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Happenings Oct 2018

Exhibitions:

thru Oct 28: Georgia O'Keeffe: Visions of Hawaii, Bronx, NY
NY Botanical Garden, 718-817-8700
Sept 12-Nov 17: Landscape Architecture of Lawrence Halprin, Boston, MA
TCLF, 202-483-0553

Events:

Garden Dialogues: Garden tours with landscape architects, TCLF, 202-483-0553
Oct 14, Pasadena, CA: Hindry House , 3-5pm.
Oct 15, Washington DC: Washington National Cathedral, 10am-noon

Oct 1, "Change and Continuity" in Landscapes, NY, NY
6:30 pm, Lecture, TCLF CEO Charles Birnbaum, Scandinavia House, NYBG, 718-817-8700
Oct 4, Invasive Plants Symposium, Storrs, CT
8am-4:30pm, Univ of CT, Student Union, 860-486-6448

Oct 7, Garden Conservancy Open Days Tours: Cold Spring, NY
Oct 10, The Making of Three Gardens, Charleston, SC
6pm, Lecture, LA Jorge Sanchez, Gibbes Museum of Art & Garden Conservancy.
Oct 10-11, Landscape Expo, Long Beach, CA
9am-3pm, Long Beach Convention Center: Lectures, Demos, Exhibits, More.
Oct 12-13, 65th Fall Symposium, St. Louis, MO
Biota of North America: What We're Losing, MO Botanical Garden, 314-577-5100
Oct 13, Garden Conservancy Open Days Tours: CT, NY
Washington, CT; Pawling, NY

Oct 15, "Giving Voice to the Land," NY, NY
6:30pm, Lecture, LA Beka Sturges of Reed HIlderbrand, Scandinavia House, NYBG, 718-817-8700
Oct 17, Preserving America's Garden Furniture History, Glencoe, IL
1pm, Lecture, Chicago Botanic Garden & Garden Conservancy,
Oct 19, Perennial Plant Conference, Swarthmore, PA
9am-5pm, Swarthmore College, 610-388-5238
Oct 19-22, ASLA Annual Meeting & Expo, Philadelphia, PA

Oct 24, Designing for Delight, Bronx, NY
1-3pm, Lecture, LA Matthew Urbanski of MIchael Van Valkenburgh, NYBG, 718-817-8747
Oct 24, Renewal of The Blue Garden (in Newport), NY, NY
6pm, Lecture, NY School of Interior Design & Garden Conservancy
Oct 26, Floral Design Showcase, Bronx, NY
10-11:30am, Putnam & Putnam, NYBG, 718-817-8700
Oct 27, All About Containers Saturday, NY, NY
10am-5pm, NYBG Midtown Center, 718-817-8700
Oct 31-Nov 2 International Pool & Spa Expo, Las Vegas, NV

LOOKAHEAD:

Nov 2, Botanical Gardens & the Urban Future, Washington DC
9am-6pm, Colloquium, Dumbarton Oaks, 202-339-6460
Nov 7, The Sensory Garden, North Grafton, MA
8am-4:30pm, ELA Season's End Summit, Community Harvest Project Barn, 617-436-5838
Nov 8, Landscape Lecture, Mikyoung Kim, Boston, MA
7pm, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Mikyoung Kim Design, 617-278-5156

James Rose landscape - TCLF

photo: EarthCam via TCLF

There just aren't many landscapes designed by James Rose -- one of the 20th century's premier landscape architects -- that are out there to visit.

BUT ... as reported by The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF), Texwipe, in Upper Saddle River, NJ, has now been restored by EarthCam.  Read the entire story on TCLF's website, here.

Books: The World's Best New Gardens

You may think you've seen them all -- Dumbarton Oaks, Sissinghurst, Versailles, Ryoan-ji and many more.  But how many of you have visited Junto Farm in the Hudson Valley of NY or Parc Clichy-Batignolles/Martin Luther King in Paris, Orpheus at Boughton House in Northamptonshire, UK or Gardens by the Bay and Parkroyal Hotel in Singapore?

You'll be ready to travel when you pick up Gardenlust: A Botanical Tour of the World’s Best New Gardens(Timber Press, 2018) by British plant expert Christopher Woods, former director and chief designer at Chanticleer Garden in Pennsylvania.

In the introduction to the books, Woods reports that his aim in this book is "a modern take on ... inherently interesting plants, fresh approaches to how to place them that result in the creation of something new or at least unconstrained by the weight of tradition ..."

He leaves almost nothing out.  There are chapters on North, Central, and South America and the Caribbean; Europe; Africa and the Arabian Peninsula; India and Southeast Asia; Asia; Australia and New Zealand.

Aside from gorgeous photos, Woods describes each garden in detail and informs the reader who designed it. You'll encounter gardens by some familiar landscape architects like Raymond Jungles, Gustafson Porter, Carrie Preston, Richard Hartlage, Nigel Dunnett and James Hitchmough, and others by designers you've never heard of.

Woods puts it best in a poem at the beginning of the book:

And for the gardeners of the world.
You with the crazy eyes and rough hands.
You who are so much in love with growing things.
You artists and scientists, poets and painters, protectors and advocates.
You who fall in love again and again.

Every designer, everyone who loves gardens and plants will want a copy of this book. It's the first real comprehensive survey of fabulous 21st century gardens.

 

 

New Rose -- Four Roses Bourbon

Jackson & Perkins has just released a new rose in partnership with Four Roses® Kentucky Bourbon to commemorate the brand's 130th anniversary.  Of course there's a legend that goes along with it:  the brand's founder sent a proposal to a lovely woman, and she replied that if her answer were 'yes,' she'd wear a corsage of roses to an upcoming grand ball.  When she arrived with a corsage of four red roses, he named his bourbon "Four Roses" as a symbol of his love.

The dark red blooms of this rose have a light damask fragrance, and it's a repeat bloomer if deadheaded promptly.  The shrub is 3-4 feet high and wide, heat tolerant and resistant to rust and powdery mildew.  Zones 4-10, a good choice for beds, borders, hedges and of course cut flowers.