Interview with Peter Hatch about Monticello’s Historic Gardens

 

Interview with Peter Hatch about Monticello’s Historic Gardens

by Seasonal Wisdom on September 3, 2012

Thomas Jefferson was the third president of the United States, author of the Declaration of Independence and father of the University of Virginia. But in his heart, he was a gardener. “No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden,” wrote Thomas Jefferson in 1811.

Interview with Peter Hatch about Monticello’s Historic Gardens