Daily Archives: August 10, 2018

Saturday, August 25, 10:00 am – 2:00 pm – Stone Acres Farm

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The Garden Conservancy will hold an Open Days Special Program on Saturday, August 25 at Stone Acres Farm, 385 North Main Street in Stonington, Connecticut, from 10 – 2, including a talk and book signing by Garden Club of the Back Bay member Judith Tankard from 11 – 1.

Stone Acres Farm is a small working farm situated in picturesque Stonington. The property’s rolling hills, gardens, and acres of vegetable production are open to visitors on a daily basis. A century-old boxwood hedge that is one-quarter-mile long, rose arbors, and a perennial cutting garden are highlights of the historic formal garden. There are interesting old outbuildings, a carriage house, grapery, greenhouse, annual cutting garden, a ha ha, and a pond once used for ice—now home for the herons.

In the historic gardens at Stone Acre Farm, join landscape historian and Garden Conservancy Fellow Judith Tankard for a signing of her latest book, Ellen Shipman and the American Garden. In the 1920s and 1930s, Shipman was a famous landscape architect who designed hundreds of gardens, including 60 in Connecticut. She was known for her labor-intensive flower borders as well as charming water features and garden sculpture. Judith has also written books on Beatrix Farrand and Gertrude Jekyll. She is an Open Days Regional Representative and Garden Host on Martha’s Vineyard.

Admission to the garden is $7. For more information and directions visit https://www.gardenconservancy.org/open-days/garden-directory/stone-acres-farm

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Saturday, August 25, 3:30 pm and 5:00 pm – Digging Deeper: Natural is for Wimps – Training Plants into Extraordinary Shapes

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Taking the lead with many of his garden’s countless hundreds of plants, designer Louis Raymond collaborates with Nature to transform horticulture into “hortitecture”—striking shapes of simple architectural geometry that give the garden structure, mystery, whimsy, shelter, and astonishment. And that changes already marvelous plants into coups de théâtre. Drinks in hand, join Louis on a walk-and-talk from one such marvel to the next.

Your registration includes Open Days admission to this garden destination—a $7 value. Louis Raymond and Richard Ericson’s garden at 495 Main Street in Hopkinton, Rhode Island, is open on this date, August 25, to general Open Days visitors from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. as part of the Washington County, RI Open Day. Register for this Digging Deeper event at either 3:30 p.m. or 5:00 pm at https://www.gardenconservancy.org/open-days/open-days-schedule/digging-deeper-natural-is-for-wimps-training-plants-into-extraordinary-shapes-2: $30 Garden Conservancy members $35 nonmembers

For more information, call the Garden Conservancy’s Open Days toll-free Mon.-Thurs., 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Fri. 9 am. to 3 p.m. EST, 1-888-842-2442, or via email at opendays@gardenconservancy.org. Registration is required and space is limited.

Digging Deeper: Natural is for Wimps—Training Plants into Extraordinary Shapes