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  • Friday, April 25 – New England Landscape Design & History Association Annual Reception

    NELDHA’s Annual Reception and Lecture will take place on Friday, April 25, 2014 at the beautiful MIT Endicott House in Dedham, Massachusetts. The featured speaker will be Lucinda Brockway, Director for Cultural Resources for the The Trustees of Reservations, where she guides the wonderful restoration of the historic gardens at Castle Hill in Ipswich and Naumkeag in Stockbridge. She was an award-winning landscape designer and preservationist, serving a national clientele for twenty-five years before coming to the trustees.

    Through her firm, Past Designs in Kennebunk, Maine, Lucinda’s work included such well-known projects as Fort Ticonderoga’s Jardin du Roi, Newport’s Bellevue Avenue estates, the Battle Green (Lexington, Massachusetts), Villa Finale in San Antonio ,Texas, the Camden Amphitheatre in Maine and several other projects for the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Her private residential designs won recognition throughout the country. She specialized in designing period-inspired landscapes and gardens featuring both historic and indigenous plants. She is the author of two books, A Favorite Place of Resort for Strangers and Gardens of the New Republic.

    Times and ticketing information will be available at www.neldha.org.

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  • Saturday, June 2 – Sunday, June 3 – Common Threads: Three Historic Estates and Their Gardens

    MIT Endicott House and Richard Burck Associates present Common Threads: Three Historic Estates and Their Gardens, on Saturday and Sunday, June 2 and 3.  This tour is an in-depth look at the  history of three unique estates in the Boston area: the Hunnewell “Wellesley” Estate, Sedgwick Gardens at Long Hill, and MIT Endicott Estate (pictured below.)  Saturday’s program includes a continental breakfast, a lecture and tour of the Arnold Arboretum Plant Accession Facilities, lunch, a lecture and tour of the MIT Endicott House, plus dinner and a lecture on the history of the Agricultural Estate.  Sunday you will enjoy breakfast followed by a lecture and tour of Sedgwick Gardens at Long Hill, lunch, lecture and tour of the Hunnewell Estate.  Call 617-715-4905 for pricing and reservations, or email info@mitendicotthouse.org.

  • Saturday, May 14 – Sunday, May 15 – Annual Gardeners’ Weekend

    MIT Endicott House is having its Annual Gardeners’ Weekend Retreat May 14 and 15.  Learn all the tips to make your gardens the envy of your neighbors this year.  Program begins Saturday at 9 am and runs through brunch on Sunday.  $199.00 per person plus tax includes meals, the gardening program, overnight room and tour of the Frederick Law Olmsted designed grounds and gardens of MIT Endicott House, 80 Haven Street in Dedham.  For more information call 781-326-5151, or log on to www.mitendicotthouse.org.

  • Saturday, April 25- Sunday, April 26 – Gardeners Weekend at MIT Endicott House

    Nurturing Your Garden: Learn the techniques of creating and maintaining a New England garden from Endicott House’s own horticultural staff. Enhance your garden with vibrant colors and invigorating depth through hands on planting, lectures and demonstrations in our greenhouse.  Bring your landscape diagram and find out what will work best for you.  Experience 25 acres of theme gardens designed by Frederick Law Olmstead.  80 Haven Street, Dedham, Massachusetts. By weekend’s end you will have chosen a variety of plants from our greenhouse, which we will nurture for you until planting time. $189 per person.

    Package includes:overnight accommodations, refreshment breaks, lunch and dinner Saturday,brunch on Sunday.Mansion rooms blocked on a first come first serve basis.  For more information, or to make a reservation, call 781-326-5151.