【英语时差8,16】贝娅特丽克丝兰德

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Beatrix Farrand Beatrix Farrand was born into a wealthy New York family in 1872. Her aunt was the novelist Edith Wharton. Beatrix traveled to England in 1895 and was profoundly affected¹ by Gertrude Jekyll’s garden at Munstead. It was Beatrix who disseminated² Jekyll’s ideas throughout the United States. In 1948 she purchased the majority of Jekyll’s plans and drawings which are now housed at the University of California at Berkley. Farrand’s own garden designs fused Anglo-American garden traditions. As well as design talent and a great knowledge of plants, she had a warm personality and stressed the importance of close collaboration³ between the designer and the client. She was the only woman among the eleven founders⁴ of the American Society of Landscape Architects, but she always described herself as just a gardener, and thought of gardens as personal and private. Her commissions included the gardens at Yale and Princeton Universities, but her masterpiece is Dumbarton Oaks. There she retained the mature trees and added seasonal⁵ color with spring bulbs, evergreens⁶ and native shrubs⁷ and trees for autumn foliage⁸. Although her work contained formal characteristics, there was a feeling of simplicity⁹, and the dictates¹⁰ of the site and the client were paramount¹¹. For this great American designer, gardening was an interactive¹² process.