Monumentale columnar sugar maples at Innisfree
Renowned public garden designer and Innisfree trustee Lynden Miller will share the only private garden in her vast body of work, her own. Lynden will discuss lessons learned and ideas perfected over more than forty years in her garden laboratory and family sanctuary.
Innisfree landscape curator Kate Kerin will reveal the remarkable design strategies and timely ecology-based management techniques that make Innisfree such a memorable and sustainable success and can be employed by gardeners everywhere.
Expert horticulturist and Innisfree trustee Brad Roeller will share one of his great passions, native trees and shrubs. In addition to sharing his own best of the best native plant list, Brad will introduce the ecological and design principles essential to successfully integrating native species into designed landscapes.
Photographer Larry Lederman and horticulturist and garden writer Tom Christopher collaborated on the book, Garden Portraits: Experiences in Nature (Monacelli, October 2020). With Larry’s magnificent images, this team will share what stands out to them in experiencing these sixteen extraordinary gardens (including Innisfree!).
Innisfree is open for Columbus Day
Garden Visits:
Sunrise Opening 6am to 9:30am, 10am to 1:15pm and 1:45pm to 5pm.
Curator’s Tours: 10am to 2pm.
Storytelling: 10:30am, 11:30am, 12:30pm, 2pm, 3pm and 4pm.
Gardener’s Tours: 11am and 3pm.
Tree Lover’s Tours: 11am and 3pm.
Qigong–Meditative Movement: 3pm.
AND Innisfree Garden Collaborates with Prestigious TED Climate Countdown: TED Senior Fellows will debut Water Rhythms: Listening to Climate Change, highlighting Innisfree Garden’s commitment to sustainability and the environment. Read more here.
Join landscape curator, Kate Kerin, for a lively 1.5 hour tour exploring Innisfree, a powerful icon of mid-twentieth century design now recognized as one of the world’s ten best gardens and listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Join landscape curator, Kate Kerin, for a lively 1.5 hour tour exploring Innisfree, a powerful icon of mid-twentieth century design now recognized as one of the world’s ten best gardens and listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Join landscape curator, Kate Kerin, for a lively 1.5 hour tour exploring Innisfree, a powerful icon of mid-twentieth century design now recognized as one of the world’s ten best gardens and listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Experience the changing hues of autumn in the Hudson Valley, which are multiplied in the reflective waters of Tyrrel Lake.
10am to 5pm
Experience the changing hues of autumn in the Hudson Valley, which are multiplied in the reflective waters of Tyrrel Lake.
Special Tours on Saturday, October 17:
Tree Lovers’ Tour: 10am
Curator’s Tours: 10am
(preregistration required)
10am to 5pm
Experience the changing hues of autumn in the Hudson Valley, which are multiplied in the reflective waters of Tyrrel Lake.
10am to 5pm
Last chance to visit Innisfree Garden
Get inspired visiting private gardens in the area as well as Innisfree.
(Scheduling dependent on COVID-19 related restrictions. Check back for updates.)
Get inspired visiting private gardens in the area as well as Innisfree.
Innisfree is open for Independence Day
Innisfree is open for Labor Day
Innisfree is open for Memorial Day
Innisfree will open about one hour before sunrise for photographers and other artists, birders, and anyone else who would like to experience the garden bathed in spectacular golden light.
Innisfree will open about one hour before sunrise for photographers and other artists, birders, and anyone else who would like to experience the garden bathed in spectacular golden light.
The meditative movement practice of qigong (“chee-gong”) teaches us to observe the energies and flows of nature and, like a wise gardener, cultivate our personal health and wellbeing according to the same principles – continual change, the balanced pulse of yin and yang, and the cycle of the five elements (wood, fire, earth, metal and water). Join movement-wellness coach Kele Baker for a practical exploration into how these Daoist principles are alive in the design of Innisfree Garden and the functioning of body and mind.
The meditative movement practice of qigong (“chee-gong”) teaches us to observe the energies and flows of nature and, like a wise gardener, cultivate our personal health and wellbeing according to the same principles – continual change, the balanced pulse of yin and yang, and the cycle of the five elements (wood, fire, earth, metal and water). Join movement-wellness coach Kele Baker for a practical exploration into how these Daoist principles are alive in the design of Innisfree Garden and the functioning of body and mind.