master of his craft
Bill Noble says his “Flower Garden’s generous style and the way it frames the view complements the scale of the landscape.” July brings tall stands of delphinium, as well as generous clumps of summer phlox, catmints, filipenulas, bee balm and hydrangeas.
A Garden of One’s Own Not only has Bill Noble preserved
significant public and private
gardens around the country—
he has created
an extraordinary garden at home.
C
reating a garden is a labor of love that
back. “I tried to make a garden that felt right
requires vision, knowledge, patience
for its place,” Noble says. “I also wanted
and hard work. Mix these ingredients
to create a romantic setting and fill it with
with just the right amounts of sun and rain,
interesting plants.”
and add in hardy plants, good soil and lots of
Noble has chronicled this journey in a
TLC, and voila—you will be richly rewarded
new book called Spirit of Place: The Making
over time with a beautiful landscape.
of a New England Garden, which is scheduled
That’s the long story short of how Bill
to be published June 23 by Timber Press.
Noble created the garden surrounding the
He’ll be doing book signings and talks this
mid-nineteenth-century farmhouse just over
summer, and better yet, save Saturday, July
the Connecticut River in Norwich, Vermont,
18 because his garden is scheduled to be
that he’s called home since 1991. Noble was
open to the public on the Garden Conser-
able to build on the bones of the garden that
vancy’s Open Day Tour—see page XX for
once flourished out front and work his magic
more information. Don’t miss this wonderful
on a blank canvas of twenty-two acres out
opportunity as Noble’s garden is included in
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may/june 2020
