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  • Friday, August 12 – Saturday, August 13 – American Conifer Society Northeast Region Meeting

    The American Conifer Society will venture to Southwest New Hampshire August 12 and 13 to take in 4 private gardens around the Keene area in August 2016. NH boasts natural beauty – mountains, farming, granite, forests and water and this natural scenery is the backdrop for these four gardens. We will explore a garden in cultivation for 45 years, two in cultivation for 25 years and a new 10 year old garden. In addition to conifers, beech and perennials, we will view a sugaring house, natural cranberry fens (floating bog), farmstead built in 1790’s and a newly built medieval style manor house complete with stonework by renowned mason, Dan Snow. Stay a few days and take in Brattleboro, Vermont, the White Mountains of NH or hike Mt. Monadnock.

    The Conference, taking place at The Courtyard by Marriott, 75 Railroad Street in Keene,  begins at 3 pm Friday and that evening’s dinner speaker is Kris Fenderson, who will present Gardening in the Same Spot for 45 Years: Lessons and Triumphs. On Saturday, buses leave at 8 am for Grout Hill, and at 10:15 the trip to Woodland Farms begins. At 12:15 there will be three guided tours of Distant Hills Garden, including floating fens, sugar house, and Monarch butterfly fueling station. For complete information and registration, visit http://northeast.conifersociety.org/events/event/ne-regional-meeting-new-hampshire/

  • Wednesday, March 30, 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm – Working with Stone: Creating a Connection with the Spirit of Place

    Rescheduled from February 1 due to snow. The gardener’s perspective is the perfect loci for seeking inward and reaching outward, for ordering the experience of time and space, and observing higher orders.  Dan Snow is a designer of outdoor spaces in stone, and an art maker specializing is dry stone constructions.  He is the author of In the Company of Stone and Listening to Stone—Hardy Structures, Perilous Follies, and Other Tangles with Nature and the subject of the PBS documentary Stone Rising.  Working solo to build garden walls and dry stone features, Master Craftsman Dan Snow finds that the most successful designs are born of an intimate relationship with the landscape and knowledge and understanding of the materials at hand. Dan’s presentation will examine the many uses of stone in the garden; how stone can support a garden design, or simply be the garden itself. Illustrated with images of his work, the presentation will also explore the “give and take” experience of working in nature, and the connection to spirit expressed through stone.  Book-signing to follow. Co-sponsored by Trinity Church and the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University.

    The lecture and reception will now take place Wednesday, March 30, beginning at 7 pm. Tickets $20 member, $25 non member, available at The Shop at Trinity (206 Clarendon Street, lower level), by phone (617.536.0944 x225) or online arboretum.harvard.edu. Questions: Kathy Acerbo-Bachmann, 617.536.0944 x217 or kacerbobachmann@trinitychurchboston.org.  The beautiful photo below of Dan Snow’s work in Vermont is by Peter Mauss.

  • Thursday, July 22 – Sunday, July 25 – 2010 JMMDS Vermont Stone Workshop

    Join renowned master dry stone waller Dan Snow and award-winning landscape designer and host Julie Moir Messervy in an inspiring hands-on workshop on the art of placing stone. Combining Dan’s vast walling experience and artistic vision with Julie’s skill in stone composition, the two will instruct participants on how to arrange stone in a variety of different forms on the land.  You will learn principles and techniques of dry stone walling, Japanese stone placement and design, building special stone features such as Moongate and Stone Hive,  fire and water  features, plus stone path and terrace design.

    Over the course of this three and a half-day workshop July 22 – July 25, participants practice in small groups with Julie and Dan and his assistants on a variety of projects and skill-building exercises. Field trips, outdoor activities, and a beautiful rural Westminster,Vermont setting complete this special workshop experience. Limited enrollment.  Tuition is $1,180 per person, and student scholarships are available.  Contact info@jmmds.com, call 802-869-1470, or log on to www.jmmds.com.

    JMMDS 2010 Vermont Stone Workshop