A Moment in Time (Book Only)

In her book A Moment in Time: Designing a Country Garden, the award-winning landscape designer Kathryn Herman presents a four-season exploration of her own home, the historic Pepperidge Farm estate in Connecticut, which she has tended and developed lovingly for over 30 years. Her garden is a favorite destination in the Garden Conservancy Open Days program. Herman is well-known for creating poetic gardens that are contemporary yet inspired by quintessential English gardens— perfect for today’s lifestyles and a lovely way to update and complement a historic house. Here, she breaks down her design process by touring her garden in sections and adding thematic essays full of a career’s worth of tips and tricks so all home gardeners can adapt elements of her approach themselves. Join an online discussion and gain insights into elements such as form and structure, color, ornament, incorporating history, creating meadows, cultivating an orchard, planning a perennial garden, making a garden appealing to wildlife, and planning for seasonality.

About the Speaker

KATHRYN HERMAN is founding Principal of her Connecticut-based landscape architecture firm. Her work encompasses a wide range of distinguished residential estates and select commercial projects across the United States, Europe, the Caribbean, and the Middle East. She has received numerous honors including American Society of Landscape Architects awards, Palladio Awards for excellence in classical design, and the Arthur Ross Award. Her projects have been featured in publications such as Veranda, Architectural Digest, House & Garden UK, and The Wall Street Journal.