In the Footsteps of Kate O. Sessions: A Visit to William Robinson at Gravetye Manor

摘要

Katherine Olivia Sessions (1857-1940) enjoyed every gardener's dream vacation in 1925. During that year, the San Diego nursery owner and horticulturist spent seven months touring gardens in Great Britain and Europe. She took in the famed Chelsea Flower Show, collectedcuttings from botanical gardens, and hobnobbed with leading horticulturists from Scotland to Italy. In long letters home, Sessions left a record of her travels with enough detail to guide a garden tour, but, after eight decades, the modern traveler would find it difficult to duplicate her experience. The sustained or recreated historical garden can approximate, but never fully duplicate an earlier iteration. Even when being consciously conserved, gardens evolve over time.