The Garden Conservancy is an American nonprofit organization whose mission is to preserve, share, and celebrate America's gardens and diverse gardening traditions for the education and inspiration of the public.
9-659: Founded in 1989, by Frank Cabot , the Conservancy has since helped a number of American gardens to develop preservation strategies, organizational structures, and funding plans. In some cases, the Conservancy takes the lead in transitioning the garden to a sustainable, nonprofit status. The Garden Conservancy is headquartered in Cold Spring, New York . During a visit to Ruth Bancroft 's garden in Walnut Creek, California , Frank Cabot asked Bancroft what would happen to
18-741: A public garden in 1992. In 2000, Cabot was made a Chevalier of the National Order of Quebec . He was awarded the Veitch Memorial Medal of the Royal Horticultural Society in 2002. In 2005, he was made an honorary Member of the Order of Canada . Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library awarded him the Henry Francis du Pont Award in 2003. Shortly before his death, Cabot was interviewed at length for
27-404: Is called Les Quatre Vents. He is credited with introducing a number of plants and grasses to North America, including Japanese blood grass . Les Quatre Vents has thematics fields like "Le lac Libellule", "le Pavillon japonnais de méditation", "le Pigeonnier", "le pont chinois de lune", "le kiosque à musique", "le potager" and more. In 2001, he wrote the book The Greater Perfection: The Story of
36-861: The a cappella singing group, the Harvard Krokodiloes . After college, he began constructing a garden on private property in Cold Spring, New York , above the Hudson River , beginning a lifelong passion for horticulture . Cabot was appointed chairman of the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx from 1973 to 1976. In 1989, he founded the nonprofit Garden Conservancy , after noting that two-thirds of America's great gardens had been destroyed by development. The Conservancy began with "four acres of giant cactuses, succulents and native species" in Walnut Creek, California ,
45-1056: The Gardens at Les Quatre Vents , which was the recipient of the 2003 Annual Literature Award of the Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries and which the Oxford Companion to Gardens referred to as "one of the best books ever written about the making of a garden by its creator." Cabot was also very involved in the preservation of old mills. Heritage Charlevoix, his foundation, bought "Le Moulin La Rémi" in Baie-Saint-Paul, also in Charlevoix. He invested money to rebuild this building. In 1949, Cabot married Anne Perkins. They had three children: Colin Cabot, Currie Cabot, and Marianne Cabot. Their Stonecrop Gardens became
54-790: The garden after her death. Cabot's wife suggested the establishment of a nonprofit organization for garden preservation, and the idea for the Conservancy was born. Cabot founded the organization in 1989. The first garden the Garden Conservancy opened to the public was the Ruth Bancroft Garden , which began tours in 1992 and officially became a nonprofit in 1994. Projects include: The Garden Conservancy, June 2020, #OpenDay25: A Quarter Century of America's Gardeners and Their Gardens , ISBN 978-0-578-68500-7 Francis Cabot Francis Higginson Cabot , CM CQ (August 6, 1925 – November 19, 2011)
63-580: The life's work of gardener Ruth Bancroft . The organization's Open Days program has opened more than three hundred private gardens to the public throughout the United States and has been active in the preservation of seventeen important private gardens for posterity, including the rehabilitation of the gardens at Alcatraz . Cabot became renowned for his personal gardens around the world. His garden in Cold Spring, known as Stonecrop Gardens ,
72-615: Was an American financier, gardener and horticulturist . He founded The Garden Conservancy in 1989. He was a member of the New York branch of the prominent Cabot family . After WWII service in the United States Army (when he saw Japanese gardens for the first time), Cabot graduated in 1949 from Harvard College , where he was active in Hasty Pudding Theatricals and was one of the four founders of
81-506: Was opened to the public in 1992 and is now one of the premier public gardens in the United States, encompassing sixty-three acres. Its components were influenced and improved in the 1980s by horticulturist Caroline Burgess, who became the garden's director, having previously worked with legendary English gardener Rosemary Verey . Cabot's private garden in the Charlevoix region of Quebec covers more than 20 acres (81,000 m ) and
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