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November/December 2000
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Special Events
Events
sponsored or co-sponsored by AHS are indicated by an
AHS symbol. Expanded and
updated Regional Happenings listings can be viewed on the
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Mid-Atlantic
Through Nov. 19. Chrysanthemum
Festival. Longwood Gardens, Kennett Square, Pennsylvania.
(610) 388-1000.
Through Feb. 25. Garden
Railroad. Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens,
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. (412) 622-6914.
Nov. 6 & 7. Wildlife Habitat
Council's 12th Annual
Symposium. Renaissance Harborplace
Hotel, Baltimore, Maryland.
(301) 588-8994.
Nov. 11. The Delight of Bulbs
as Companion Plants. Lecture by Brent Heath. Brookside
Gardens, Wheaton, Maryland.
(301) 962-1451.
Nov. 11. Tea & Violets at
Washington's National
Cathedral. Hosted by the American Violet Society.
Washington, D.C.
(703) 707-0049.
Nov. 23-Jan. 1. Christmas at
Longwood. Longwood Gardens, Kennett Square, Pennsylvania.
(610) 388-1000.
Nov. 24-Jan. 7. Gifts Under
Glass. Flower show. Phipps Conservatory and Botanical
Gardens, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
(412) 622-6914.
Dec. 1, 2, & 4. Wreath
Workshops. Monticello, Charlottesville, Virginia. (804)
984-9822.
Dec. 2. Holiday Greens Sale &
Open House. Historic Bartram's Garden, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania. (215) 729-5281.
Dec. 2. Wreath Workshop. U.S.
National Arboretum, Washington,
D.C. (202)
245-4523.
Dec. 8-10. Christmas at an
English Country House. Ladew Topiary Gardens, Monkton,
Maryland. (410) 557-9466.
Dec. 11. Arboretum By
Moonlight. Guided hike. U.S. National Arboretum, Washington,
D.C. (202) 245-4523.
North Central
Nov. 4. Gardening From the
Catalog: The World at Your Fingertips. Symposium.
Olbrich Botanical Gardens, Madison,
Wisconsin. (608) 246-4550.
Nov. 14. Fruits in the Culinary
Landscape. Lecture by Martha Davis. Morton Arboretum, Lisle,
Illinois. (630) 719-2468.
Nov. 24-Dec. 31. Celebrations
Holiday Festival.
Chicago Botanic Garden, Glencoe, Illinois. (847) 835-5440.
Weekends, Nov. 24-Dec. 23.
Garden of Lights. Green Bay Botanical Garden,
Green Bay, Wisconsin.
(920) 490-9457.
Dec. 2 & 3. Festival of Light.
Botanica:
The Wichita Gardens, Wichita, Kansas. (316) 264-0448.
Dec. 2-Jan. 7. Annual Christmas
Poinsettia Display. Anna Scripps Whitcomb Conservatory,
Belle Isle, Detroit, Michigan.
(313) 852-4064.
Dec. 7-9. Holiday Plant Sale.
Chicago Botanic Garden, Glencoe, Illinois. (847) 835-5440.
Dec. 9-31. Olbrich's Holiday &
Train Show. Olbrich Botanical Gardens, Madison, Wisconsin.
(608) 246-4550.
North
East
Through Nov. 19. Japanese
Autumn Garden: Momijigari. New York Botanical Garden, Bronx,
New York. (718) 817-8700.
Nov. 4-19. Chrysanthemum Show.
The Botanic Garden of Smith College, Northampton,
Massachusetts.
(413) 585-2740.
Nov. 4-19. Chrysanthemum Show.
Buffalo & Erie County Botanical Garden, Buffalo, New York.
(716) 696-3555.
Nov. 9. Demystifying Bamboo in
the Urban Garden. Lecture by Michael Alfano. Horticultural
Society of New York, New York. (212) 757-0915.
Nov. 23-Jan. 1. Christmas at
the Newport Mansions. Sponsored by the Preservation Society
of Newport County. Newport, Rhode Island. (401) 847-1000.
Nov. 24-Jan. 7. Holiday Garden
and Train Show. New York Botanical Garden, New York, New
York. (718) 817-8700.
North
West
Nov. 26-Dec. 31. Garden
D'Lights. Bellevue Botanical Garden, Bellevue, Washington.
(425) 452-2750.
Dec. 2-10. Holidays at Hoyt.
Wreath workshops, gifts, and plants. Hoyt Arboretum,
Portland, Oregon. (503) 228-8733.
South Central
Nov. 4. Fall Family Garden
Fair. San Antonio Botanical Gardens, San Antonio, Texas.
(210) 207-3250.
Dec. 2. Carols & Crumpets Herb
Festival. Tulsa Garden Center, Tulsa, Oklahoma. (918)
836-5307.
Dec. 2. Holiday Herbs. Herbs
and decorations for sale. McAshan Herb Gardens at Festival
Hill, Round Top, Texas. (979) 249-5283.
South
East
Nov. 4 & 5. Amazing Mums. The
49th Annual Chrysanthemum Show
of the Georgia Chrysanthemum Society.
Atlanta Botanical Garden, Atlanta, Georgia.
(404) 876-5859.
Nov. 4 & 5. Mount Dora Plant &
Garden Fair.
Gilbert Park, Mount Dora, Florida. (352) 357-4116.
Nov. 10-12. Orchidfest. Atlanta
Botanical Garden, Atlanta, Georgia. (404) 876-5859.
Nov. 11 & 12. Ramble: A Garden
Festival. Fairchild Tropical Garden, Coral Gables, Florida.
(305) 667-1651.
Nov. 14. Mosses In Your Garden.
Lecture by Hal Massey. Hosted by the Georgia Native Plant
Society. Atlanta Botanical Garden, Atlanta, Georgia. (770)
343-6000.
Nov. 16. On The Trail for
Plants and Inspiration. Lecture by Elizabeth Dean. Hosted by
the Georgia Perennial Plant Association.
Atlanta History Center,
Atlanta, Georgia. (404) 237-8071.
Nov. 17-Dec. 31. Garden of
Lights. Norfolk Botanical Garden, Norfolk, Virginia.
(757) 441-5830.
Nov. 18 & 19. Garden Festival.
Heathcote Botanical Garden, Fort Pierce, Florida. (561)
464-4672.
Nov. 22-Jan. 7. Garden of
Lights. Cypress Gardens, Cypress Gardens, Florida.
(800) 282-2123.
Nov. 26-Dec. 31. Magic
Christmas in Lights. Bellingrath Gardens and Home, Theodore,
Alabama. (334) 973-2217.
Dec. 2. Holiday Home & Garden
Tour.
Sponsored by the Gibbes Museum of Art. Charleston, South
Carolina. (843) 722-2706.
Dec. 8-10. Winter Holidays.
Harry P. Leu Gardens, Orlando, Florida. (407) 246-2620.
Dec. through mid-Jan. Country
Christmas. Atlanta Botanical Garden, Atlanta, Georgia. (404)
876-5859.
SouthWest
Dec. 1 & 2. Holiday Fair.
Albuquerque
Garden Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico. (505) 296-6020.
Dec. 1-3. Noches des las
Luminarias.
Desert Botanical Garden, Phoenix, Arizona. (480) 941-1225.
Dec. 1-3. Luminaria Nights.
Tucson Botanical Gardens, Tucson, Arizona. (520) 326-9686.
Dec. 1-30. River of Lights. Rio
Grande Botanic Garden, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
(505) 764-6200.
West
Nov. 4 & 5. Japanese Garden
Festival. Descanso Gardens, La Canada, California.
(818) 952-4401.
Dec. 27-31. Suiseki Show.
Huntington Botanical Gardens, San Marino, California. (626)
405-2141.
Canada
Nov. 2-12. The Winter Garden
Show at the Royal. The Coliseum at the National Trade
Centre, Exhibition Place, Toronto, Ontario. (416) 263-3400.
Dec. 8-31. Festival of Lights.
VanDusen Botanical Garden, Vancouver, British
Columbia. (604) 878-9274.
Special Events
Snapshots of the
Country Place Era
Uniting the common threads in the
landscapes of seven historic estates, a new exhibition at
the PaineWebber Art Gallery in New York, New York,
celebrates a previously unexamined period of American
landscape architecture through a collection of contemporary
photographs. "A Genius for Place: American Landscapes of the
Country Place Era" features 70 black-and-white photographs
and seven color images by award-winning landscape
photographer Carol Betsch.
Built between 1900 and 1940-a period
when American rail and road systems were rapidly
expanding-these lavish "country places" were commissioned by
wealthy American industrialists as pastoral escapes from
their workaday urban worlds. The rare landscapes included in
the exhibition span the United States from coast to coast,
ranging from eastern masterpieces such as Naumkeag, the
estate of Mabel Choate in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, to Val
Verde in Santa Barbara, California, built by Wright S.
Ludington. "I felt these seven estates were the most
representative examples of the period, reflecting a
chronology of the integration of naturalistic and formal
design elements," says Robin Karson, the exhibit's curator
and director of the Library of American Landscape History in
Amherst, Massachusetts. "Their great cohesiveness, spatially
and architecturally, make these landscapes great works of
art." All of the historic estates featured in the exhibition
retain significant portions of their original designs and
are accessible to the public.
The Paine Webber Art Gallery is
located in Paine Webber's corporate headquarters at 1285
Avenue of the Americas in New York City. The exhibition is
open weekdays from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. through December 1;
admission is free. For more information, call (212)
713-2885. "A Genius for Place" will open in Washington,
D.C., in the fall of 2001, then tour the United States over
the following two years. A corresponding book by Karson will
also be published at the end of 2001.
-Margaret T. Baird, Communications
Assistant
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