The Fountainhead Gallery will host a reading of Madeleine Wilde’s “Notes from the Garden: Creating a Pacific Northwest Sanctuary” at 2 p.m. Feb. 19 at the gallery on upper Queen Anne (625 W. McGraw St.).
Wilde’s column “Notes from the Garden” appeared in the Queen Anne & Magnolia News for more than two decades starting in the early 1990s. After Wilde’s death in 2018, Mike Dillon, publisher from 1992-2013, gathered her best columns into a manuscript, which was published by Seattle’s Chatwin Books in late 2021.
Dillon, the book’s editor, wrote the introduction and Wilde’s husband, David Streatfield, professor emeritus in the department of landscape architecture at the University of Washington, wrote the foreword. The book is illustrated by architect Mark Hinshaw, former architectural critic at the Seattle Times and Crosscut.
During the hour-long program, Streatfield will discuss the creation of the couple’s terraced garden on Queen Anne’s southwest slope, and Dillon will read his favorite selections from the book.
“COVID delayed our reading on Queen Anne,” Dillon said. “Madeleine and David had a close connection with the Fountainhead Gallery. This reading is a kind of homecoming in the best sense.”