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

Tuesday, February 18, 2025 | 11 AM PST | Zoom Program
Member tickets, $10
Non-members, $20

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Cost: $10 HPSO Members / $20 Non-members

HPSO member Jill Nooney's new book Bedrock: The Making of a Public Garden is a love letter from a woman to the extensive garden she spent 40 years creating. A psychotherapist and graduate of the Radcliffe Seminars Program in Landscape Design, Jill and her husband Bob Munger, a physician, developed their 30 acres in Lee, New Hampshire into an unforgettable garden. The couple developed the garden over four-decades, one step at a time, while they were both working full time and raising 3 sons.

Today, many visitors want to tell the creators how much the garden means to them. As Jill said recently, “I am often overwhelmed by the joy people feel in the garden and by their desire to thank us. After all, I really made the garden for myself as my own sanctuary. It was just Bob and I experimenting with creating things I dreamed up. I never imagined how much it would come to mean to so many people in our community and further.”

Jill will be sharing this journey from a private to a public garden (with over 12,000 visitors a year) in a Zoom presentation with images of plants, beautifully composed garden vignettes, Jill’s unique sculptures, water features, and built structures.