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  • Wednesday, October 30, 6:00 pm – Massachusetts Horticultural Society Honorary Medals Dinner

    The Board of Trustees of Massachusetts Horticultural Society (MHS) has announced its 2024 Honorary Medals recipients. The 7 winners will be celebrated at the 121st Honorary Medals Dinner at the Garden at Elm Bank in Wellesley, MA on October 30, 2024. This year, MHS will continue a 193-year tradition of awarding medals to individuals and organizations for their contributions to excellence in horticulture for the public good.


    Douglas W. Tallamy will be awarded the George Robert White Medal of Honor, MHS’s highest honor, for eminent
    service in the field of horticulture, and will deliver the keynote speech during the ceremony. A New York Times bestselling
    author, his books, including Nature’s Best Hope: A New Approach to Conservation that Starts in Your Yard (2020) and The
    Nature of Oaks: The Rich Ecology of Our Most Essential Native Trees     (2021), have delivered the importance of horticultural
    conservation to homes across the world. As a professor in University of Delaware’s Department of Entomology and
    Wildlife Ecology, he advocates for smaller lawns, native plants, and habitats for native species. His advocacy work is echoed
    through his founding of Homegrown National Park, a grassroots organization that encourages everyone to grow native
    plants.


    Matthew Cunningham will receive the Thomas Roland Medal for exceptional skill in horticulture and lectures.
    Founding Principal of Matthew Cunningham Landscape Design LLC, he is an award-winning and nationally recognized
    landscape architect.


    Gold Medals for eminent horticultural accomplishments will be awarded to David Barnett (President and CEO
    Emeritus, Mount Auburn Cemetery) and Tom Ryan (Senior Principal and Owner, Ryan Associates Landscape Architecture
    and Planning). Patrick Chassé (landscape architect), Dr. Barbara E. Millen (Board Chair, Center for Plant Conservation;
    Trustee, Massachusetts Horticultural Society and a long time Board Member of The Boston Committee of the GCA), and Murphy Westwood, PhD (Vice President of Science and Conservation, The Morton Arboretum) will receive Silver Medals for their noteworthy service in horticulture. More details about each awardee and their recognition will become available at https://www.masshort.org/honorary-medals/.


    The 121st Honorary Medals Dinner will take place Wednesday, October 30, 2024 at 6 pm at Massachusetts
    Horticultural Society’s Garden at Elm Bank. The dinner will be preceded by a day-long symposium, featuring lectures by
    medal winners Doug Tallamy, Matt Cunningham, Tom Ryan, and Murphy Westwood. Tickets for the awards ceremony
    including dinner and drinks are $180; symposium tickets are $250 for General Admission and $200 for Boston Society of
    Landscape Architects and MHS members. Proceeds benefit excellence in horticulture at MHS. For event information and
    to purchase tickets when they are released, please visit https://www.masshort.org/honorary-medals/

  • Sunday, June 6, 2:00 pm – The Maine Work of Beatrix Farrand

    The Roosevelt-Vanderbilt National Historic Sites are pleased to announce the Fifth Annual Bellefield Design Lecture: The Maine Work of Beatrix Farrand by Patrick Chasse, a program of its park partner, The Beatrix Farrand Garden Association, on Sunday, June 6, beginning at 2 pm, at the Henry A. Wallace Visitor Center at the Home of Franklin D. Roosevelt Historic Site and The FDR Presidential Library and Museum, 4079 Albany Post Road, Hyde Park, New York.  Patrick will discuss Farrand’s life and work in Maine from childhood through her retirement at Garland Farm, including a number of private commissions that are rarely ever seen by the public. A reception and heirloom plant, book and garden treasure sale will follow in the Garden at Bellefield.  Tickets are $30 ($25 for Beatrix Farrand Garden Association and Garden Conservancy members), and may be purchased in advance (strongly recommended, because seating is limited) by logging on to www.beatrixfarrandgarden.org or by calling 845-229-9115, ext. 26.

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  • Saturday, March 20, 1:30 pm – The Monumental Landscape: New Ways of Remembering

    Patrick Chasse, Landscape Curator of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, enchanted us with his talk at last Fall’s Boston Committee Annual Meeting.  He will speak again on Saturday, March 20, beginning at 1:30 pm, as part of the Landscape Visions Lecture Series at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 280 The Fenway in Boston.

    Many of the most powerful modern memorials to individuals, groups, and even ideas are landscapes — like Maya Lin’s Vietnam Veteran’s Memorial. The profound connections of humans and their cultures to landscapes forge a timeless link to our memories. Landscape Visions Lecture are made possible by a bequest from Jeanne Muller Ryan. Tickets are $15 General Public, $12 Seniors, $5 Museum Members, and Free for Students.  For more information, or to purchase tickets in advance, call 617-566-1401, or log on to www.gardnermuseum.org.

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  • Tuesday, November 17, 11:00 am – Isabella and Her Gardens

    The Boston Committee of the Garden Club of America invites you to its 20th Birthday Celebration Annual Meeting and Fall Lecture on Tuesday, November 17, with registration at 10:30 am, and lecture at 11 am.  Patrick Chassé, the first Curator of Landscape, The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, will give an illustrated lecture entitled  “Isabella and Her Gardens.”

    Like a horticultural Sherlock Holmes, Patrick Chassé tracks down clues to gardens of the past. His latest challenge is to unlock the secrets of a magnificent courtyard garden long identified with a Boston museum and its charismatic founder.

    Mr. Chassé, a landscape architect, has served since 2004 as the curator of landscape at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, the first person to hold such a title there. His detective work involves documenting the courtyard’s evolution and reinstating elements of its design as envisioned by Isabella Stewart Gardner in the early 1900s.

    The event will take place at The Country Club in Brookline, Massachusetts.  Cost of lecture is $20 (public invited), Lecture and Luncheon $45 (members of Boston Committee Clubs only, please.)  RSVP by November 12.  Please make check payable to The Boston Committee of the GCA and mail to Mrs. William U. Shipley, 40 Dunster Road, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467.

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