Experience a world famous flower showing, explore Stourhead (below) and Stonehenge, and visit the National Gallery & Royal Academy. Also see the Chelsea Flower Show, The National Trust Gardens of Stowe, the Hampshire/Surrey area gardens. Visit Museums such as the National Gallery & Royal Academy, Tate Modern, Vermeer Museum, Musée d’’Orsey, Monet’’s home in Giverny and the Louvre.
Approximate Rate: $5,400 per person, includes round trip airfare. For complete itinerary visit www.nbmaa.org.
Charles Jencks, architectural theorist, landscape architect, and designer, has become a leading figure in British landscape architecture. His landscape work is inspired by fractals, genetics, chaos theory, waves and solitons. These themes are expressed in his award-winning design, the Landform Ueda at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh, Scotland, and expanded in his own private landscape, the Garden of Cosmic Speculation, at Portrack House, near Dumfries. Also a furniture designer and sculptor, Jencks completed the DNA Sculpture in London’s Kew Gardens in 2003. Jencks will speak about his design process as it applies to landscapes. See photo below of his “Life Mounds” at Jupiter Artland.
Fee: $20 Arnold Arboretum member, $25 nonmember. Presented by the Arnold Arboretum and Trinity Church in Boston. For more information, or to register, log on to www.arboretum.harvard.edu, or call 617-384-5277.
