Windcliff : a story of people, plants, and gardens /
Hinkley, Daniel J.,
Windcliff : a story of people, plants, and gardens / Daniel J. Hinkley ; photography by Claire Takacs. - 279 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Includes index. Garden maps on endpapers.
Preface: Memory and process -- Finding a new garden -- Design principles -- The bluff -- The house and terrace -- The potager -- The nursery -- The meadow -- Guardians of memory -- Afterword: Finales and finials.
The author relates his life experiences creating gardens and thoughts on garden design along with particular details about his creating the private garden of Windcliff, against the backdrop of its predecessor, Heronswood. Dan Hinkley’s Windcliff: A Story of People, Plants and Gardens is largely about his home garden in Indianola, Washington, where he has resided for the last 20 years with his husband, Robert Jones. As hinted at in the subtitle, the book is also a memoir about Hinkley’s youth in a small, Michigan town and the worldwide network of friends and colleagues he has developed through horticulture and plant exploration.
The area around the house is where the visions of Hinkley and architect Jones intersect. The give-and-take will amuse and inform couples that have a similar dynamic. Throughout the writing, Hinkley’s wry sense of humor and deep sensibilities of the emotional importance of gardens is very clear. 'There are more approaches, more tricks to the trade, undoubtedly as many as there are good gardeners. Yet the yearning for beauty, whatever that may be, is the same. It is not intentional nor is it fully accidental. There is no endpoint or possession.
[excerpted from a longer review by Brian Thompson]
1604699019 9781604699012
Hinkley, Daniel J.
Gardeners--United States--Biography.
Gardens--Washington (State)--Biography.
Windcliff : a story of people, plants, and gardens / Daniel J. Hinkley ; photography by Claire Takacs. - 279 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Includes index. Garden maps on endpapers.
Preface: Memory and process -- Finding a new garden -- Design principles -- The bluff -- The house and terrace -- The potager -- The nursery -- The meadow -- Guardians of memory -- Afterword: Finales and finials.
The author relates his life experiences creating gardens and thoughts on garden design along with particular details about his creating the private garden of Windcliff, against the backdrop of its predecessor, Heronswood. Dan Hinkley’s Windcliff: A Story of People, Plants and Gardens is largely about his home garden in Indianola, Washington, where he has resided for the last 20 years with his husband, Robert Jones. As hinted at in the subtitle, the book is also a memoir about Hinkley’s youth in a small, Michigan town and the worldwide network of friends and colleagues he has developed through horticulture and plant exploration.
The area around the house is where the visions of Hinkley and architect Jones intersect. The give-and-take will amuse and inform couples that have a similar dynamic. Throughout the writing, Hinkley’s wry sense of humor and deep sensibilities of the emotional importance of gardens is very clear. 'There are more approaches, more tricks to the trade, undoubtedly as many as there are good gardeners. Yet the yearning for beauty, whatever that may be, is the same. It is not intentional nor is it fully accidental. There is no endpoint or possession.
[excerpted from a longer review by Brian Thompson]
1604699019 9781604699012
Hinkley, Daniel J.
Gardeners--United States--Biography.
Gardens--Washington (State)--Biography.