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Events Update: Deborah Nevins

photo: Deborah Nevins & Associates

May 31, Landscape Designer Deborah Nevins, New Canaan, CT
5:30-8pm, The Glass House, Lecture, Landscape Tour, Reception 203-594-9884

Happenings June 2018

Selected Events Around the Country:

Exhibitions:

thru Oct 28: Georgia O'Keeffe: Visions of Hawaii, Bronx, NY
NY Botanical Garden, 718-817-8700
thru August 31, 2018, "Cultivating America's Gardens," Washington DC
National Museum of American History, sponsor: Smithsonian Gardens & Smithsonian Libraries, 202-633-1522

Events:

NOTE: Garden Conservancy Digging Deeper:
Special Events at Open Days Gardens throughout the month.

June 2-3 Garden Conservancy Open Days Tours: CA, CT, MA, MD, NY, SC
CA: Marin, Mendocino; CT:Fairfield, Litchfield; MA:Bristol; MD:Frederick; NYU:Suffolk, Nassau; SC:Charleston
June 3, Secret Garden Tour, Cambridge, MA
10am-4pm, 35+gardens, self-guided.
June 6-9 Native Plants in the Landscape Conference, Millersville, PA
Millersville University: tours, workshops, lectures, more 717-842-0272
June 9-10, Landscape Pleasures Symposium, Watermill, NY
Parrish Art Museum, Symposium & Garden tour, 631-283-2118
(Speakers: Mikyoung Kim, Martha Schwartz, Peter Wirtz)
June 9-10 Garden Conservancy Open Days Tours: CT, DC, MA, MD, NY
CT:Hartford; DC; MA:Norfolk, Suffolk; MD: Montgomery; NY:Columbia, Livingston, Putnam

June 15-17, Secret Garden Tours, Newport, RI
10am-5pm, Tours of the city's most prestigious propoerties, 401-439-7293
June 16, South End Garden Tour, Boston, MA
10am-4pm, Fabulous gardens, fabulous tour.25th annual tour. 617.869.6720
June 16, Garden Dialogues, Millbrook, NY
11:30am-1:30pm, Tours with Landscape Architects, TCLF, 202-483-0553
June 16, Terrace Gardening Saturday, Bronx, NY
10am-5pm, NY Botanical Garden, 718-817-8700
June 16-17 Garden Conservancy Open Days Tours: CT, MO, NH, NJ, NY, VT, WA
CT: Hartford, New Haven; MO: St. Louis; NH: Cheshire, Hillsborough; NJ: Essex; NY: Dutchess, Westchester; VT: Windham, Windsor; WA: Kitsap

June 21, 14th Annual Garden Symposium, Boothbay, ME
9:30am-3:30pm, "Landscapes Redefined," Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens 207-633 -8000
June 22-24, Newport Flower Show, Newport, RI
"Cottages Smart & Small," 23rd Annual Show, 401-847-1000
June 23, Garden Dialogues: Tours with Landscape Architects: NY, MA, MD
Truro, MA: 1:30-3:30pm.
Bethesda, MD: 10am-noon
Bridgehampton, NY: 11:30am-1:30pm
TCLF, 202-483-0553
June 23-24, Garden Conservancy Open Days Tours: CA, CT, IL, MA, NJ, NY, VT
CA: Mendocino; CT: Litchfield; IL: Cook; MA: Berkshire; NJ: Bergen; NY: Dutchess, Saratoga, Columbia, Ulster; VT: Bennington.

June 29-30, Rockport Garden Tour, Rockport, MA
10am-4pm, 9 private gardens, "Rockport in Bloom."
June 30, Garden Conservancy Open Days Tours: CT, NY
CT: Fairfield; NY: Dutchess, Suffolk

LOOKAHEAD:

July 6-15, Cape Cod Hydrangea Festival, various locations
Garden tours, workshops, lectures, more.  4th Annual Festival.
July 20, Woody Plant Conference, Scott Arboretum, Swarthmore, PA
July 30-Aug 3, Perennial Plant Symposium, Raleigh, NC
Aug 13-16 Gardenwriters 70th Annual Conference, Chicago, IL

Sept 8, Hollister House Garden Study Weekend VIII, Southbury, CT
9am, Heritage Hotel, "A Passion for Plants," Garden Conservancy, 845-424-6500

Books: The Unfamiliar Garden Guide

We all know the gardens on the garden bucket list:  Sissinghurst, Dumbarton Oaks, Ryoan-ji.  But what about the ones you don't even know about that are certainly worth a visit.

In Green Escapes: The Guide to Secret Urban Gardens (Phaidon Press, 2018), more than 250 gardens are profiled, gardens that are off the beaten path in more than 150 cities around the globe, from Dunedin, New Zealand; to Shimla, India; Wells, UK; and many, many more.

Just to give you a hint of what's in this guide:

photo: Museo Nacional de Costa Rica click to enlarge photos

Museo Nacional de Costa Rica, San Jose

There are two major gardens here, the first a 500 square meter butterfly garden in a glass atrium that features tropical plants home to 25 butterfly species native to the Central Valley.  The second is an open-air rectangular courtyard that has views out over the city and includes stone spheres carved by indigenous peoples.

 

photo: Toby Musgrave

Monforte Gardens, Valencia, Spain

This 1.1 hectare garden was created in the mid 1800s for the Marquis of San Juan by local architect Sebastián Monleón Estellés. Enjoy the small sunken garden surrounded by cypress, pools, fountains, and garden beds, then head to six parterres and on to a pergola, orange grove, and shady garden comparments.

photo: The Music Center by Tim Street-Porter

And, the next time you're in Los Angeles, stop by

The Blue Ribbon Garden at the Walt Disney Concert Hall

This 4000 square meter garden is on the hall's roof terrace, designed by landscape architect Melinda Taylor. There are winding paths and lush garden beds featuring  trees, shrubs, perennials, and ornamental grasses as well as vegetables and herbs that are harvested for the hall's Patina restaurant. Well worth a visit if you're in the vicinity, but it's closed before and after performances, so do check the schedule.

It's a small book you can easily take on a trip, and you'll be using it for years as you travel the globe.

 

 

In the Magazines May-June 2018

Fine Gardening May-June

*New Plants for 2018
*Designing with Color
*Welcoming Front Yard Entries
*Natives for the Sunny Border

 

 

Horticulture May June

*Perfect Plant Pairings
*Tiny plants - big impact
*Profile: Houmas House & Gardens, LA
*Plants for sun or shade
*Annuals to Embrace

 

Landscape Architecture May

*An elevated expressway in Toronto: now a trail for ice skaters
*A vertical oasis in Scottsdale, AZ by Floor Associates: hanging gardens galore
*Storm King Art Center: exhibition on climate change by 12+ artists

 

Sunset May

*The Rose Expert: Fallon Shea Anderson
*Lush landscape installed on walls & roofs to complement modern architecture by industrial designer Ezequiel Farca
*Homegrown teas

 

Georgia O'Keeffe & Hawaii at NYBG

image from NYBG

Georgia O'Keeffe: Visions of Hawai'i
May 19-October 28, 2018
New York Botanical Garden

A major exhibition on American artist Georgia O'Keeffe's nine-week visit to Hawaii in 1939 opens May 19 at the New York Botanical Garden.  The exhibition includes a display of flora unique to Hawaii in the Enid Haupt Conservatory, including the gardens and landscapes that inspired O'Keeffe; artworks she produced while in Hawaii; a scholarly symposium; films, and a number of special classes and talks. 

O'Keeffe traveled to Hawaii on commission to produce images for the Hawaii Pineapple Company -- images that would be used in their advertisements.  At the time of her visit, she was among the best known artists in the United States, famous for her works that showed the landscape and desert flora of New Mexico.  In Hawaii, O'Keeffe traveled to Oahu, Maui, Kauai and the Big Island of Hawaii and painted closeups of plants and flowers, as well as mountain landscapes and waterfalls.  The exhibition includes 20 of these paintings, first shown in 1940 at Alfred Stieglitz's An American Place gallery in New York.

You might want to catch the panel discussion on May 18th from 10:30-12:30 -- O'Keeffe and Hawaii: A Sense of Place.

 

Heronswood Open Day May 2018

If you've never been to Heronswood, here's another chance -- well worth it.