Lectures & Events

Upcoming Events

2010
February 7: “Beatrix Farrand; Private Gardens, Public Landscapes,” Hill-Stead Museum (www.hillstead.org)  Farmington, Connecticut.

March 13: “Beatrix Farrand,” Women and Landscape History seminar, Temple University www.ambler.temple.edu/news, Ambler, Pennsylvania.

March 18: “Horticultural Obsession and Garden Design,” Whatcom Horticultural Society www.whatcomhortsociety.org, Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, Washington.

March 20: "Designing Women," Northwest Horticultural Symposium , Northwest Horticultural Society (www.northwesthort.org), Seattle, Washington.

March 25: “Beatrix Farrand: Private Gardens, Public Landscapes,” Chilton Club (private event), Boston, Massachusetts.

April 3: "Beatrix Farrand," Divas of Design: Celebrating Women Landscape Architects seminar, Lord & Schryver Conservancy (www.lord-schryverconservancy.org), Willamette University, Salem, Oregon.

May 3: “Beatrix Farrand: Private Gardens, Public Landscapes,” Santa Barbara Garden Club (private event), Santa Barbara, California.

May 23: "Beatrix Farrand: Private Gardens, Public Landscapes," Chicago Botanic Garden
(www.chicagobotanic.org), Glencoe, Illinois.

June 30: “Beatrix Farrand, Private Gardens, Public Landscapes,” Polly Hill Arboretum (www.pollyhillarboretum.org), West Tisbury, Massachusetts.

August 7: “Beatrix Farrand, Private Gardens, Public Landscapes,” Beatrix Farrand Society (www.beatrixfarrandsociety.org), Garland Farm, Mount Desert, Maine.


Recent Events

2009
March 23
: “Designing Woman: Beatrix Farrand and Ellen Shipman,” Garden Club of Back Bay (Boston), co-sponsored with the Arnold Arboretum, and Wellesley College Friends of Horticulture. Location: Wellesley College Science Center. For registration information, click here or email adulted@arnarb.harvard.edu or telephone, call 617-384-5277.

June 7: “Gardens of the Arts and Crafts Movement,” Beatrix Farrand Garden Association, Hyde Park, New York.

June 13: “Color in the Flower Garden,” Landscape Pleasures Seminar, Parrish Art Museum (www.parrishart.org), Southampton, New York.

October 9: book launch for Beatrix Farrand: Private Gardens, Public Landscapes, The Beatrix Farrand Society (www.beatrixfarrandsociety.org/programs), Garland Farm, Mount Desert, Maine.

October 22: “Beatrix Farrand: Private Gardens, Public Landscapes”, Longue Vue House & Gardens (www.longuevue.com), 9 Bamboo Lane, New Orleans, Louisiana.

November 2: “Beatrix Farrand: Private Gardens, Public Landscapes”, Harkness Memorial State Park (860-859-3283), 275 Great Neck Road, Waterford, Connecticut.

November 14: “Beatrix Farrand: Private Gardens, Public Landscapes,” Tuxedo Park Library (www.tuxedoparklibrary.org), Tuxedo Park, New York.

November 19: “Beatrix Farrand: Private Gardens, Public Landscapes”, The Horticultural Society of New York Library (www.hsny.org), 148 West 37th Street, New York, New York.

November 21: book-signing for Beatrix Farrand: Private Gardens, Public Landscapes, New York Botanical Garden Shop in the Garden (www.nybg.org), Bronx River Parkway, Bronx, New York.

November 22: "Beatrix Farrand: Private Gardens, Public Landscapes,"  Old Westbury Gardens (www.oldwestburygardens.org), 71 Old Westbury Road, Old Westbury, New York.

November 23: “Beatrix Farrand: Private Gardens, Public Landscapes” , Institute of Classical Architecture (www.classicist.org), 20 West 44th Street, New York, New York.

December 15: “Beatrix Farrand: Private Gardens, Public Landscapes,” New York Hortus Club (private event), National Arts Club, New York.

2008
October 15: “The Gardens of Ellen Shipman,” Bedford Garden Club, Bedford, New York

September 6: “Shaping the American Garden Experience,” Hollister House Garden Study Weekend, Washington, Conn.

May 4: “The Gardens of Ellen Shipman,” Mansion in May at Froh Heim, Far Hills,
New Jersey

2007
October 6: “Gardens of the Arts and Crafts Movement,” Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture, Spokane, Washington

October 4: “Gardens of the Arts and Crafts Movement,” Vancouver Heritage Foundation, Canada

October 3: “Gardens of the Arts and Crafts Movement,” Victoria Heritage Foundation, Canada

September 29: “Gardens of the Arts and Crafts Movement,” Historic Seattle, Seattle, Washington

May 12:  “Gardens of the Arts and Crafts Movement,” William Morris Society, London

April 26: “Revisiting Ellen Shipman’s Gardens,” Landscape Institute, Cambridge, Mass.

April 10: “Gardens of the Arts and Crafts Movement,” Antiquarian Society/ Art Institute of Chicago

January 4: “Women Take the Lead in Landscape Art” and “The Gardens of Ellen Shipman,” Minnesota Green Expo


To schedule a lecture or book-signing for your organization, contact us at lectures@judithtankard.com