Touring Topics
2008 HAH Touring Schedule
I’ve been working like a mole digging up some wonderful gardens to visit through the 2008 season. Many will be new gardens which the HAH has not visited before. A few stops will revisit one or two old favorites at a different season from the last visit. And for our new members, this is your chance to catch up. SAVE THE DATES and remember we need a minimum of 25 participants to make each tour a ‘go’. Harvey Feinstein
April 23, 2008 Do you remember that trip everyone talked about? This was one of those.
The Steinhardt Estate. A spring
return visit to the magnificent 55 acre garden in Mt. Kisco. Designed
by Jerome Rocherolle it features naturalistic walkways, stream beds,
bridges, ponds, orchards, perennial borders, flowering bulbs,
shrubs, all labeled for the viewers benefit. And not to be outdone, a
private zoo with exotic animals and birds. The Steinhardts are major contributors and directors of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden.
After lunch we have been invited to visit Penelope and John Maynard in Bedford NY. The garden was created among rock ledges and oak woods on the shoulder of Mount Aspetong. The garden areas flow from one into another linked by a ribbon of stone walls. The wide variety of plants must prove themselves in dry woodland conditions. Certainly this is one garden we have not experienced and worth the challenge.
June 16, 2008
Greenwood Gardens, Short Hills,
NJ. A successful, enjoyable trip. This is a *first for the HAH. A 22 acre garden adjoining a
2,100 acre nature preserve, designed in the Italianate style, with
vistas, terraces, and grottos incorporating Arts and Crafts materials
from the late 19th century, cascading water, rare plants.
An afternoon here and you’ll think you’ve been to Italy.
Colonial Park Arboretum and Van der Goot Rose
Garden, East Millstone, NJ. A144 acre arboretum containing
labeled specimens of flowering trees, shrubs, and evergreens. There
is also a fragrant and sensory garden, a five acre perennial garden,
and a rose garden offering a formal display of 3,000 roses, with 285
varieties… in full bloom.
Wednesday, September 17 - 18, 2008
CANCELLED TAKE A BERKSHIRE BREAK CANCELLED
Join us for a spectacular finale to our 2008 TOUR program as we overnight in The Berkshires.
Day 1. Visit NAUMKEAG, a garden designed as a summer residence in 1885 by Fletcher Steele, one of America's foremost landscape architects. Then enjoy the MISSION HOUSE, home of Reverend John Sergeant first missionary to the Stockbridge Indians, with a talk in the gardens that reflects the colonial times, featuring herbs, fruit trees, cutting gardens, and more.
Day 2. We will have a guided tour of The Gardens Of The Mount, in Lenox , the spectacular 3 acre estate of Edith Wharton. The garden has undergone an extensive restoration, bringing it back to Edith Wharton's original plan.The garden was almost lost to developers, but was saved by private contributions. Mrs. Wharton is the author of "The Age of Innocence," "Ethan Frome", and one of her great books "Italian Gardens and their Villas" In the afternoon enjoy a self guided tour of GARDENS AT CHESTERWOOD, the early 20th century estate of Daniel Chester French, sculptor of the Lincoln Memorial, and The Minute Man, in Concord, NH. The formal studio garden is a series of outdoor rooms featuring fountains, perennial boarders, sculpture, and beautiful early autumn vistas.
Accommodations for the overnight stay are at the historic RED LION INN. The Red Lion's Den is the "Berkshires Friendliest Pub." The tour includes: R/T transportation, baggage handling, taxes, tips, the services of a full time tour guide, snacks on the bus, dinner at the Red Lion; day 2 a full breakfast at the Red Lion Inn, lunch at Michael's Of Stockbridge,. There is free time to do some exploring of your own on the morning of day 2.
Details, departure schedule, departing from and costs can be found in the June HAH newsletter. The newsletter will be available on this website and the form can be downloaded.
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