Carnegie Visual Arts Center

If you’ve ever wanted to see how people of the South who love the land make gardens for themselves and their friends, pick up this book and look through it. Garden Views of Decatur and Morgan County, Alabama was created as a fund-raiser for the City’s Carnegie Visual Arts Center by Charles Seifried & Jim Felder. On these pages, you’ll see ideas and passion spring forth as color and line, light and form. Here are gardens raised from the ancient banks of the Tennessee River in an old north Alabama town with a deep reverence for the land and all it provides. This book will introduce you to the Southern ways of gardening where every drop of pigment and drama is squeezed from plants that must endure the legendary heat of Alabama summers, and others that prosper and bloom through the unpredictable winters. Garden Views of Decatur and Morgan County, Alabama offers a glimpse into the creative gardening minds of nearly every walk of life here. Even public gardens are represented. Floral beauty is a year-round pursuit here, practiced for many reasons, as you will learn from these pages. Support the Carnegie, and at the same time treat your senses with this wonderful book. It can be purchased from many local merchants, or pick one up at the Carnegie for $34.95.