“Beatrix Farrand is full of surprises,” says Karyl Evans, a six-time Emmy Award-winning documentary filmmaker. “She is the niece of (Pulitzer Prize-winning author) Edith Wharton and the family she was ...

The picturesque and historic landscapes of Connecticut are throwing open their proverbial garden gates for a horticultural celebration. Fifteen gardens, all members of Connecticut’s Historic Gardens, ...

FITCHBURG — The Laurelwood Garden Club will hold its first monthly meeting of the new year at 9:30 a.m. Friday, Jan. 12, at the Fitchburg Art Museum, 185 Elm St. The program will be a video ...

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A prominent figure in the history of American landscape design, Beatrix Farrand née Jones (1872-1959) was the mastermind behind the idyllic grounds of the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Garden on Mount ...

STONE RIDGE – Cornell Cooperative Extension of Ulster County’s Master Gardeners will host their 20th annual Garden Day on April 13. The day will begin with a keynote presentation about the life and ...

Evans’s historical sleuthing, which focuses on Connecticut history, has inspired documentaries for the past 30 years. Her work includes a series of documentaries for public television; “History of ...

ESSEX >>The Essex Library will welcome documentary filmmaker and six-time Emmy Award winner, Karyl Evans, who will screen her latest film and discuss Beatrix Farrand’s work with Landscape Architect ...

This is the first documentary ever produced about the life and gardens of Beatrix Farrand, the most successful female landscape architect in early 20th century America and one of the founders of the ...

Beatrix Farrand is famous for her stylish formal-garden design and for being the only female founding member of the American Society for Landscape Architects. On Tuesday evening, The Northwest ...