Attend a one day symposium sponsored by the Rotch Jones Duff House in New Bedford, Massachusetts, on Saturday, March 20, beginning at 8:30 am and concluding at 3:30 pm. In celebration of the RJD landscape, this symposium, the first of a three year landscape series exploring changing tastes in gardening in the 19th and 20th centuries, will focus on flower gardens.
Landscape designer and worldwide garden traveler Nan Sinton explores two centuries of the influences on American flower gardening as she shows how attitudes regarding spaces have evolved in her talk entitled “What Were They Thinking?” Gardener, author, lecturer and long time instructor at New York Botanical Garden, Keynote Speaker Page Dickey, author of Dogs in Their Gardens, invites gardeners to discover how the floral bounty of meadows and natural places can be brought home to even the tiniest space in her illustrated lecture, “Bringing Wildness into the Garden”, followed by a book signing. Later, Joann Vieira, Director of Horticulture at Tower Hill Botanic Garden in Boylston, who leads the planning and planting of the extensive gardens and dynamic indoor and outdoor container displays there, will reveal which flowers she chooses for an extended season of bloom in “Tradition Meets Experiment: The Best Plants for a Flourishing Flower Garden.” Following these presentations, there will be time for informal questions with the speakers. Registration at The Rotch-Jones-Duff House and Garden Museum, 396 County Road, New Bedford, Massachusetts, begins at 8:30 am, and the program cost of $65 per person (members of the sponsor Rotch Jones Duff House) or $75 (nonmembers) includes lunch. For more information, or to purchase tickets, call 508-997-1401, or log on to www.rjdmuseum.org.
