Du Pont Gardens of the Brandywine Valley

Celebrates the Du Pont family heritage of land stewardship and horticultural creativity Renowned as the first family of American horticulture, the du Ponts created magnificent landscapes and gardens that complement the verdant, rolling lands of the Brandywine Valley. Five of their estates - Hagley, Nemours, Mt. Cuba, Winterthur, and Longwood Gardens - are open to the public, each a showplace of formal plantings juxtaposed with carefully nurtured natural woodland. Larry Ledermans photographs capture the essence of these sites, moving through the seasons and through the day from dawn to dusk.

Landscape photographer Larry Lederman is the author of Magnificent Trees of the New York Botanical Garden, The Rockefeller Family Gardens, and Garden Portraits: Experiencing Natural Beauty. Marta McDowell is a garden historian and writer whose books include Emily Dickinsons Gardening Life, Unearthing the Secret Garden, and Beatrix Potters Gardening Life. Charles A. Birnbaum, president of The Cultural Landscape Foundation, is the editor of Experiencing Olmsted, a survey of parks and public spaces.