Year at Brandywine Cottage: Six Seasons of Beauty, Bounty and Blooms

by David L Culp

Rob Cardillo (Photographer) and Denise Cowie (Secondary Author)

New from the bestselling author of A Layered Garden, A Year at Brandywine Garden shows home gardeners how to enjoy twelve months of their garden's bounty, both outdoors and in. It urges readers to see their home gardens as an important part of a complete and fulfilling lifestyle. How to Live Your Best Gardening Life! David Culp has spent more than 30 years creating Brandywine Cottage - a sensational year-round garden that provides an abundance of joy, both indoors and out. In his new book, he urges home gardeners everywhere to do the same in their own space. Organised by the garden's six natural season, A Year at Brandywine Cottage is packed with fresh ideas and trusted advice, whether it's choosing plants for twelve months of interest, weaving edibles into the mix, or bringing the bounty indoors with simple arrangements and homegrown recipes. Packed with glorious images and practical tips, A Year at Brandywine Cottage will inspire you to live a life enriched by nature every day of the year. AUTHOR: Along with his partner, Michael Alderfer, David Culp is the creator of the gardens at Brandywine Cottage in Downingtown, Pennsylvania. David has been lecturing about gardens nationwide for more than 25 years. His articles have appeared in Country Living, Fine Gardening, Green Scene, and many other publications. He is a former contributing editor to Horticulture magazine and served as chairman of the Mid-Atlantic Hardy Plant Society. An expert on herbaceous perennials, David is vice president for Sunny Border Nurseries in Connecticut. He developed the Brandywine Hybrid strain of hellebores and was cited in the Wall Street Journal for his expertise on snowdrops. The garden at Brandywine Cottage has been featured several times in Martha Stewart Living and on HGTV. 300 colour photographs

• ISBN13: 9781604698565
• Publish Date: 31 March 2020
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: Timber Press
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 296
• Language: English

Reviews

[annieb123]

Originally published on my blog: Nonstop Reader.

A Year at Brandywine Cottage is an inspirational technique and selection guide by David L. Culp. Due out 31st March 2020 from Timber Press, it's 336 pages and will be available in hardcover and ebook formats.

This is a beautifully formatted and well written book following a calendar year through the seasons (there are 6 chapters, summer and winter by themselves and early and late spring and fall treated as 4 distinct entities). Between the photographs and descriptions of different aspects of the cottage gardens the author and his partner have developed over the past 3 decades are naturalistic arrangements of flowers and greenery for inspiration as well as simple and elegant recipes.

The photography by Rob Cardillo is top notch and beautiful. This would make a superlative coffee table book for gardeners, especially those from the eastern continental climate in North America.

Really lovely book, five stars.

Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes