Beatrix Farrand American's First Landscape Architect Oct 26, Sponsor BGC

Past event
Oct 26, 2021, 1 PM

#BeatrixFarrand
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(1872-1959) was America's first female landscape architect.

Garden speaker Collen Plimpton will present Beatrix as she might have appeared in the 1930's. Enjoy Colleen's performance as she relates Beatrix's innovative, exciting and tragic life.

Come listen and learn. Free and open to the public if you have your
vaccinations and a mask: Sponsored by the Burlington Garden Club Of Vermont
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Date: Tuesday, October 26, 2021 @ 1:00 PM
Location: Faith United Methodist Church,
899 Dorset Street, South Burlington

"Beatrix Farrand, Rediscovered"
Speaker, Colleen Plimpton, NY

Beatrix Farrand designed gardens for the rich and famous, including the Rockefeller family and the Wilson White House.

Plimpton's one-woman show reveals the life, times, and gardens of Beatrix Farrand, America's first female landscape architect and gardener to the stars. Beatrix was Edith Wharton's niece responsible for garden designs at Dumbarton Oaks and the Rose Garden of the Wilson White House as well as Connecticut projects at Yale, Hill-Stead, and Harkness.

Image: Beatrix Farrand, via ced.berkeley.edu
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I did several stories about her, and published her work in Horticulture Mag eons ago.

Some of her work remains in Bar Harbor, ME. Her two main gardens are in Seal Harbor, ME and Dunbarton Oaks, in DC.

She was a fascinating designer and person.

I do hope many of you will join us.

Carolyn

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