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There aren’t many books more beloved than The Tale of Peter Rabbit and even fewer authors as iconic as Beatrix Potter. Her characters—Peter Rabbit, Jemima Puddle Duck, and all the rest—exist in a charmed world filled with flowers and gardens. In Beatrix Potter’s Gardening Life, bestselling author Marta McDowell explores the origins of Beatrix Potter’s love of gardening and plants and shows how this passion came to be reflected in her work.

The book begins with a gardener’s biography, highlighting the key moments and places throughout her life that helped define her. Next, follow Beatrix Potter through a year in her garden, with a season-by-season overview of what is blooming that truly brings her gardens alive. The book culminates in a traveler’s guide, with information on how and where to visit Potter’s gardens today.

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Marta McDowell

Marta McDowell lives, gardens, and writes in Chatham, New Jersey. She consults for public gardens and private clients, writes and lectures on gardening topics, and teaches landscape history and horticulture at the New York Botanical Garden, where she studied landscape design. Her particular interest is in authors and their gardens, the connection between the pen and the trowel.

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Beatrix Potter's Gardening Life - Marta McDowell

BEATRIX POTTER’S

GARDENING LIFE

Beatrix Potter on holiday at Holehird, Windermere, 1889

BEATRIX POTTER’S

GARDENING LIFE

The plants and places that inspired the classic children’s tales

MARTA McDOWELL

TIMBER PRESS

Portland • London

Frederick Warne & Co. is the owner of all rights, copyrights, and trademarks in the Beatrix Potter character names and illustrations. Unless otherwise noted on pages 322–323 (Photography & Illustration Sources & Credits), images used in this book are copyright © Frederick Warne & Co., reproduced by permission of Frederick Warne & Co.

Published in 2013 by Timber Press, Inc.

Printed in China

Book design by Marla Sidrow

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

McDowell, Marta.

Beatrix Potter’s gardening life : the plants and places that inspired the classic children’s tales / Marta McDowell.—1st ed.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-60469-363-8

1. Potter, Beatrix, 1866-1943. 2. Potter, Beatrix, 1866-1943—Homes and haunts—England. 3. Gardens—England. I. Title.

PR6031.O72Z74 2013

823'.912—dc23

2013001143

A catalog record for this book is also available from the British Library.

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For Kirke

PREFACE

PART ONE

Beatrix Potter, Her Life as a Gardener

Germination

Offshoots

Flowering

Roots

Ripening

Setting Seed

PART TWO

The Year in Beatrix Potter’s Gardens

Winter

Spring

Summer

Autumn

PART THREE

Visiting Beatrix Potter’s Gardens

BEATRIX POTTER’S PLANTS

NOTES & FURTHER READING

PHOTOGRAPHY & ILLUSTRATION SOURCES & CREDITS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

INDEX

THE FLOWERS LOVE the house, they try to come in. The golden flowered great St. Johns wort pushes up between the flags in the porch, it has peeped up between the skirting and the flags inside the porch place before now. And the old lilac bush that blew down had its roots under the parlour floor, when they lifted the boards. Houseleek grows on the window sills and ledges; wisteria climbs the wall; clematis chokes the spout’s casings. Wall flowers and cabbage roses in season; rosemary and blue gentian, and earliest to flower the red pyrus Japanese quince—but nothing more sweet than the old pink cabbage rose that peeps in at the small paned windows.

—Beatrix Potter’s description of Hill Top, part of an unpublished sequel to The Fairy Caravan

PREFACE

FIRST, A CONFESSION. I did not read Beatrix Potter as a child. In fact, I learned about Peter Rabbit from a knockoff of sorts. The spoiled youngest of four, I would steadily pester my mother for books on outings to Woolworths, and one day she bought me a shiny-covered Golden Book called Little Peter Cottontail by Thornton W. Burgess. Its naughty rabbit cavorted in wildflowers and visited a farm, but never found Mr. McGregor’s garden. My introduction to Beatrix Potter came much later in life.

In 1981, at a shower celebrating my upcoming nuptials, someone gave me a large cookie jar in the shape of a bonneted, apron-bedecked porcupine holding an iron. Wedding showers are awkward at best, particularly for learning about famous characters from childhood literature that one has somehow, in two-plus decades of life, managed to miss. What did I say when opening this gift in front of a sizeable, entirely female audience of friends, family, and future relations? That memory is lost. I have also repressed the identity of the gift-giver. Neither the Mrs. Tiggy-winkle cookie jar (a hedgehog, if you please) nor the marriage lasted long.

Fast-forward to 1997, when I set off with my second (and last) husband and two aged parents for a tour of Scotland and the Lake District. William Wordsworth was on our agenda. His homes, Dove Cottage and Rydal Mount, are both near Grasmere and not far from Windermere, where we were staying. And what of Beatrix Potter, that children’s author and artist?

Our visit to Hill Top Farm, Miss Potter’s beloved home on the other side of Windermere, turned out to be a highlight. For one thing, the sun came out that afternoon after a week of Scotland in the rain. (My mother, who had brought only one pair of shoes—my father would blow-dry them for her every night in our B&B—was especially grateful.) The Hill Top garden was at its August peak; the tour was engaging.

I learned that day that Beatrix Potter was a gardener. I garden, though some days I feel that I do most of my gardening at the keyboard. I am intrigued by writers who garden and by gardeners who write. The pen and the trowel are not interchangeable, but seem often linked. Emily Dickinson, poet and gardener, has long been an obsession of mine. Edith Wharton interests me, and Jane Austen, both novelists with a gardening bent. I once read all of Nathaniel Hawthorne, winnowing his words for horticultural references. Gertrude Jekyll and Vita Sackville-West also oblige. And now there was Beatrix Potter.

A rabbit sets off to garden, later adapted for Peter Rabbit’s Almanac for 1929

So Beatrix Potter and the idea of her garden simmered quietly at the back of my mind. Over the years I saw some of Potter’s marvelous botanical watercolors at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and the Morgan Library & Museum in New York. Miss Potter, a Hollywood film, came and went. An adroit article by Peter Parker appeared in the gardening journal Hortus. But one day at the New York Botanical Garden shop, two books lay side by side on a display table: a new edition of Potter’s The Complete Tales and Linda Lear’s biography, Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature. The simmer turned to a boil.

A few explanatory notes. You may be relieved or perturbed, depending on your druthers, that I have avoided botanical names in most of the book. Beatrix was not impressed with gardener’s Latin, so I have bowed to her feelings on the matter. For those of you who are looking for these particulars, you will find lists of the plants she grew, wrote about, and illustrated, including their proper nomenclature, at the end of the book. Her grammar, punctuation, and spelling were loose, particularly in her letters, but they are reproduced as she wrote them. I would encourage you to have copies of her Tales at hand. The stories with their illustrations are a joy to read. They will increase your understanding of both Beatrix Potter and her gardens.

Part One is a gardener’s biography of Beatrix Potter. In terms of her own name, I must beg her pardon on two counts. First, for taking the liberty of referring to her by her Christian name, I plead twenty-first-century customs. Second, during her married years I have generally stuck to her maiden name rather than switching to her preferred Mrs. Heelis. As she continued to use Potter professionally throughout her life, she would, I think, understand that it is by that name that we continue to know her best.

Part Two follows Beatrix Potter through a year in her gardens. When she lived with her husband at Castle Cottage, it is not always clear whether she and her correspondents are discussing the garden there or across the road at Hill Top Farm. So in describing the progress of her gardens through the seasons I hope I will be forgiven for smudging the lines a bit, as her efforts and enjoyment encompassed both.

Part Three is a traveler’s guide, intended as a lure to discover or rediscover Beatrix Potter’s Lake District and the other parts of Great Britain that influenced her. The gardens at Hill Top Farm alone would merit a visit, and there are many other gardens and landscapes that still have echoes of her.

Welcome to Beatrix Potter’s gardens …

PART ONE

Beatrix Potter, Her Life as a Gardener

Beatrix Potter in the front porch at Hill Top Farm, 1913

EVERY GARDEN TELLS A STORY, if you know how to read it. The story of Beatrix Potter’s garden begins on an October day in the village of Sawrey in the north of England.

A woman walks up a rise toward a farmhouse, tape measure in hand. She is small in stature, and some gray hairs are wound into her otherwise brown bun. Tiny lines around her mouth would fold into a smile, if there were one. It seems like happiness is not something she expects. She has just signed the contract for Hill Top Farm, her first property. Her blue eyes are wide, imagining the garden she will lay out, its walls and walks, and perhaps a long trellis like the one at her uncle’s home in Wales.

Beatrix Potter can picture the garden built and full of flowers: snowdrops in the winter, a spring torrent of lilacs and azaleas and daffodils, summer covered with roses, chrysanthemums for autumn. Fruit trees are a must. A pear tree and some plums can go in with the old apples in the orchard, some currants and gooseberries with the flowers.

She should be happy, this Londoner, realizing the dream of a place of her own in the Lake District, yet an air of sadness clings to her, a hint of loss, like fog that refuses to burn off by midday. It is 1905. The garden beckons as a fresh beginning.

GERMINATION

BEATRIX POTTER was a late bloomer, gardening-wise. By the time she saw the first growing season progress through her garden at Hill Top she would be forty years old. In spite of a somewhat late start, the seeds of Potter’s gardening interests were planted early on.

On a Saturday in the height of summer, July 28, 1866, Beatrix Potter was born at No. 2 Bolton Gardens in London. Her parents, Helen Leech Potter and Rupert Potter, were among the recently rich, due in large part to fathers who had made fortunes in Manchester’s cotton industry. The Potters had just purchased this, their first home, newly built in the leafy neighborhood of South Kensington.

Behind the stylish four-story terrace house, the back garden where Beatrix played as a child was a low-key affair. It was walled to lend privacy and gated for access. A few small trees cast shade. A gravel path surrounded a central rectangular lawn. Between the path and the wall grew a simple bed of shrubs like laurel and aucuba along with a smattering of groundcovers. Hyacinths bloomed there in the spring, their fat, colorful spikes pumping out perfume. Brick set in a sawtooth pattern edged the bed. A rose was trained on the wall along with an assortment of climbing vines.

Beatrix Potter at a garden gate, about 1871

Beatrix Potter’s London

Across the street from No. 2 was a pocket park, a garden square exclusive to residents. To attract affluent buyers, London residential developers as early as the seventeenth century started offering a private park as an amenity. By the Potters’ day such parks were must-have features for the fashionable. It was a bit of country in the city, rus in urbe. As was usual, the Potters paid for the privilege of the park. A garden tax covered their share of its upkeep. In exchange, they received a key to its iron gate. Young Beatrix, under the authority of Nurse MacKenzie, knew its shaded walks, winding through shrubberies, around lawns, and alongside flowerbeds.

Beatrix and her nurse continued their constitutionals to the Royal Horticultural Society’s Horticultural Gardens, a pinnacle of Victorian prowess nestled next to the South Kensington Museum, now the Victoria and Albert Museum. At Beatrix’s child’s-eye view, the intricate flowerbeds (changed seasonally to maintain peak bloom) stretched out in fans and curves of color. The large glass conservatory was warm and tropical in winter, a jungle to a young, imaginative girl. On concert days, musicians played from cast iron bandstands. A tiled arcade lent shade from the sun. The Potters’ male heir, born when Beatrix was almost six, especially enjoyed the water features. Once when Bertram was sailing his boat at the Horticultural Gardens, Beatrix remembered, an elegant young man playing lawn tennis remarked to an elegant young lady, when the boat stuck in the reeds, that it reminded him of ‘Moses in the Ark’. The Gardens were an appropriate venue for chaperoned children, a place where fashionable society strolled.

The square at Bolton Gardens, photographed by Rupert Potter, 1896

The Horticultural Gardens were just across from Kensington Gardens, another regular destination for Nurse MacKenzie and the children. One of London’s Royal Parks, it was laid out during the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries in the then-popular Dutch style. Symmetry ruled. The great avenues of trees stretched radially from the formal Round Pond. A touch of English landscape style came into the garden with the natural-looking Serpentine, an artificial lake created by damming up Westbourne Stream. Young Beatrix and Bertram ambled among the gentry on the Broad Walk and explored the Flower Walk, playing under the watchful

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Theo picked this off the shelf in the library last week when he ran away from me. I think he recognized the picture on the spine. It proved to be a very enjoyable read. Filled with pictures and drawings it was easy to follow even though I didn't recognize many of the flowers' names.

My Daughter bought this book for me knowing how much I love Beatrix and her tales. I am an obsessive flower gardener and lover of all things in nature. This book was a delight. So often with books like these I never quite finish them but even taking my time to just enjoy this book I read it in a week. After finishing I promptly went on the internet to get an idea how much a trip to see Miss Potter's home would set me back! I will begin saving for this trip tomorrow!

We all know Beatrix Potter from her creation, Peter Rabbit and Flopsy, Mopsy and Cottontail. And we know she was a wonderful artist. But what I didn’t realize was she was much more than an artist/writer. She was an avid gardener and a conservationist. Gardening was a prominent part of her life and her homes in the English countryside were donated to a land trust and have been preserved.BeatrixPotterFlowers2Beatrix Potter’s Gardening Life is a wonderful book. Divided into four parts, the first is her biography. But instead of being a mere narration of her life, it emphasizes her many drawings of flowers, giving examples and explaining how her real life gardens made their way into her books. Her artistry, even at the young age of 10, was apparent and the watercolor with pen and ink drawings throughout the book are testament to her abilities.BeatrixPotterFlowersThe second part of the book describes her garden in the four seasons, with enough current photos, drawings by Potter and quotes about her garden to give readers a fantastic idea of what her garden looked like, how she felt about it and how she tended her garden.The third section prescribes a tour of Potter’s various homes and gardens.BeatrixPotterFlowers3The last section, part of which I found most interesting, was a listing of all the plants Potter grew in her garden and a list of which of her plants appeared in which of her books.If you love flowers and gardening and watercolors of flowers and Peter Rabbit, you will love this book. Small in size. Big in color. It makes me want to visit Potter’s various homes in the English countryside. Just wonderful.

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