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  • Saturday, May 12, 10:30 am – Digging Deeper: Spring Beauties

    The country garden of Lynden Miller, an acclaimed public garden designer and a serious plant lover, has been her laboratory for design ideas and plant combinations since 1980. She adores early spring in her garden, particularly her woodland, and will welcome a small group to really look at what makes that work. Her site features a large mixed border backed by a curved yew hedge, a raised garden, and a cottage garden. There is a small pond and a recirculating stream, a woodland with moss paths, and many hardy hydrangeas.

    In 1982, Lynden Miller rescued and restored The Conservatory Garden in Central Park. Based on her belief that good public open spaces can change city life, she has since designed more than forty other gardens and parks, including Bryant Park, The New York Botanical Garden, and Wagner Park in Battery Park City. Lynden wrote Parks, Plants and People: Beautifying the Urban Landscape, which won the American Horticultural Society 2010 National Book Award.

    The Garden Conservancy invites you to this May 12 Digging Deeper event at 10:30 am at the garden – address will be shared with registered guests. $30 for members of the Garden Conservancy, $35 for nonmembers. Registration is required and space is limited. For more information, call the Garden Conservancy’s Open Days toll-free weekdays, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. EST, 1-888-842-2442, or via email at opendays@gardenconservancy.org.

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  • Thursday, September 8, 7:00 pm – Massachusetts Horticultural Society 2011 Honorary Medals Dinner

    On September 8, Mass Hort will continue its almost century-long tradition of honoring superior achievements in horticulture when Elm Bank hosts the 2011 Honorary Medals Gala with Lynden B. Miller receiving the George Robert White Medal of Honor for her work as a designer of urban parks.

    Lynden B. Miller is a public garden designer in New York City and director of The Conservatory Garden in Central Park, which she rescued and restored beginning in 1982. Her work includes gardens for The Central Park Zoo, Bryant Park, The New York Botanical Garden, Madison Square Park, and Wagner Park in Battery Park City as well as many smaller projects in all five boroughs and beyond, including waterfront gardens in Red Hook, Brooklyn, improvements to Union Square Park and the 97th Street Park Avenue Mall, renovation of the “Gateway to Harlem” Broadway Mall at 135th Street, Loeb Plaza for Hunter College, and the 67th Street Armory.

    Other winners include Wesley R. Autio, professor of pomology at UMass Amherst, Richard Jaynes of Broken Hill Nursery, volunteer Joyce Bakshi, Theodore Landsmark of Boston Architectural College, Organic Gardening Magazine, author Ellen Ecker Ogden, Carrie Waterman, Russ Billings of Mount Holyoke College, and the Lyman Plant House of the Botanic Gardens at Smith College.

    Tickets are $150 per person to this event. There are also opportunities to either co-host or host a table.  To co-host or host a table, please call our reservation line at 617-933-4995. All proceeds from the dinner will be used to support maintenance and improvement of Mass Hort gardens.

  • Saturday, October 23, 1:30 pm – Gardens for American Institutions: Reflections from Recent Practices

    The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum’s Landscape Visions lectures for 2010/2011 begins Saturday, October 23 at 1:30 pm in the Tapestry Room with a presentation by Laurie Olin, landscape architect, author, and teacher, who has won numerous awards for his urban projects, including the National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden (Washington, DC), the redesign of Columbus Circle in Manhattan, and Bryant Park.

    Formerly treasure boxes turned inward, American museums and cultural institutions have made dramatic shifts in their perceptions of themselves and social engagement. Now they are connected both architecturally and socially with their place in the world, often through ambitious and welcoming landscapes.  Olin reflects on this evolution and presents work by his firm for museums and libraries over the last thirty years.

    Tickets are $15 for the general public, $12 Seniors, $5 members, and free for students, and may be purchased online at www.gardnermuseum.org. The Landscape Visions lecture series is made possible by a bequest from Jeanne Muller Ryan.