The Cultural Landscape Foundation Announces a New Season of Garden Dialogues – Exclusive Access to Seven Kentucky Gardens, their Owners and Designers
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The Cultural Landscape Foundation Announces a New Season of Garden Dialogues – Exclusive Access to Seven Kentucky Gardens, their Owners and Designers
New Season follows Successful 2012 Inauguration–One of TCLF’s Most Popular Programs–Events in Lexington, Louisville, Midway and Versailles
Washington, DC (May 6, 2013) - What's Out There Garden Dialogues, a national program inaugurated in 2012 by The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF) that offers exclusive access to some of today’s most beautiful and innovative gardens, and the opportunity to learn about the creative process from the garden designers and their clients, has been expanded to more than three dozen locations in 2013 – including seven sites in Kentucky, June 15-16. Garden Dialogues has become one of the most popular programs in the foundation’s 15-year history, with most Dialogues sold out weeks in advance. The 2013 Garden Dialogues, taking place nationally through August, provide a distinct look at gardens and enable participants to hear firsthand about the collaborative process that led to the creation of each garden. Space is limited and nearly all Garden Dialogues are $35.00 each. Seibert & Rice Fine Italian Terra Cotta and Charles Luck are the national sponsors of Garden Dialogues.
How do garden owners and their landscape architects or designers work together to create a great garden? Garden Dialogues brings together patrons and designers to reveal the creative process, the give and take, and the collaboration that yields a great garden. Garden Dialogues provides unique opportunities for small groups to experience some of today’s most beautiful gardens created by some of the most accomplished designers currently in practice.
A: Saturday, June 15th, 10am to 12pm | Louisville (Register today) – Glenview Bluff Garden, JP Shadley, Shadley Associates Landscape Architects, with artists Craig Kaviar, Don Lawler and Meg White, and Matthew and Karine Maynard. Situated on a bluff 90 feet above the Ohio River, this lush and radiant 35-acre River Road estate combines dramatic, panoramic views with an exquisitely and artfully detailed garden. Individual areas with site-specific art offer opportunities for bliss and relaxation.
B: Saturday, June 15th, 1 to 2:30pm | Louisville (Register today) – American Life Green Roof, Mark K. Wourms, Ph.D., Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest. At 17,000 square feet, the green roof atop the Mies van der Rohe-designed American Life and Accident Company headquarters is Louisville’s largest. Along with various sedum cultivars, Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest have added three plots to test native plant adaptability to living roof environments.
C: Saturday, June 15th, 10:30am to 12pm | Midway (Register today) – Cordray Residence, Joseph Hillenmeyer Garden Design, with Richard McAlister, stone mason. Interconnected garden rooms have been created over the past nine years, ranging from a woodland garden with perennials and flowering shrubs, to formal gardens with fountains and evergreen plantings, all unified with bluestone walks and limestone walls.
D: Saturday, June 15th, 2 to 3:30pm | Versailles (Register today) – Ashford Stud Farm, Coolmore America, William Henkel of Henkel Denmark. As the Kentucky arm of the Coolmore thoroughbred horse stables that originated in Ireland, Ashford Stud Farm is a horse farm with a focus on plants. Trees, shrubs and perennials are planted in masses to create lush surroundings, privacy and wind breaks.
E: Sunday, June 16th, 9:30 to 11am | Lexington (Register today) – Victory Garden, Lois Anne Polan, with Rebecca Trafton. Formal and fanciful meet in this exuberant escape from everyday life that features 18 varieties of white roses, thousands of spring bulbs, tree wisteria, tree peonies, a serpentine-shaped glass brick wall, many varieties of white lilies, and more.
F: Sunday, June 16th, 11:30am to 1pm | Lexington (Register today) – Botherum, Jon Carloftis with Dale Fisher, Jon Carloftis Fine Gardens. Centered on a magnificent 150-year-old ginkgo tree, this new urban garden is being created around the historic Botherum mansion. Built in 1851, the eclectically-styled house was once described as “a jewel of architecture which contains the finest interior of its type in existence.”
G: Sunday, June 16th, 1:30 to 3pm | Lexington (Register today) – Mt. Brilliant, Jon Carloftis Fine Gardens. A fixture on Kentucky’s political and social scene, this 760-acre historic estate is known for its extensive gardens, including a kitchen garden full of berries, herbs and vegetables, a vineyard, a formal English flower garden and pond, and rows of dogwoods and roses.
About Seibert & Rice
Seibert & Rice is the leading American importer of handmade, frost proof terracotta planters and urns from Impruneta, Italy. For just about 20 years we have provided terra cotta planters and urns to America’s most beautiful gardens, both large and small. We have also placed terracotta pots in some of the most prestigious institutions in this country, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The New York Botanical Garden, Longwood Gardens, Biltmore Estate and the Boston Public Library. We are very proud of our reputation as the leading supplier of the highest quality terra cotta in the world.
About Charles Luck
Charles Luck is a leading architectural stone supplier with a global sales and distribution presence through its locations across the mid-Atlantic region. Charles Luck services design professionals and style-minded homeowners through consultation and sales of distinctive natural stone products. At Charles Luck, the experience is marked by tailored customer service for architects, interior designers, style-minded homeowners, masons, landscapers and builders; hundreds of stone products from around the world; and unparalleled expertise from our stone experts and studio consultants. For more information on Charles Luck, visit charlesluck.com.
About The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF)
The Cultural Landscape Foundation provides people with the ability to see, understand and value landscape architecture and its practitioners, in the way many people have learned to do with buildings and their designers. Through its Web site, lectures, outreach and publishing, TCLF broadens the support and understanding for cultural landscapes nationwide to help safeguard our priceless heritage for future generations.
