Listen to the Land: Creating a Southern Woodland Garden

In Mountain Brook, Alabama, a suburb of Birmingham, homes are often passed from one generation to the next. Such is the story of Louise Agee Wrinkle, who remembers her childhood at 2 Beechwood Road, when there was little more than woods, a bridle trail, and a brook. As a child, she called the property The Jungle because it was so overgrown. Today, that land features a well-cultivated woodland garden. Wrinkle shares memorable stories of her youth, her return to the property as an adult, and ...