Up early this morning, and therefore i had a lot of time to walk around. So being inw york, washington is a tremendous pleasure. The fountains were going and the trees were just getting that wonderful spring green. I really thought this is americas versailles. You know . This is our place. That louisrred to me the 14th probably thought it was a really good big deal. What we are talking about is really a very big deal. Designing gardens for the president ial house. Speak, butcoming to it really came into amazing context for me. I was just kind of Walking Around and seeing it. When i was first called to moderate this panel, i said since i am a garden journalist, i said i have never talked about any garden that i have not seen. And i had no concept of what the east wing look like. Years ago i wrote about rose garden and he called me one day and said can you come right down and see it. It was guarded very carefully and i never got to see anything else. I said i would be happy to do ways i
Mildred bliss, who was a great friend of hers. She could let her hair down a bit and explain all the things that were going on in her life. But i think the garden notebook, which is a very important document, takes us through all the things she went through and her spot on comments about maintenance, design flaws. From the beginning, she have this incredible i think that was the most important thing that she brought to her Landscape Design career. That gavecial context her clients, but she would have been nowhere even with both clients she did not have that incredible insight into design and criticism. When i was looking at the program, when they first presented it to me, i had to learn about a little bit of the history. I did not want people to think we had the Beatrix Farrand garden all the way up which was then removed for the Justice Kennedy guarded. Just close, i will give you a little capsule of what happened between the two of them. Because actually, in the 1920s, and this is ve
This program was part of a daylong symposium hosted by the White House Historical association. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2018] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] ms. Griffin i would like to introduce the panel that is entitled the legacy of Beatrix Farrand. The members, who are very close, will each give a short presentation on her work. The first will be paula deitz, who is editor of the hudson review. The second is judith tankard, author of Beatrix Farrand, private gardens, public landscape. The third is therese omalley, at the National Gallery of art. [applause] ms. Deitz it is wonderful to be here. I was up early this morning, and therefore i had a lot of time to walk around. I am from new york, so being in washington is a tremendous pleasure. I woke up when the fountains were going and the trees were just getting that wonderful spring green. I really thou
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