Spring may be here, but for many, it has not quite sprung: most cities in the Northern hemisphere have maintained winter-like temperatures throughout the first week of the new season. So until the weather starts to cooperate, we here at Vogue are revisiting “The Garden Path”, an April 1997 story by Michael Pollan where the author tours some of the most charming gardens in America, from a Litchfield, Connecticut plot overflowing with foxgloves to a backyard bursting with yellow mullein. “I don’t think that I’ve ever visited a garden without finding something to steal. No, not the statuary or the garden tools, not even a cutting—though I confess to having swiped a few seeds in my time,” he writes. “What I take away are ideas: for a particularly winning combination of perennials, a vine sufficiently masochistic to handle a north wall in my Zone Five garden, or maybe some neat trick for hiding the shins of my roses.” May we all see the bud of a crocus sometime soon. |
