Wayne Winterrowd

Wayne Rudolf Winterrowd (October 29, 1941 – September 17, 2010) was an American gardening expert and designer who wrote extensively on the subject. The garden covering at his Vermont home became a tourist attraction to visitors from around the world.

Biography Winterrowd, who was born on October 29, 1941, in Shreveport, Louisiana, started gardening when he was three years old and read widely on the subject while he was growing up. While teaching Jacobean literature at Tufts University in 1969, he first met Joe Eck, and they lived together in Denmark where Winterrowd had earned a Fulbright scholarship. The garden drew visitors from around the world to their home in Southern Vermont near the Massachusetts border.

Across the United States and Canada, Winterrowd and Eck traveled to design customized gardens for their customers. Their books include A Year at North Hill: Four Seasons in a Vermont Garden in 1995, their 1999 work Living Seasonally: The Kitchen Garden and the Table at North Hill and the 2009 book Our Life in Gardens. They were working on the book To Eat at the time of Winterrowd's death.

Winterrowd and Eck were joined in a civil union in 2000 and were married in 2009 after Vermont legalized same-sex marriage. Winterrowd died at age 68 on September 17, 2010, at his home in Readsboro, Vermont due to heart failure. He was survived by Eck and by a son they adopted.