08/26/2026
Weâre so pleased that Kathryn Herman Design will be joining us for our Book Signing event. In âA Moment in Time: Designing a Country Gardenâ, the celebrated, award-winning landscape designer presents a four-season exploration of her own home, the beloved historic Pepperidge Farm estate in Fairfield, Connecticut, which she has tended to and lovingly designed over thirty years, gradually developing various garden rooms with plenty of details to inspire home gardeners.
Kathryn is well-known and respected both in the local community and nationally, for her high-end, poetic gardens that are contemporary yet full of elegant softness inspired by quintessential English gardensâperfect for todayâs lifestyles and a lovely way to update and complement a historic house. Here, she fully explores her own twenty-acre garden, breaking down her design process by touring the garden in sections and adding thematic essays full of a careerâs worth of tips and tricks so all home gardeners can adapt elements of her approach themselves, including the following: form and structure, color, ornament, incorporating history, layering plantings, creating meadows, cultivating an orchard, planning a perennial garden, creating a pool garden, incorporating edibles and vegetables, making a garden appealing to wildlife, and planning for seasonality (winter structure and interest).
Herman believes that a great garden is laid out to create a series of changing experiences. She guides the reader through the importance of sound, through rustling of leaves or moving water, scent from fragrant shrubs, the touch of a soft, velvety perennial, and many other seasonal and intimate moments, all to enhance the sensual experience of spending time in nature, in oneâs own garden.
