inspiration in the newly commissioned photography, while historic images bring context to the beautiful landscape. Although she was in residence at Hillwood only in the spring and fall, Post designed the gardens to flower in all seasons. Today, they are even more glorious all year round for the myriad visitors to the property.
A Garden for All Seasons captures Marjorie Post's garden landscape, set on twenty-five acres in Washington, D.C. Working with prominent landscape architects Umberto Innocenti, Richard Webel, and Perry Wheeler, Post envisioned a setting with a diverse and fascinating array of trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants, offering something to see in every season.
Thirteen acres of formal gardens extend from the house's terraces and porches in a progression of outdoor rooms. Each of these spaces, meant to complement the mansion's interior rooms, encourages an intuitive flow from the French parterre to the rose garden, onto the Friendship Walk and the vast Lunar Lawn, location of many of Post's legendary entertainments. Readers will find inspiration in the newly commissioned photography, while historic images bring context to the beautiful landscape. Although she was in residence at Hillwood only in the spring and fall, Post designed the gardens to flower in all seasons. Today, they are even more glorious all year round for the myriad visitors to the property.
Kate Markert is the executive director of Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens.
"Although the beautiful Washington, D.C., estate of the heiress
Marjorie Merriweather Post is temporarily closed, you can still
wander its lush gardens in this gorgeous coffee-table book. Orchids
bloom in the greenhouse, and fifteen rose cultivars wind through a
fragrant garden awash in pink, red, white, and yellow blooms.
Another note of loveliness: The beloved Virginia-based interior
designer Charlotte Moss writes the foreword." —GARDEN GUN
"While many visitors go to Hillwood to see the collections of
Faberge eggs, Sevres porcelain, Russian Imperial and French
decorative art, others go to see the 13 acres of formal gardens
that will simply take your breath away, even in these times.But
now, you can visit Hillwood in a new book by Hillwood's executive
director, Kate Markert, in A Garden for All Seasons: Marjorie
Merriweather Post's Hillwood(Rizzoli Electa, 2020).Markert takes
you through the history of the gardens, including Post's
collaborations with prominent landscape architects Innocenti Webel
and Perry Wheeler, who helped her realize her vision for the
gardens. As Markert says in the preface to the book, "She
paid attention to every detail of the gardens' design and directed
their creation with specificity and clarity. Each garden room
at Hillwood has its own mood and function, resulting in different
forms of beauty at different times of the year."
—GARDENDESIGNONLINE.COM
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