IN-PERSON LECTURES

For our 2022 National Speaking Tour, Troy Scott Smith, head gardener of Sissinghurst Castle Garden, visited five cities across the country over the course of two weeks in March, recounting his long tenure at Sissinghurst and his efforts to recapture the distinctive vision of its creators.

Troy's lecture in Palm Beach, FL, was The Garden Conservancy's inaugural Daniels Family Garden Lecture made possible by the generosity of Courtnay and Terrence Daniels.

One of Britain’s best-known head gardeners, Troy Scott Smith has devoted his career to the beauty and romance of gardening Since joining the National Trust of England, Wales, and Northern Ireland in 1990, Troy has led some of the world’s most beautiful gardens, among them the Courts (Wiltshire), Bodnant (Wales), and two stints at Sissinghurst (Kent), where he has led a remarkable transformation and restoration of the Vita Sackville-West gardens.

During Troy’s national tour for The Garden Conservancy, he spoke to audiences at: The Norton Museum of Art in Palm Beach, FL, (Daniels Family Garden Lecture); Wilshire Ebell Theatre in Los Angeles, CA; Filoli Historic House & Garden in Woodside, CA; The New York School of Interior Design in New York, NY; and at Long Hill in Beverly, MA.

The event at Long Hill was particularly exciting for The Garden Conservancy as it marked the first of many planned events presented in partnership with The Trustees of Reservations, the nation’s first (and Massachusetts’ largest) preservation and conservation nonprofit, which manages over 100 historic properties.

Beyond Troy Scott Smith’s National Speaking Tour, The Garden Conservancy presented additional in-person lectures in 2022, including The View from Federal Twist: A New Way of Thinking About Gardens, Nature and Ourselves, with James Golden (in partnership with the Atlanta Botanical Garden), and Making the Morgan's Garden, with Todd Longstaffe-Gowan (in partnership with The Morgan Library and Museum).