Planting Fields Foundation

We captured an evening stroll from the Circular Pool at Coe Hall down the Azalea Walks where the rhododendrons, azaleas, dogwoods are blooming.

Happy Memorial Day! . . . #memorialday #remember #momentofgratitude #plantingfields

Tucked away next to the West Lawn, the Heather Garden at Planting Fields is an original Olmsted Brothers design that was completed in 1927. Inspired by W.R. and Mai Coe’s travels throughout England, this feature was constructed to mimic the English Moorlands where heather thrives in abundance. Today, changes in the surrounding landscape and soil composition of Planting Fields have produced a micro-climate that makes growing heaths and heathers a challenge. Restoring the Heat...her Garden to its original design and vitality is a goal for the year ahead and one of the early action items laid out in the Planting Fields Foundation Cultural Landscape Report (CLR). A plan has been developed to amend the soil, rehabilitate the surrounding landscape, and increase our plant palette to recreate the original intention of the garden, while adhering to current climate trends and sustainability goals. Here you see the Heather Garden today alongside a photo from c. 1925, taken by Mattie Edwards Hewitt. The preservation of art and architecture is central to the mission of Planting Fields Foundation. This is one preservation initiative among several that we are highlighting in recognition of #preservationmonth . . . . #plantingfieldsarboretum #landscapedesign #landscape #landscapearchitecture #historiclandscape #olmsted #plantingfieldsfoundation See more

Next Friday, June 4, from 6:00 - 7:30 PM Long Island Chamber Music comes to Planting Fields for our first outdoor concert of the season. Featuring Gergana Haralampieva on violin, shown here, and Sarah Ghandour on cello, the performance will showcase a diverse set of composers from the Baroque era to present day who are widely known for their music for opera and ballet. This immensely talented duo will play under the newly restored West Portico of Coe Hall. Ticket holders may bring a picnic and blanket or chairs for the lawn. $32 for Planting Fields Foundation members and $40 general admission. Visit our Facebook events page OR our website to make reservations!

Planting Fields Foundation members! It's not too late to join our Panorama program this evening at 7:00 PM with talented lecturer, writer, critic, and art historian Avis Berman. She has written countless articles on American painting, sculpture, photography, illustration, design, architecture, and the social history of the visual arts for a broad range of publications including The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, The Washington Post, Smithsonian, Saturday Review..., The Boston Book Review, American Art, ARTnews, The San Francisco Examiner, The Boston Globe, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Baltimore Sun, Art in America, Art & Antiques, House & Garden, and Architectural Digest. In addition to authoring biographies on artists Edward Hopper, Roy Lichtenstein and James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Berman is also the author of the acclaimed Rebels on Eighth Street: Juliana Force and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Register on our FB events page or here on our website: https://plantingfields.org//panorama-everett-shinn-and-th/

We caught this view of the path alongside the Tea House and the Playhouse in the Rose Garden early this morning. The purple blooms are Nepeta, or Catmint, a fragrant plant native to the Caucasus and part of the mint family. Catmint attracts pollinators, including many butterfly species which helps to create an ecologically sustainable garden. If only those blue skies would reappear this holiday weekend ahead! Here’s hoping . . . Photo: Mike Voss... #plantingfields #happyfriday #springgardens #nysparks #plantingfieldsarboretum #oysterbayny See more

Seniors from Friends Academy started their internship with us yesterday and immediately got to work! Today they’re helping plant an American Hop Hornbeam tree in the Synoptic Garden. For the next three weeks, they’ll be assisting our Landscape team with prepping beds for planting, removing invasive species, planting trees and shrubs, restoring native woodland borders, and reconstructing garden borders and pathways. They’ll learn about proper pruning and planting techniques, the history of Olmsted landscape design at Planting Fields, and the combination of natural and formal elements throughout the gardens. We’re lucky to have the extra sets of hands this time of year! . . . #plantingfieldsfoundation #joinourteam #springtime #planting #plantingfieldsarboretum #getoutside #oysterbayny #nysparks

Sung Hee Lee has spent 13 weeks as an intern with the Planting Fields Landscape team and his contribution throughout the grounds extends far and wide. He has worked on multiple projects including prepping the Taxus by the Carshalton Gates, spring rejuvenation pruning, extensive planting of Rhododendron, Stewartia, Clethra, Magnolia, Sumac, White Fringetree, White Redbud, Camellia, assorted annuals and perennials throughout the Italian Garden, and helping to remove invasive vines and shrubs. Sung Hee’s internship will conclude in one week at which time he will join the New York Botanical Garden. Thank you Sung Hee for your great work at Planting Fields! . . . #plantingfieldsfoundation #plantingfieldsarboretum #team #landscape #landscaping #nysparks #publicgarden #oysterbayby #historiclandscape