Award winning author and horticulturist to visit Woodstock

FoxTale Book Shoppe welcomes award-winning author and horticulturist Marta McDowell for a book discussion and signing of Beatrix Potter’s Gardening Life on Saturday, November 8 at 1pm. This is a free event, open to the public.

FoxTale co-owner Ellen Ward says, “We are excited to finally bring Marta McDowell to Georgia! We have been planning this event for almost a year, after first falling in love with her book. It makes a great gift for the gardeners in your life and for those who love Beatrix Potter.”

There aren’t many books more beloved than The Tale of Peter Rabbit and even fewer authors as iconic as Beatrix Potter. More than 150 million copies of her books have sold worldwide and interest in her work and life remains high. And her characters— Peter Rabbit, Jemima Puddleduck, and all the rest—exist in a charmed world filled with flowers and gardens.

Beatrix Potter’s Gardening Life is the first book to explore the origins of Beatrix Potter’s love of gardening and plants and show how this passion came to be reflected in her work. The book begins with a gardener’s biography, highlighting the key moments and places throughout her life that helped define her, including her home Hill Top Farm in England’s Lake District. Next, the reader follows Beatrix Potter through a year in her garden, with a season-by-season overview of what is blooming that truly brings her gardens alive. The book culminates in a traveler’s guide, with information on how and where to visit Potter’s gardens today.

Richly illustrated and filled with quotations from her books, letters, and journals, it is essential reading for all who know and cherish Beatrix Potter’s classic tales.

Marta lives, gardens and writes in Chatham, New Jersey. She teaches landscape history and gardening at the The New York Botanical Garden, where she studied landscape design, and Drew University. She was named “Instructor of the Year” for the New York Botanical Garden in 2011.

FoxTale Book Shoppe is located at 105 East Main Street, adjacent to the Gazebo in the Woodstock City Park.