A Chill In The Air: Dried Floral Wreaths for Fall
When: Saturday, October 5, 2024 – 10:00 am – 11:30 pm
Where: Landcraft Garden Foundation
Get crafty and grounded while learning the art of wreath-making! Using frames, vines, dried florals and picks, guest floral expert Beth White will walk participants through the steps of assembling a wreath that captures the essence of fall and all its wonders. From bare branches to dried fruits and flowers and maybe even a woodland creature or two, nothing is off limits, and every wreath will reflect your own inner artist. Frames and floral materials provided.
The Layered Garden: A Three Season Container
When: Saturday, September 21st, 2024 – 11:00 am – 1:00 pm
Where: Landcraft Garden Foundation
There are dainty spring containers and riotous summer containers, containers of copper, gold, burgundy and purple for fall and sometimes an evergreen stuck in a pot for winter; but what if there was a container that spanned three seasons in one planting? There is! Creating a layered container of bulbs, fall cabbages and dramatic dried autumnal florals gathered in the center can last from the early fall to late spring and even early summer. Join Landcraft Garden Foundation’s Head Gardener Kerry Ann McLean for this innovative and cost-effective floral display in a pot. Learn all the tips and tricks to keeping this arrangement of live and dried material fresh and gorgeous for its full 8 months of display!
Honey Harvest at the Landcraft Garden
When: Friday, August 30th, 2024 – 10:30 am – 12:00 pm
Where: Landcraft Garden Foundation
Chris Kelly will teach participants how to better understand the importance of the bee, as well as how gardeners and wildlife lovers alike can contribute to their prosperity in our very own backyards. In addition to his informative walk & talk, Kelly will demonstrate his hands on approach to beekeeping, capped off with a demonstration on harvesting honey straight from the source. Come join us for a special closeup of the honeybee – learn the basics of how, why and what we do to establish a hive – then taste for yourself the wonder of raw, unfiltered honey.
Welcoming Wellness at the Landcraft Garden
When: Friday, August 30, 2024 – 4:30 pm – 6:30 pm
Where: Landcraft Garden Foundation
Immerse yourself in the tranquil surroundings of the pine grove with Lesaya Kelly as you engage in a guided meditation where you can mindfully release stressors and foster peace. Following the meditation, participants will embark on a silent walk through the Labyrinth. This tactile and sensory experience is designed to ground individuals in the present moment and promote a still mind. The event will conclude with a gathering where participants can share their reflections at the end of the silent walk.
Pilobolus Family Workshop
When: Sunday, August 25, 2024 – 10:00 am – 11:30 am
Where: Landcraft Garden Foundation
In a playful, productive and fast-paced workshop designed for families and people of all ages and abilities, we will create alphabet letters with the human body! The workshop begins with a Pilobolus warm-up and exploration of principles of collaborative creativity and partnering basics. Then Teaching Artists will guide participants to work together to create the human alphabet.
The Pilobolus Family Workshop was made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
Garden Design: Three Perspectives
When: Saturday, August 3, 2024 – 10:00 am – 11:30 pm
Where: Landcraft Garden Foundation
In surveys and from conversations, we understand that you, our friends and guests of LGF, want to understand the design dialogues and happy accidents that made the Garden as it is today. During open days, staff and volunteers can, at best, offer tidbits into the intentionality that connects all the different rooms, features and plant combinations. However, there is usually just not enough time for a deep dive, until now. Join The Garden’s creators Dennis Schrader and Bill Smith, and LGF’s Head Gardener Kerry Ann McLean as they offer three comprehensive but different perspectives on the design process. Learn their tips and tricks to making a great garden.
Natives and More: Glover Perennials in the Garden
When: Wednesday, July 31, 2024 – 10 am – 11:30am
Where: Landcraft Garden Foundation
Join Jim Glover as he tours Landcraft Garden highlighting the strange and special plants that are specific to Glover Perennials. The Garden at Landcraft is proud to grow an extraordinary number of Jim’s plants for their many outstanding qualities which Jim will explain. Learn which plants will give you multiple seasons of interest, feed pollinators early or late into the season, or have aesthetic forms that will enhance any design. This is a rare opportunity to hear the many merits of relatively unknown plants from a master plantsman.
Glazed Planter Workshop
When: Saturday, July 27, 2024 – 11:00 am – 1:00 pm
Where: Landcraft Garden Foundation
Using methods like traditional Majolica, Ester R. Kislin will teach students to glaze and decorate pre-made terracotta planters using metal oxides, stains and the unique brushwork required for glazing. This course includes instruction, inspiration, two planters, glazes, oxides and stains, and a firing. The finished products will be fired and returned for pick up approximately one week after the course completion.
Painting in the Garden: Plant Forms & Vignettes
When: Friday, July 19, 2024 – 9:30 am – 4:00 pm
Where: Landcraft Garden Foundation
Explore watercolor painting in beautiful Landcraft Garden with Wendy Prellwitz, taking inspiration from individual plants and the amazing garden environment. We will review basic watercolor techniques, how to use materials & tools, and color mixing, The day begins with a plant form still life and moves on to vignette views working out in the garden. Some familiarity with watercolor is helpful, but not required, as all levels of experience are welcome.
Digging Deeper, A Garden Conservancy Event: Topiary, Art of the Clipped Form
When: Saturday, July 13, 2024, 10:00am – 12:00pm
Where: Landcraft Garden Foundation
Topiary is the practice of training a plant into a shape through careful and repeat clipping and other manipulations. Topiary is also the plant that has been topiarized. At Landcraft Garden Foundation, we often assemble assorted classic topiaries (balls and cones) when building a tablescape for events. Singularly or in a group, nothing elevates display making as quickly as the topiary. Get the inside scoop on how to train a young houseplant cutting to a photo-ready tabletop topiary.
Pocket Meadow Containers: Pollinator Friendly Pots
When: Saturday, June 22, 2024 – 11:00am – 1:00pm
Where: Landcraft Garden Foundation
Pocket gardens and pocket meadows are bite-sized plantings; crammed with plants suggestive of much larger gardens or open spaces, they are often very small – sometimes no larger than a pot on a stoop. But despite their size, they are great opportunities to expand an area’s plant diversity and to create much needed habitat for displaced pollinators looking for food, rest or places to nest. Make your own pollinator haven using locally-grown native and near native plants in a container perfect for your deck, porch or balcony. Landcraft’s horticulturist and educator will guide the selection and arrangement of plants and how to craft and incorporate additional nesting structures for beneficial insects and animals within the planting.
Monitoring the Migration: Bird Watching and Identification
When: Fridays, May 3, 10, 17, and 24, 2024 – 8 AM
Where: Landcraft Garden Foundation
Diversity is at the core of Landcrafts’ ethos. Whether it be vegetive, two legged, or four, Landcraft welcomes all; and in May, Landcraft is especially excited to welcome back to the garden its migrating feathered friends, the birds. Through mindful gardening practice, Landcraft, over the years has become a proud and very special bird sanctuary with a glorious diversity of birds either passing through or nesting within its 17 acres. Join Birding Guide, Ben Bolduc, as he helps guests see and understand the calls and habits of all the birds, conspicuous and inconspicuous, making Landcraft their home.
Close to Home: Bouquet Making with North Fork Flower Farm
When: Saturday, May 18, 2024 – 10:00am-12:00pm
Where: Landcraft Garden Foundation
Join us in a bouquet-making workshop using seasonal flowers grown by the North Fork Flower Farm in Southold. The workshop is two hours long and includes an introduction to floral design by the team at NFFF. Bouquets are made using seasonal May flowers grown on the farm and include anemone, ranunculus, tulips, blooming fruit branches, and more. All floral materials are provided. Bring your own vases or use our quart Mason jars. Charles Sherman and Drianne Benner will be leading the workshop.
Mossy Pots
When: Saturday, May 25, 2024 – 10:30am – 12:00pm
Where: Landcraft Garden Foundation
Learn how to encourage the growth of moss on a favorite piece of stone or pottery using simple ingredients and a touch of patience. Join LGF Head Gardener, Kerry Ann McLean, as she reviews the wonders of moss and demonstrates how to encourage its growth on terra cotta and stone.
Painting in the Garden: Plant Forms & Vignettes
When: Friday, July 19, 2024 – 9:30 am – 4:00 pm
Where: Landcraft Garden Foundation
Explore watercolor painting in beautiful Landcraft Garden with Wendy Prellwitz, taking inspiration from individual plants and the amazing garden environment. We will review basic watercolor techniques, how to use materials & tools, and color mixing, The day begins with a plant form still life and moves on to vignette views working out in the garden. Some familiarity with watercolor is helpful, but not required, as all levels of experience are welcome.
The Perfect Houseplant: Bromeliad Neoregelia
When: Saturday, April 13, 2024 – 10 AM – 11:30 AM
Where: Landcraft Garden Foundation
Meet your houseplant soulmate: Neoregelia – the blushing Bromeliad. Easy to care for, exceedingly vibrant and very happy indoors, this epiphytic plant doesn’t need soil, full sun or a lot of water. In fact, it thrives on relatively benign neglect (what more can you ask of any plant!). Join LGF Head Gardener and Educator, Kerry Ann McLean as she reviews the wonderful world of bromeliads, heralded most recently by NY Times columnist Margaret Roach as the easiest plant class to grow indoors. Pot up your own specimen plant in a hanging crate and discover how addicting to a collector this Genus can be!
Spring Zing: Seasonal Kokedamas
When: Saturday, March 30, 2024 – 10 AM – 11:30 AM
Where: Landcraft Garden Foundation
Want spring flowering plants without the heartache of a rogue late frost killing them prematurely? Make these manageable spring-inspired moss balls to decorate your home. Kokedama is the Japanese tradition of growing bonsai in balls of soil covered in moss. They are highly symbolic of the verdant earth; replace the bonsai with pansies, anemone, or bulbs, and they are the early bird songs of spring. Enjoy the color and vibrancy of spring flowering plants indoors, away from the fickleness of March and April temperatures. Hang them in windows, set them in saucers or glass, or place them on altars of driftwood – these giftable and fun living ornaments will delight guests and bring the promise of growth and renewal to your fingertips.
An LGF Spring Preview, Inside and Out
When: Saturday, March 23, 2024 – 10:00 am – 1:00 pm
Where: Landcraft Garden Foundation
There’s newness in the air this spring – the Garden is going into its fourth season as one of the must-see attractions of the North Fork, and its new conservatory is under construction. We a re pleased to welcome back perennial favorite Vincent A. Simeone, who will lead an eye-opening outdoor tour of a garden on the threshold of spring; then move indoors with Landcraft Environment’s co-owner, LGF’s co- founder, Dennis Schrader to preview the Landcraft private plant collection – a display of tropical plants from around the world – created and curated for decades by Dennis and Bill Smith. Simeone will highlight the wonders of landscape emerging from rest, while Schrader will inspire the plant collector in all of us.
