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  • Thursday, September 19, 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm – Harvest Celebration

    Thursday, September 19, 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm – Harvest Celebration

    You are invited to attend a benefit at the Gardens at Elm Bank on Thursday, September 19, from 6:30 – 9.

    The gardens await you for an early evening stroll with hors d’oeuvre and drinks in hand. Dinner will be served inside on beautifully decorated farm tables with inspired floral arrangement. John Lawrence, chef and owner of Peppers’ Fine Catering, will give demonstrations and a seasonal fare dinner will be served, featuring produce from our gardens!  $200 per person.

    For details and tickets, please call Elaine Lawrence at 617-933-4945, or visit www.masshort.org.

  • Thursday, October 20, 7:00 pm, and Friday, October 21, 9:00 am – 6:30 pm – New Orleans Excursion: A Cultural Continuum from Antebellum to Modernist

    Thursday, October 20, 7:00 pm, and Friday, October 21, 9:00 am – 6:30 pm – New Orleans Excursion: A Cultural Continuum from Antebellum to Modernist

    The Cultural Landscape Foundation is sponsoring an exclusive daylong excursion in New Orleans – space is strictly limited and tickets will sell out, so if you are planning a trip to New Orleans, this is the time to do so. Discover New Orleans’ rich and distinct design heritage – from exquisite antebellum estates to significant Modernist properties – during The Cultural Landscape Foundation’s annual excursion. The tour organizers – long-time and oh, so well-connected residents – have secured for us exclusive access to exceptional sites, and there will be an elegant, specially curated luncheon at the world renowned Commander’s Palace Restaurant.

    The daylong excursion will include Lombard Plantation House (historic picture below), one of the great homes in the Bywater neighborhood and one of the country’s finest examples of West Indian-style Creole design. Owner Fred Starr, author of Une Belle Maison, a compelling and colorful history of this iconic property, will host us.

    Our tour will continue in the glorious Garden District, a National Historic Landmark laid out in the 1830s and settled in the 1840s. The world-famous mansions and estates are opulent denizens of the “Big Easy.”

    In the Uptown Historic District we will visit two significant Modernist properties: a collaboration between Robert Royston and local architect John Lawrence that fuses traditional New Orleans with mid-century California Modernism, and the National Register-listed Curtis House (1963), designed by Nathaniel “Buster” Curtis for his own family.

    The day will conclude with a reception where we will debut both a published and an online version of the What’s Out There New Orleans, guides to the city’s designed landscape legacy, and honor a Stewardship Excellence Award winner.

    The Cultural Landscape Foundation will launch its activities and the ASLA conference  with Dinner at Antoine’s on Thursday, October 20. Established in 1840, the legendary Antoine’s is the country’s oldest family-run restaurant, managed by descendants of founder Antoine Alciatore.

    Cost of Friday excursion ticket, which includes reception, luncheon, and transportation: $1,000.
    Cost of Friday reception ticket: $95.
    Cost of Thursday dinner at Antoine’s: $125.

    Register online at http://tclf.org/event/new-orleans-excursion-cultural-continuum-antebellum-modernist

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  • Tuesday, June 2, 6:00 pm – 8:30 pm – Garden to Table’s Spring Dinner in the Crockett Garden

    Join Chef John Lawrence from Peppers Fine Catering as he prepares an early spring dinner featuring local produce and herbs that will way up all your senses. Enjoy a class of wine and seasonal cocktail as John teaches us how to make the most of the early season’s offerings. The dinner will take place in The Crockett Garden at The Gardens at Elm Bank on Tuesday, June 2, from 6 – 8:30. Cost: Mass Hort Members $65, Non-Members $70. Register at http://www.masshort.org/eventdetail/142/422|427|433/garden-to-table-s-spring-dinner-in-the-crockett-garden?filter_reset=1.

  • Saturday, July 20, 11:00 am – 5:00 pm – N.E. Daylily Society’s Daylily Exhibition

    The New England Daylily Society will present a Daylily Show & Exhibition when daylily enthusiasts of New England show their best grown, best groomed daylily flowers. The show will feature hundreds of cut flowers of daylilies in their breathtaking variety of form and color. A wide variety of choice daylily plants will also be for sale from 11am-2pm, plus visitors will enjoy a “Cooking with Daylilies” demonstration with Chef John Lawrence of Pepper’s Fine Catering of Northborough, Mass.

    Show Schedule:

    11:15 – 12:15 pm: “Growing and Caring for the World’s Favorite Perennial: The Daylily,” presented by members of the New England Daylily Society

    12:15 – 1:15 pm: “Ask the Experts,” Daylily experts will answer questions about growing, hybridizing, dividing, or general cultivation of daylilies.

    1:15 – 1:30 pm: FREE Raffle, Enter a drawing to win a one-year membership to American Hemerocallis Society. Many daylily plants will also be raffled.

    1:30 – 4:30 pm: The Daylily Exhibition opens to the public. See more than 300 cultivars of the finest daylilies grown in New England. Divisions include Extra Large 7+, Large, Small, Miniature, Double, Polymerous, Spider, and Unusual Form. The Exhibition presents a wonderful opportunity to view the incredible diversity of daylilies.

    2 pm: Cooking Demonstration with Pepper’s Fine Foods Chef John Lawrence – “Cooking with Daylilies,” Classroom C.

    All this will take place Saturday, July 20 at Tower Hill Botanic Garden, 11 French Drive, Boylston, Massachusetts.  Free with admission.  for more information, visit www.towerhillbg.org.

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  • Thursday, May 30, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm – Mo Herbs Mo Better!

    Join The Massachusetts Horticultural Society at Elm Bank on Thursday, May 30, from 6 – 8, with Chef John Lawrence from Peppers Fine Food Catering for a seasonal tasting dinner in our beautiful garden setting. The evening will include a spirited discussion on how to use both common and uncommon herbs from the garden such as lovage and basil.

    Cost: $60.00 for Mass Hort members, $65.00 for non-members.  Reserve your space at www.masshort.org.

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  • Monday, June 6, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm – The First Harvest

    The Massachusetts Horticultural Society presents The First Harvest, its first fresh food tasting, part of the Garden to Table Program, helping people of all ages and levels of gardening experience to grow, cook, preserve, and enjoy local healthy food.  This three course cooking demonstration in the Crockett Garden at Elm Bank, 900 Washington Street, Wellesley, will take place Monday, June 6, from 6 – 8, and in the event of rain, will be moved to the Carriage House.  The event will be led by John Lawrence of Peppers Fine Food, and the cost is $40 for MHS members, $45 for non-members.  Register online at www.masshort.org, or call 617-933-4995.   Below is Asher Brown Durand’s The First Harvest in the Wilderness, available in reproduction from www.oilpaintinghk.com.