Recent LDC Trips: The Cornish
Colony, NYC, and Mt. Desert
In July 2003, LDC members traveled to Cornish, New Hampshire, and Woodstock, Vermont, where most of the group stayed at the Woodstock Inn. Highlights of the trip included visits to the Cornish Colony Museum at “Mastlands”; the Saint-Gauden National Historic Site; Cider Hill Gardens and Art Gallery; the Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park in; and two private gardens, Gilnocky Farm and Twin Gables.
During September 2003, fifty-three LDC members and guests toured outstanding horticultural gems of Connecticut, New York City (NYC), and the Bronx. On the way to New York, the group stopped to tour and have lunch at Wickham Park, Manchester, Connecticut. After arriving in NYC, the group toured with the Battery Conservancy and the Battery Park City Parks Conservancy. The day ended with a dinner at Marie Stella Byrnes’ loft in Manhattan.
The following day the group visited the New York Botanical Garden and Wave Hill, and enjoyed a champagne reception in Natasia Hopkinson’s Manhattan brownstone.
The final day of the tour, attendees toured the Chinese Scholar’s Garden at the Staten Island Botanical Garden. On the way back to Massachusetts, the group stopped to visit the Glebe House Museum and Gertrude Jekyll Garden, in Woodbury, Connecticut.
In July 2004, forty-five LDC members traveled to Mt. Desert Island, Maine. During the trip they visited several private gardens as well as Garland Farm, The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Garden, Thuya Garden and Lodge, Asticou Azalea Garden, Charlotte Rhoades Butterfly Garden, Cadillac Mountain, the Woodlawn Museum and Black House, and Lunaform.
In March 2006, LDC members attended the Philadelphia Flower Show, with stops along the way at Trombly Nursery, Monroe CT; Bartram's Garden, Philadelphia PA; and Duke Farms, Hillsborough NJ.
For More Information
For more information about the Landscape Design Study Program, contact program chairman Terese D'Urso at 781-383-1143 or tdurso98@aol.com. For more information about LDC, contact chairman Joan Schofield at 508-429-7544 or jsstargaz@aol.com.
