Bedrock: The Making of a Public Garden, with Jill Nooney

Gibson's Bookstore, in partnership with the Concord Garden Club, is pleased to welcome author Jill Nooney for her new book about Bedrock Gardens in Lee, NH, Bedrock: The Making of a Public Garden.

Bedrock: The Making of a Public Garden is a love letter from a woman to the 30 acre garden she spent 40 years creating in Lee, NH. Featuring over 300 photographs of the garden, sculptures, water features, and built structures, the book takes us from the garden’s private origin to a public garden. 

The author's property, acquired from the original owners in 1980, was a 37-acre dairy farm that had been abandoned for about 40 years. The initial years were dedicated to clearing the land of poison ivy and pucker-brush. Work on the farm as a landscaped project started about 1987. Nearly all of the work has been carried out by the two creators. They cleared the…