Daily Archives: June 18, 2024

Wednesday, June 26, 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm – Choice Groundcover Garden Walk

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Join senior horticulturist Dan Bouchard for a guided educational walk through the Sedgwick Gardens at Long Hill, 576 Essex Street, Beverly on June 26 at 4 pm. While you stroll through the gardens Dan will share his extensive knowledge to point out interesting and unusual groundcovers that are both native and exotic. As you look at the groundcover, Dan will discuss the attributes, growing conditions, habits, and spreading characteristics of each plant.

This is a great walk to learn more about groundcovering plants either for your own home garden or general interest! Please plan to meet in front of the greenhouse when you arrive.

Pre-registration is required. Refunds must be requested 7 days before the program date. $15 for Trustees members, $25 for nonmembers. Register at https://thetrustees.org/event/417310/

Thursday, June 27, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm Eastern – The Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise, Online

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In 2020, Olivia Laing began to restore a walled garden in Suffolk, England. The work drew her into an exhilarating investigation of paradise and its long association with gardens. Moving between real and imagined gardens, from Milton’s Paradise Lost to John Clare’s enclosure elegies, from a wartime sanctuary in Italy to a grotesque aristocratic pleasure ground funded by slavery, Laing interrogates the sometimes shocking cost of making paradise on earth.

But the story of the garden doesn’t always enact larger patterns of privilege and exclusion. It’s also a place of rebel outposts and communal dreams. From the improbable queer utopia conjured by Derek Jarman on the beach at Dungeness to the fertile vision of a common Eden propagated by William Morris, new modes of living can, and have, been attempted amidst the flower beds—experiments that could prove vital in the coming era of climate change.

The result is a humming, glowing tapestry, a beautiful and exacting account of the abundant pleasures and possibilities of gardens; not as a place to hide from the world but as a site of encounter and discovery, bee-loud, and pollen-laden.

This Garden Conservancy webinar will be convened by Open Days Co-founder Page Dickey. $5 for Garden Conservancy members, $15 for nonmembers. A recording of this webinar will be sent to all registrants a few days after the event. We encourage you to register, even if you cannot attend the live webinar. Register at https://www.gardenconservancy.org/education/education-events/virtual-talk-the-garden-against-time