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Mary May Binney Wakefield Arboretum

Event 

Title:
Cultivating Legacies: New England Women in Horticulture and Landscape Design
When:
Mar.09.2019  9.30.am - 1.00.pm
Category:
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Description

Women are often overlooked when we discuss individuals who had great impact on botany and landscape design of the 20th century. The Arnold Arboretum was one of the few institutions in America that encouraged women to study with and be mentored by established botanical and landscape design professionals.

 

Mary (Polly) Wakefield (image below), Eleanor Cabot Bradley, Martha Brooks Hutcheson, Marian Roby Case and Marjorie Russell Sedgwick developed exceptional personal garden spaces and designed outstanding professional landscapes, and were also very active in the conservation and preservation of appreciable New England open space. This seminar highlights these women's personal legacies: significant plant collections and garden design within beloved public spaces. Presentations illuminate these women and their roles in creating and protecting New England landscapes, the discernible role that the Arnold Arboretum played in these endeavors, and how we can continue to raise the visibility of these special places. Program includes an associated exhibition in the Arnold Arboretum’s historic Library Reading Room and light refreshments.  Fee $50

Co-sponsored by The Trustees of Reservations, the Mary M.B. Wakefield Charitable Trust, and the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University
Register at my.arboretum.harvard.edu or call 617-384-5277.

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