Event: UNFORGETTABLE GARDENS - NAUMKEAG’S GARDEN PRESERVATION AS A FINE ART
Organizer: THE GARDENS TRUST
Speakers: Lucinda A. Brockway
Tickets: £5 (concessions may apply)
Date: Oct 26th 6:00pm UK Time. Equivalent times:
Americas - PT: Oct 26th 10:00am | ET: Oct 26th 1:00pm.
Europe - UK: Oct 26th 6:00pm | CET: Oct 26th 7:00pm.
APAC - CST/HKT/SGT: Oct 27th 1:00am | AET: Oct 27th 4:00am.

Description snippet:
"This series of four talks, organised by the Historic Gardens Foundation in partnership with The Gardens Trust, explores international examples of Unforgettable Gardens, seen through the eyes of their owners, managers, creators and restorers...

Week 4. 26 October: Polishing the Masterpiece: Naumkeag’s Garden Preservation as a Fine Art with Lucinda (Cindy) Brockway
The gardens at Naumkeag are recognised world-wide for their iconic blue steps and grove of white birches. The property is run as a public garden by The Trustees of Reservations, who have been gifted with remarkable cultural resources that continue to connect people to place, and art to nature across iconic properties in Massachusetts, USA. A recent four-year restoration of Mabel Choate and Fletcher Steele’s masterpiece, Naumkeag, overlooking the Berkshire hills, ‘polished’ their 1926-1956 garden. Steele believed that garden making should be considered one of the fine arts. His fine attention to line, colour and texture, and Choate’s pursuit of the best horticultural selections drove the restoration. Fuelled by new programmes and events, and a business planning model based on the English National Trust, Naumkeag is now opened from early spring to late December drawing record crowds as the carefully preserved garden sparkles in every season. This lecture outlines the development of Naumkeag through its creators’ own words and engages the audience with its remarkable restoration discoveries, as The Trustees continue to polish this masterpiece garden..."

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS AND CREDITS
The Gardens Trust