A Legacy in Bloom: Celebrating a Century of Gardens at the Cummer

HARDCOVER.The inaugural garden publication, by garden historian Judith B. Tankard, is available in The Cummer Store. In words and pictures, this book tells the story of the gardens at The Cummer from their inception in 1903 by Ossian Cole Simonds, a prominent Midwestern landscape architect to Belgian landscape artist Francois Goffinet's far-reaching visions 100 years later. Throughout the story runs the determined Ninah Cummer, founder of the museum, without whose foresight in hiring an incomparable team of experts and her own passion for horticultural knowledge, the gardens would never have existed.