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OUR MISSION The mission of the Garden Conservancy is to save and share outstanding American gardens for the education and inspiration of the public.

The Garden Conservancy works to: • Preserve gardens by partnering with gardeners, communities, horticulturists, garden designers, and historians • Share distinctive gardens and ideas with the public through Open Days, tours, and other educational programs • Champion the vital role gardens play in our culture, our history, and our quality of life

BOARD OF DIRECTORS Benjamin F. Lenhardt, Jr. Chairman Courtnay S. Daniels Vice-Chairman Jenny Young du Pont President & CEO Paul B. Redman Vice President Howard G. Seitz Secretary/Treasurer

Amory A. Armstrong1 Robert M. Balentine2 Mary-Randolph Ballinger2 Shelley Belling Allison K. Bourke Antonia Hunter Breck Susan Payson Burke F. Colin Cabot Barbara Whitney Carr J. Barclay Collins II2 Page Dickey Elizabeth Everdell Dorothy H. Gardner Lionel Goldfrank III Susan Zises Green Henry P. Johnson Suzanne Kayne Susan Lowry Joseph Marek2 Evelyn M. McGee3 Chapin Nolen3 Suzanne Rheinstein Deborah Royce Jorge A. Sánchez Paul G. Sittenfeld Patricia A. Steffan Susan Stone3 Rodman Ward, Jr.

Directors Emeriti Linda Allard Douglas H. Banker Josephine B. Bush Edward N. Dane Dr. Gilbert S. Daniels John K. Greene Polly W. Guth Thomas B. Hunter III Posy Krehbiel Dr. Richard W. Lighty Joseph F. McCann Evelyn M. McGee Chapin Nolen Barbara Paul Robinson Susan Stone Nancy Thomas Louise Wrinkle

WEST COAST COUNCIL Shelley Belling Elizabeth Everdell Co-chairs Kate Rowe Archer Antonia Hunter Breck Marion Brenner Elizabeth Byers Andrea Cochran Kaye Heafey Peggy Hinman Janell Denler Hobart Russell Keil Joseph Marek Susie McBaine Maura Morey Mary Read Suzanne Rheinstein Mike Rippey Tom Rohlen Suzanne Tucker Richard G. Turner, Jr. Alexis Woods

1. Left board in 2015 2. Joined in 2015 3. Retired in 2015

THE GARDEN CONSERVANCY Post Office Box 219, Cold Spring, NY 10516 • 845.424.6500 • info@gardenconservancy.org 38 Keyes Avenue, Suite 204, San Francisco, CA 94129 • 415.441.4300 • wcprog@gardenconservancy.org www.gardenconservancy.org • facebook.com/the.garden.conservancy

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THE GARDEN CONSERVANCY 2015

Letter from the Chairman and President 2015 was a good year—an opportunity to celebrate the many accomplishments of the Garden Conservancy’s first twentyfive years and to focus on further growth. Thanks to the hard work of the staff and the support of all of our members, partners, and donors, the Garden Conservancy is in a strong position as we move into our second quarter century.

We continue to be the nation’s leader in garden preservation. In 2015, we reviewed our preservation work, improved our systems for identifying and taking on gardens, and clarified our goals for our preservation work going forward. We hired the first garden director at the Chase Garden and set strategic goals for the garden. We transferred the Rocky Hills conservation easement to the Westchester Land Trust, and supported the Atlanta History Center’s restoration of the Swan House boxwood garden and the construction of a new potting shed at The Fells in New Hampshire.

We identified new preservation gardens and laid the groundwork for taking them on in 2016.

Our Open Days program is the nation’s only national garden visitation program. In 2015, we opened 320 private gardens in twenty-two states and introduced Digging Deeper lectures and pop-up plant sales to complement garden visiting. Last September, Open Days was recognized by the Garden Writers Association for its service in promoting gardening in North America.

Our Society of Fellows visited a variety of beautiful gardens and historic landscapes during our 2015 garden-study tours to Atlanta, the Gold Coast of Long Island, Mount Desert Island, and South Africa.

In September, we published Outstanding American Gardens, celebrating the Garden Conservancy’s first twenty-five years of saving and sharing outstanding gardens across the country. The book was a huge success, quickly selling out its first two printings. In addition, the special anniversary edition of our annual report was awarded an honorable mention by the Public Relations Society of America.

Late last year, we hired new dedicated education staff on both coasts, to help us build out our education program and increase the range and locations of our programming.

All of these accomplishments were possible because of the support of the hundreds of individuals and organizations listed in this publication’s Report of Gifts section. To each of our members, supporters, partners, and friends across the country, thank you. Special thanks to Suzanne and Ric Kayne for their generous $500,000 challenge grant, which was fully matched in early 2015.

As Sofia Blanchard of our preservation garden Greenwood Gardens often reminds us, gardening is a way of showing that you believe in tomorrow.

Benjamin F. Lenhardt, Jr. Chairman of the Board

Jenny Young du Pont President & CEO

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PURSUING OUR MISSION

Bringing Together People and Gardens Bringing together people and gardens is fundamental to our mission to save and share outstanding American gardens for the education and inspiration of the public. One of the most effective ways in which we do this is through Open Days, our signature national garden visiting program, which opens beautiful and private gardens to the public across the country from early spring to late autumn. Open Days is our most visible and effective means of igniting a love for gardening in new generations and fostering an appreciation of nature, the landscape arts, and the future of American gardening. Started twenty-two years ago, Open Days has grown in scope and stature, and has become a seasonal tradition for tens of thousands of visitors every year, from Los Angeles to Bar Harbor, Seattle to Miami, and Houston to Milwaukee.

In 2015, we introduced exciting new Open Days educational programs, including a series of pop-up nurseries and Digging Deeper events, both of which proved to be very popular. We are adding more Digging Deeper programs, increasing the range of pop-up garden shops, and introducing opportunities to meet experts in the garden—all designed to enhance visitors’ garden visits, attract younger audiences, and expand our mission and reach into new markets. And, of course, to be fun as well!

Our very first Digging Deeper event was held at a June 2015 Open Day in Albion, CA, followed by a guided tour of Digging Dog Nursery (photo). In its inaugural season, Digging Deeper events proved very popular with Open Days visitors, offering them insights from garden specialists on topics such as combining edibles with aesthetics, pottery and dahlia growing, and landscape architecture and gardening.

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PURSUING OUR MISSION

Preserving Inspiring Artistic Visions What makes gardens outstanding is often the unique artistic vision of their creators: the gardens become living works of art as worthy of preservation as masterpieces on canvas. We help private gardens become public, acting as an advisor and coach. We also help existing public gardens undertake projects to restore and rehabilitate aspects of their gardens, many of which embody significant and historic design styles.

One example of the kinds of gardens we work with is the Chase Garden in Orting, Washington, a beautiful example of the Pacific Northwest mid-century garden style. It blends modernist and Japanese styles to create a unique, peaceful experience in a spectacular setting.

In 2015, we hired the first director for the garden and worked with her to expand programming and visitation.

Also in 2015, we began to develop a garden documentation program aimed at creating a visual and archival record of the artistic vision and design of gardens. Our goal is to preserve online the legacies and features behind their at-risk gardens as enduring educational resources, making them accessible to anyone, anywhere, anytime. With parameters for the project in place, we began documenting two gardens in New York State: Rocky Hills in Mount Kisco and the Humes Japanese Stroll Garden in Locust Valley.

The majesty of a moment in time—dramatic sunshine shining through a dawn redwood in autumnal dress at Rocky Hills in Mount Kisco, NY—was captured for the ages by photographer Andre Baranowski. We are gathering images along with historical records, maps, videos, and audio recordings for an online garden documentation project launched in 2015 thanks to the new Frederic Rheinstein Fund.

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Bringing America’s Cultural Legacy to Life Many of the emerging and established public gardens that we assist are registered national historic sites and important parts of America’s landscape design and horticultural legacy.

We are supporting the Lord & Schryver Conservancy (L&S Conservancy) in its efforts to preserve Gaiety Hollow in Salem, Oregon, as a historic site and community resource. Gaiety Hollow was the home, office, and garden of Elizabeth Lord and Edith Schryver, who formed the first all-female landscape architecture firm in the Pacific Northwest. The firm became a major force in shaping the city of Salem and designed more than 250 landscapes in the region. We are working with the L&S Conservancy to create a strategic marketing plan and raise visibility for the garden.

In the fall of 2015, we supported the Atlanta History Center in its restoration of the Swan House boxwood garden to its original 1930s appearance, as designed by one of Atlanta’s foremost architects, Philip Trammell Shutze. Late last year, we also provided funds to enable The Fells Historic Estate & Gardens in New Hampshire to construct a new potting facility as part of an overall capacity building campaign.

In November 2015, we announced a Garden Conservancy grant to help the Atlanta History Center restore the iconic Swan House boxwood garden. In preparing the area for the planting, horticulturists unearthed long-forgotten traces of the original design, a serendipitous finding that is guiding the replanting of a circle of redbud trees in Philip Trammell Shutze’s design from the 1930s.

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PURSUING OUR MISSION

Showcasing Best Practices in Horticulture and Design Our preservation work helps to save many gardens that are notable not only for their design features, but also for their exceptional plant collections and horticultural practices. Peckerwood Garden in Hempstead, Texas, is a good example. In 2015, with support from the Garden Conservancy, Peckerwood began a digital documentation project to catalogue the garden’s extensive collection of oaks and other trees.

At the end of the year, we also finalized and accepted a conservation easement on the garden to help ensure that the garden and its more than 3,000 species of rare and endangered plants will be protected in perpetuity.

We also share best practices in horticulture and design through a variety of high-quality educational programs in key locations across the country. In 2015, for example, we featured internationally renowned garden designers Luciano Giubbilei and Arne Maynard in a series of distinguished lectures in Chicago, Los Angeles, New York City, and San Francisco. We hired an education director focused entirely on programming and are broadening our educational efforts to provide more offerings.

As part of eight distinguished lectures we offered in four locations in the fall of 2015, British garden designer Arne Maynard presented a personal account of his creative process at the Walt Disney Family Museum (photo) in San Francisco and also at the Ebell of Los Angeles. Maynard is known for his ability to create gardens with a keen sense of harmony and belonging.

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Fostering Vibrant Communities Public gardens serve as important gathering places for their communities, connecting neighbors to neighbors and one generation to another. The Ruth Bancroft Garden in California, Greenwood Gardens in New Jersey, Hollister House Garden in Connecticut, and Hortulus Farm in Pennsylvania are examples of gardens we have helped emerge as public resources and with which we continue to partner. Each of these gardens has developed robust public programming—from garden tours to musical performances to educational workshops—that draw people from their immediate communities and well beyond.

The Garden Conservancy is also collaborating ever more closely with the American Public Gardens Association, which represents more than 9,000 garden professionals and more than 600 public gardens—the vast majority of them small and emerging. We are helping the APGA serve the needs of member gardens, particularly small ones, in a variety of ways.

We presented a program at the 2015 annual APGA conference in Minneapolis and more collaborations are underway.

Our Garden Conservancy Northwest Network (GCNN) is an association of more than twenty small public gardens, city parks, and horticultural organizations in the Pacific Northwest that promotes resource sharing, networking, and professional education among its members. The GCNN serves as a resource in the region for peer support and cross-marketing.

We hope to establish similar networks of gardens in other key regions.

An Easter egg hunt at Longue Vue House & Gardens in New Orleans is an example of the many enduring community benefits of the garden restoration that we helped enable after Hurricane Katrina’s devastation ten years ago. Longue Vue’s community programs include a range of educational programs for children of all ages. Photo courtesy of Longue Vue House & Gardens.

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Statement of Financial Position

Statement of Activities and Changes in Net Assets

December 31, 2015 and 2014

ASSETS Cash Investments Other assets Non-current assets Fixed assets Total Assets LIABILITIES Current liabilities Total Liabilities

NET ASSETS Permanently restricted Temporarily restricted Unrestricted - board designated

2015

2014

December 31, 2015 and 2014

2015

2014

$293,934 18,592,190 201,146 13,105 434,634 $19,535,009

$751,782 18,473,606 323,120 19,712 436,858 $20,005,078

$312,464 $312,464

$209,460 $209,460

$10,980,571 469,732

$11,029,713 449,983

1,351,580

1,365,041

Unrestricted net assets undesignated Net revenue/(expense) current year Total Net Assets

6,993,735

5,072,637

(573,073) $19,222,545

1,878,244 $19,795,618

Total Liabilities and Net Assets

$19,535,009

$20,005,078

2015 Sources of Public Support and Revenues

Contributions 57%

PUBLIC SUPPORT Contributions Membership Total Public Support

2015

2014

$1,778,133 288,209 $2,066,342

$2,739,598 279,453 $3,019,051

$395,215 406,465 574,010 (356,840) 73,410 $1,092,260 $3,158,602

$404,896 532,192 518,674 880,766 82,578 $2,419,106 $5,438,157

$2,814,487

$2,586,851

557,549 334,604 $3,706,640

586,022 387,040 $3,559,913

(573,073) 19,795,618 $19,222,545

$1,878,244 17,917,374 $19,795,618

REVENUES Open Days sales and admissions Admissions and special events Interest, dividends, and realized gain Unrealized gain Other Total Revenues Total Public Support and Revenues EXPENSES Program services Supporting services Management and general Fundraising Total Expenses NET ASSETS Changes in Net Assets Net Assets - beginning Net Assets - ending

2015 Distribution of Expenses

Preservation Gardens and Programs 45%

Open Days Program 18% Endowment Draw for Operations 19% Garden-study Tours and Educational Programs 11%

Garden-study Tours and Educational Programs 15% Management and General 13%

Open Days Program 11%

Fundraising 9%

Other 2%

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THE GARDEN CONSERVANCY 2015

Report of Gifts Gifts from Garden Conservancy members, donors, garden clubs, and other organizations, together with grants from foundations and corporations, sustain our mission to save and share outstanding American gardens for the education and inspiration of the public.

We are deeply grateful to all of our donors for their participation and support, and regret only that we cannot name each of them on these pages. We are also grateful to our many volunteers and partners. Our efforts to save and share gardens across the country are possible only with their collaboration and support.

The lists on the following pages recognizes members and donors who contributed $125 or more in cumulative gifts between January 1 and December 31, 2015.

Photo above: A detail of textures, fruit, and foliage from Margaret Roach’s garden, a popular destination in our Open Days in Columbia County, NY. Photo by Marion Brenner.

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$20,000+

Anonymous Philip & Shelley Belling Mr. & Mrs. Terrence D. Daniels Suzanne & Ric Kayne Mr. & Mrs. Benjamin F. Lenhardt, Jr. Ms. Susan D. Phipps Mr. & Mrs. Michael C. Ruettgers Ms. Jennifer Speers Mr. & Mrs. Roger W. Stone Mr. & Mrs. Rodman Ward, Jr. Mrs. Susan Zises Green

$10,000 - $19,999

Anonymous Mrs. Thomas N. Armstrong III Mr. & Mrs. Robert M. Balentine, Jr. Mr. George Ball Mrs. Walter F. Ballinger II Mrs. Susan P. Bechtel Mrs. Barbara M. Bryant Mr. & Mrs. Coleman P. Burke Mr. & Mrs. F. Colin Cabot Mr. & Mrs. Stephen T. Colbert Mr. & Mrs. Gerald Doren Ms. Kristina Durr & Mr. J. Barclay Collins II Dorothy H. & John R. Gardner Mr. & Mrs. Lionel Goldfrank III Mr. & Mrs. John K. Greene Mrs. Francis W. Hatch Ms. Rise S. Johnson Ms. Posy Krehbiel Ms. Janine Luke Ms. Charlotte Moss Mr. & Mrs. Richard T. Niner Mr. & Mrs. Howard Phipps, Jr. Mrs. Frederic Rheinstein Mr. & Mrs. John R. Robinson Mr. & Mrs. Charles M. Royce Mr. & Mrs. Andrew P. Steffan Merrielou H. Symes Mr. & Mrs. J. Taft Symonds Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence Tucker Mr. & Mrs. Richard K. Weil, Jr. Ms. Shelby White Mrs. William R. Wister, Jr.

$5,000-$9,999

Ms. R. Ellen Avellino Mr. & Mrs. Robert A. Bartlett, Jr. Ambassador & Mrs. Alan J. Blinken Mr. & Mrs. Frederic A. Bourke III Antonia & Peter Breck Rev. & Mrs. Frederick Buechner Mrs. Robert F. Carr III Mrs. Gordon L. Davenport Mrs. John R. Donnell Mrs. Robert W. Duemling Ms. Deborah L. Duncan Mr. & Mrs. Coburn D. Everdell Mrs. William R. Fair Mr. & Mrs. Richard T. Grote Dr. & Mrs. Douglas Hampson Mr. & Mrs. Albert P. Hegyi Mr. & Dr. Charles B. Johnson Mr. & Mrs. Henry P. Johnson Mr. & Mrs. Robert D. Lindsay Susan & Glenn Lowry Mr. Joseph Marek & Mr. John W. Bernatz Ms. Janet Mavec & Mr. Wayne Nordberg Susan & William McKinley Ms. Judith Munzig Mr. & Mrs. Chapin Nolen Debra Havens Patrick Sarah & Ross Perot, Jr. Mrs. Marguerite C. Potter-Feinberg Mr. & Mrs. Steven M. Read Mr. & Mrs. Thomas P. Rohlen Mr. & Mrs. Howard G. Seitz Mr. & Mrs. Michael Steinhardt Mrs. Warren A. Stephens Mr. & Mrs. David Traitel Mr. & Mrs. Paul D. Vartanian Ms. Nancy Voorhees Mrs. William F. Zuendt

$2,500-$4,999

Anonymous (2) Dr. & Mrs. Nile L. Albright Mr. & Mrs. Peter J. Andersen Mr. & Mrs. Robert S. Anderson Ambassador Victor Ashe Mrs. Anne H. Bass

The stunning natural beauty of Maine’s Mount Desert Island was the setting for our Society of Fellows garden-study tour of beautiful gardens, including some designed by Beatrix Farrand and Jens Jensen, in July 2015.

Mr. Craig K. Bergmann & Mr. Paul Klug Mrs. George P. Bissell, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Peter P. Blanchard Mrs. Joanne W. Blokker Maureen & Edward P. Bousa Ms. Beatrice Bowles Ms. Kathrin S. Brown & Mr. William Gedale Mr. & Mrs. John H. Bryan, Jr. Ms. Mary Buckingham Mr. Richard T. Button Shawn Byers Mrs. Sharon B. Casdin Mr. & Mrs. Morris Cheston, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Alan B. Clark Mrs. James Connelly Mr. & Mrs. Edward Conner Mr. & Mrs. John V. Crowe Mr. & Mrs. James L. Currie Mr. & Mrs. Peter Dalglish Mrs. Marvin H. Davidson Mr. & Mrs. Nathaniel B. Day Mrs. Howard M. Dean Mr. & Mrs. James W. DeYoung Ms. Page Dickey & Mr. Francis Schell Mrs. Suzanne S. Dixon Ms. Patricia Elias & Mr. Michael Rosenfeld Georgianna B. Erskine Dr. & Mrs. Ernest R. Estep Mrs. Mary Fleming Finlay Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence Flinn, Jr. Dr. Sumner L. Freeman & Dr. Roy K. Yeager Mrs. H. Clay Frick II Karen & Ned Gilhuly Mr. & Mrs. James Glasser Ms. Jeanne Goodwin Mr. John B. Goodwin, Jr. Ms. Mary F. Griffith Mrs. Henry F. Harris Greg & Sally Hartman Mr. & Mrs. Richard Heafey Ms. Daisy Helman Mrs. Kathryn M. Herman Mrs. Patricia H. Highberg Mr. & Mrs. Harvey Hinman Mr. & Mrs. Roger B. Hull Mr. & Mrs. Robert Jaunich Ms. Katherine Kane & Dr. Olin West Marcia Kay & Ron Radelet Jane & Bob Keiter Mr. & Mrs. Richard King Mr. David Kirchner & Mr. Scott Warner Mrs. Richard Krementz Mr. & Mrs. Frederick A. Landman Mrs. Robert Lindsay Mrs. Frederick R. Lummis Mr. & Mrs. Angus C. Macbeth Mrs. John Francis Maher Ms. Jacqueline G. Maritz Mr. & Mrs. Kendrick W. Mattox, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Peter McCausland Mr. Thomas E. McCutchen Mr. James McDonough Mr. & Mrs. Andrew McNally IV Mr. & Mrs. Alexander R. Mehran Mr. Steven L. Merrill Ms. Sally M. Muspratt Mrs. Donivee Nash Ms. Deborah Nevins Mrs. Joan Newton Mr. & Mrs. Jonathan Oppenheimer

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Dr. F. Thomas Ott Susan R. Palm Mr. & Mrs. Jonathan Hay Pardee Ms. Diane E. Parish Katie Ridder & Peter Pennoyer Ms. Jean Perin Mr. & Mrs. Charles Perrin Mrs. Laura B. Perry Ms. Renvy G. Pittman Mr. & Mrs. Michael H. Podell Trevor Potter & Dana Scott Westring Mr. & Mrs. George Powell III Mr. & Mrs. Alexander M. Power Mr. Paul B. Redman & Mr. Dean O. Berlon Mr. & Mrs. Charles F. Richards, Jr. Mrs. Marie W. Ridder Mr. Karl D. Riemer Mrs. Louise C. Riemer Mrs. Ralph E. Rudin Mrs. Elizabeth B. Ruprecht Mr. & Mrs. Jorge A. Sánchez Mr. Gilbert P. Schafer Mr. & Mrs. Thomas F. Schlafly Ms. Beverly McGuire Schnur Mr. George E. Schoellkopf & Mr. Gerald Incandela Sara Lee & Axel Schupf Mr. James M. Schwentker III Elizabeth C. B. & Paul G. Sittenfeld Ms. June M. Smith Mr. & Mrs. L. Caesar Stair III Ms. Wendy Stark Ms. Erin Sullivan Mr. Eric Sundback Sandra J. Swanson Ms. Raun Thorp & Mr. Brian Tichenor Mr. & Mrs. Gary Tobey Mr. & Mrs. John S. Troy Ms. Suzanne M. Tucker & Mr. Timothy Marks Mr. & Mrs. Thomas V. H. Vail Mr. Jack Weeden Mrs. David A. Weir, Jr. Ms. Nicole S. Williams & Dr. Lawrence Becker Jean & Rick Witmer Cynthia W. Woods

$1,500-$2,499

Anonymous Ms. Nancy Alvarez Mr. & Mrs. Peter Archer Ms. Ann G. Ash Mr. Michael Bakwin Brittain Bardes Mrs. Constance Goodyear Baron & Dr. Barry C. Baron Ms. Cheryl Beall Ms. Patricia Benner Ms. Chotsie Blank Ms. Sheila A. Brady Helen B. Breck Kelly & Sam Bronfman Ms. Eliza M. Brown Mrs. H. Benjamin Burley III Ms. Lisa Campbell Dr. & Mrs. Charles Carroll IV Mr. & Mrs. George H.V. Cecil Mrs. Pamela V. H. Clark Mr. & Ms. Percy H. Clark III Pamela Taylor Clyne Mr. & Mrs. Bert D. Condie III Ms. Melissa Condie

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Mr. & Mrs. Robert Cushman Mr. & Mrs. William E. Deitrick Mr. & Mrs. Francis Donovan Mr. & Mrs. William J. Donovan, Sr. Mrs. Sherry Dumke Mr. & Mrs. Jeffrey G. Edwards Mr. & Mrs. Robert Erving Mr. John R. Ettinger Mr. & Mrs. Brian Everist Mr. & Mrs. Henry J. Fair, Jr. Mrs. David N. Farr Mr. Marc Fleishhaker Mr. & Mrs. William H. Frederick, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. James M. Garnett Mrs. Cosby W. George Mr. Charles H.C. Gerard, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Giovine Dr. & Mrs. John W. Given Mr. & Mrs. S. Taylor Glover Ms. Dorian Goldman & Mr. Marvin Israelow Ms. Agnes Gund Ms. Dorothy C. Haase Mr. & Mrs. Richard Habermann Mr. & Mrs. William J. Hagenah Mrs. Samuel M. V. Hamilton Melissa & Shepard Harris Mr. & Mrs. William B. Harrison, Jr. Florence S. Hart Ms. May Brawley Hill Mr. Douglas Hoerr Mr. & Mrs. James R. Houghton Mr. & Mrs. Richard G. Jacobus Ms. Jane R. Kellogg Mr. & Mrs. Thomas F. Kranz Mr. & Mrs. Michael Lasky Mr. & Mrs. Thomas B. Lemann Richard & Sally Lighty Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth C. Lippmann Elizabeth Locke Ms. Christine London & Mr. Michael Taylor Mrs. John J. Louis, Jr. Liza Jane MacNaughton Mr. & Mrs. Robert P. Marshall Mr. & Mrs. Joseph H. McGee Ms. Maryfrances Metrick Mrs. Pamela Miles Mr. & Mrs. Walter Montgomery, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Clement C. Moore II Mr. & Mrs. John Needham Ms. Prudence J. Noon Mrs. Kandi Osborn Mrs. Edward King Poor III Ms. Lynn Pyle Ms. Donna Raftery Mr. & Mrs. Charles C. Read Diana Reuter-Twining, AIA Mr. & Mrs. Jon Q. Reynolds Mrs. Richard E. Riegel, Jr. Ms. Nancy R. Ruffner Ms. Joann Schwentker Mr. & Mrs. George H. Shattuck, Jr. Mrs. W. P. Snyder IV Mr. & Mrs. Robert K. Steel Mrs. Henry S. Streeter Mr. & Mrs. John R. Tankard III Mrs. Thomas E. Taplin Mr. & Mrs. Hans E. Tausig Mrs. Theodore Tieken Ms. Meredith Townsend Mr. & Mrs. P. Coleman Townsend, Jr. Mr. Mish Tworkowski & Mr. Joseph Singer Mrs. John A. van Beuren

Mr. & Mrs. Dale M. Visokey Daniel & Charlotte Ward Mrs. Penelope P. Wilson Mr. & Mrs. John N. Wrinkle Mr. & Mrs. Milton F. Zeutschel

$750-$1,499

June & Robert Anderson Mr. & Mrs. Scott L. Byron Ms. Kathleen W. Casey Mr. Steven Christopher & Mr. Gary Alan Governor & Mrs. Pierre S. du Pont Ms. Nancy P. Durr Dr. Jim Felser Kristin & Charles Flood Mr. & Mrs. Gates Hawn Mr. Michael D. Johnson Mr. & Mrs. Peter Lapham Mrs. Linda M. Loveall Ms. Catherine Matteson Lynden B. Miller Ms. Kyra L. Montagu Mr. David T. Orthwein Mr. & Mrs. Bruce C. Perkins Mr. Robert A. Pfenning Alice Platt Mrs. Kathleen Pomeroy Mr. & Mrs. Charles Raskob Robinson Mrs. Elizabeth Barlow Rogers Ms. Wendy Shattuck & Mr. Samuel Plimpton

$500-$749

Ms. Emily Aber & Mr. Rob Wechsler Ms. Nola M. Anderson & Mr. James X. Mullen Mr. Louis J. Appell, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Douglas H. Banker Mr. & Mrs. Henry R. Berghoef Mrs. Graham M. Brush, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Thomas A. Cicarella Mr. Stephen M. Clement III Ms. Dorothy R. Davies & Mr. Jeremy R. Kramer Mr. H. Corbin Day Mrs. Mario di Valmarana Ms. Beirne Donaldson Mrs. Libby Emge Ms. Iona Fromboluti Wirls Mr. & Mrs. Benjamin H. Griswold IV Mr. Thomas B. Harris Ms. Lusi Hart Mr. & Mrs. Ian Hooper Mrs. Kate R. Jamison Mr. & Mrs. John P. Keller Mrs. Joan M. Kram Ms. Charlotte B. Lord Mr. & Mrs. Britton J. McConnell Mrs. Dorothy Meggitt Mr. & Mrs. Jeff Mennen Mr. & Mrs. Joseph W. Merrill Mrs. Virginia A. Millhiser Ms. Alexandra Munroe Ms. Darwina L. Neal Mr. & Mrs. David Osborne Mrs. Andrea Reimann-Ciardelli Ms. Linda Schlein Mrs. Margaret Nolin Selby & Mr. Adrian Selby Ms. Melissa A. Shennan Mr. & Mrs. Ned S. Stanley Ms. Karen K. Thomas Mr. Robert L. Turner Mr. & Mrs. David Waltz

Garden Conservancy members enjoyed a special guided tour of Stonecrop Gardens in Cold Spring, NY, in early fall.

Mr. & Mrs. Frank Watson Mr. & Mrs. Richard Wayne Mr. & Mrs. Charles H. Weed Dr. Patricia Wells Ms. Jeanne T. Will Mr. & Mrs. Spencer V. Wissinger

$250-$499

Ms. Michele Adams Dr. Rochelle Albin Dr. & Mrs. David L. Andrews Ms. Frances C. Ashley Mr. & Mrs. William Barnett Mr. & Mrs. Duane A. Benton Ms. Caroline Beverstock Ms. Lisa Bielefeld Ms. Helen Bodian & Mr. Roger E. Alcaly Mr. & Mrs. Charles C. Bowen Ms. Eleanor Briggs Ms. Gioia T. Browne & Mr. Jim Marsh Ms. Enid J. Busser Ms. Allison Caccoma Mrs. Patricia Cencek Mr. Andrew Champ Mr. & Mrs. Henry T. Chandler Ms. Kathryn V. Clancy Ms. Andrea Cochran, FASLA Ms. Ann R. Coffin Mr. & Mrs. A. Crawford Cooley Ms. Laura H. Cunningham Ms. Karen A. Curry Mr. John G. Danzer & Mr. Chip Allemann Mrs. Mary Davenport Mrs. Kathy de las Heras Mr. & Mrs. Roger Deromedi Mrs. Jennie L. DeScherer Ms. Helen Dimos, ASLA Ms. Joan M. Drerup Mr. & Mrs. Bruce I. Drucker Mr. Terence F. Eagleton Mr. & Mrs. Timothy K. Earle Dr. & Mrs. Kenneth Eisold Mrs. Brahm Elkin Mrs. Bryan Ellis Mrs. Margaret Falk Mr. & Mrs. Thomas N. Farmakis Mr. & Mrs. Gary Fine Mr. Byron Foote Ms. Jean Fort Mr. & Mrs. Lucien R. Fouke, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Stanley Fry

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Mrs. Elizabeth Stout-Fuchs & Mr. David Fuchs Ms. Ashley G. Gable Ms. Christen C. Garrett Ms. Renata Gasperi & Mr. Donald J. Frediani Mr. & Mrs. Austin H. George Ms. Nancy Gilbert & Mr. Richard Wines Ms. Sandra L. Glick Ms. Cecily Grand Ms. Kathi S. Grant Mr. & Mrs. Tom Groark Mrs. Donna Guldimann Dr. & Mrs. Thomas B. Hall III Dr. W.O. Hargrove Mr. Richard Hartlage Mrs. Gene M. Hassan Jane & William Havemeyer Mr. & Mrs. Harold Heck Mr. & Mrs. John L. Hendry III Mr. & Mrs. John H. Hewitt Ms. Marlena C. Heydenreich Ms. Rosemary Hughes Ms. Vibeke Jensen Mr. & Mrs. P. Frederick Kahn Mrs. Thomas W. Keesee, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Robert E. Kehoe, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Barron Kidd Ms. Karen J. Kirmis Anne U. Kittrell, Ph.D. Mrs. Carolyn M. Knutson Mr. Alan W. Kornberg Mr. Robert E. Kulp, Jr. Ms. Suzanne Kuser Mr. & Mrs. Paige B. L’Hommedieu Mr. James H. Landon Ms. Alexandra Langner Mr. & Mrs. Brian Laragh Mr. & Mrs. Lewis E. Lehrman Mrs. Alice Levien Ms. Susan Levkoff Cynthia & Richard Livermore Mrs. Eleanor P. Lloyd Ms. Ann R. Loeffler Mr. William Louis-Dreyfus Mr. & Mrs. Peter L. Malkin Mr. & Mrs. Ecton R. Manning Mrs. Pat Mellon Lanis & Thomas Monfried Ms. Vasiliki Moskos Mrs. Mary Eugenia Myer Mr. Erik Nicolaysen

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New highway signs and billboards installed in 2015 help people find the way to “almost paradise” at the Chase Garden in Orting, WA.

Ms. Patricia O’Donnell & Mr. Jim Donovan Ms. Judy Payne Mrs. Chiswell D. L. Perkins Mr. & Mrs. Donald Petersen Ms. Jane Potrykus Ms. Elizabeth C. Pringle Mr. Paul Provost Mrs. Lynn R. Quintrell Mrs. Lily B. Rice Mr. & Mrs. Walter Richter Ms. Louise Rosenfeld Mrs. Elizabeth Boardman Ross Mr. & Mrs. Robert W. Rounsavall III Ms. Pauline Runkle Mr. Charles Schmidt Mrs. Barbara Schumacher Ms. Adrian L. Scott Ms. Sandy Scott Ms. Elisabeth S. Searles Mrs. Richard A. Shaffer Mrs. Barbara Shapiro Mr. & Mrs. Harvey Shein Mrs. Hannah R. Shipley Mrs. Linda W. Siecke Ms. Mary-Frances Snow Mr. & Mrs. Herbert H. Sprott Mrs. Rose H. Steiner Mr. & Mrs. Alan Stern Mr. James W. Stewart Mr. & Mrs. John Stroh, Jr. Ms. Patricia J. Sullivan Ms. Linda Trapkin & Mr. Edward Klein Ms. Lynde B. Uihlein Mrs. Gay E. Vincent-Canal Ms. Edwina Von Gal Mrs. Arete Swartz Warren Mrs. Eric W. Weinmann Mr. & Mrs. Charles D. Weller Mr. John F. Wilcox Ms. Deborah E. Wiley Mr. & Mrs. Gary Wincott Mrs. Deanne H. Winokur Ms. Julia Sinclair Winton Mrs. Dana Woody Ms. Paula Zakaria

$125-$249

Mr. David W. Albrecht Mrs. Laura K. Appel Mrs. Patricia Applegate Mr. & Mrs. William M. Archer III Ms. Astrid Artunian Mr. & Mrs. Allie P. Ash, Jr. Ms. Lisa S. Ausherman

Ms. Dianne Balfour & Mr. Carl Adkins Mr. & Mrs. James A. Barba David & Wendy Barensfeld Ms. Joan M. Barth Ms. Karen Bartholomew Ms. Gretchen Bartzen & Mr. Mike Rippey Ms. Diane M. Beck Ms. Leslie C. Becker Mr. & Mrs. G. Nicholas Beckwith III Ms. Jayne Bentzen Mrs. Nancy Berner Ms. Yasmeen Bernstein Ms. Linda Bily Ms. Mary Blake Ms. Dianna Blodgett Ms. Terri Boissonneault Ms. H. Abigail Bok Ms. Jo Ann L. Bones Mr. & Mrs. Charles Bonnes Mr. Michael Boodro & Mr. Robert Pini Mrs. Dorothy J. Borland Mr. Michael Boss Ms. Elizabeth R. Boylan Mr. & Mrs. John M. Bradley Ms. Lourinda S. Bray Ms. Carolyn S. Brody Mr. Lee Brownson Mr. & Mrs. Arthur R. Bruce Mr. & Mrs. Charles H. Buck III Mr. Thomas A. Buckley Mr. Thornton W. Burnet, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Martin Bush Mr. Stephen F. Byrns & Mr. Tom Lollar Ms. Janice Blythe & Mr. Michael Traynor Mr. & Mrs. John G. Cabot Mr. & Mrs. Robert B. Cadwallader Mr. & Mrs. Donald G. Calder Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence C. Caldwell Mr. Jay E. Cantor Jenny Rose & Gus Carey Ms. Laura E. Chandler Katherine & Thomas Chapin Ms. Constance M. Clark Ms. Polly M. Clark Ms. Jean Cocozza Mr. & Mrs. Bruce Cohen Mr. & Mrs. Harry D. Cohen Mr. Peter D. Conzett Mr. Richard W. Copeland Ms. Margaret J. Costello Mr. & Mrs. Ellis Cousens

Mr. Thomas Croft Ms. Leslie D. Cronin Ms. Sylvia B. Dahl Mrs. Robbie Dalton Mrs. Judith Danforth Mrs. Christian S. Daviron Ms. Randi Davis Mr. & Mrs. Carl Dawson Mr. & Mrs. Robert G. DeLaMater Mrs. Julie M. de Vaulx Ms. Tracy K. DiLeo Ms. Dana K. Dirickson Mr. Paul Doherty & Mr. David Behnke Ms. Pat Doudna Mrs. Paige Doumani Mr. & Mrs. Edward G. Dowling, Jr. Mrs. Mary Lynn Dubler Ms. Barbara G. Duffy Ms. Laine Dunham Ms. Francesca M. Eastman Mr. & Mrs. Frank Eberhart Dr. & Mrs. Philip D. Edwards Mr. & Mrs. Mike Elliott Ms. Gay Ellis Ms. Kathryn Ertel Ms. Elizabeth S. Eustis Ms. Arlene E. Evans Ms. Lora Fasolino Mr. Emer Featherstone Ms. Nancy Feldman Mr. George K. Fenn, Jr. * Mr. & Mrs. Jose Ferrer Mrs. Cynthia Fields Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Finn Ms. Doris P. Fischer Ellen & Charles Fishman Mr. Gene Fleet Mrs. Irene C. Forbes Mr. & Mrs. Richard Forbes Mr. & Mrs. David Foster Mr. William H. Foulk, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Walter L. Foulke Ms. Florence Bryan Fowlkes Mr. Paul A. Frank, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. David Fryberger Ms. Cindy Galli Ms. Lisa Gamsu Mr. A. George Gebauer Ms. Mary Ann Glatt Ms. Ellen Gould Mr. Everardo Goyanes Mr. & Mrs. Donald Graham Mrs. Ann H. Granbery, ASLA Mr. & Mrs. Lester Greenberg Ms. Fayal B. Greene & Mr. David Sharpe Mr. Henry Gwiazda Ms. Margarete Harvey Ms. Kimberly A. Hatch Mr. Christian Havemeyer Ms. Myra Hecht Ms. Kathryn A. Heintz Mr. & Mrs. Philip J. Hempleman Mr. Donald Henley Ms. Carrie E. Hewitt & Mr. Adam Shils Mr. James M. Higgins Steve & Carol Higgins Ms. Mary Ellen Hinkel Ms. Christy D. Hobart & Mr. Henry Shapiro Mrs. Lauri Hoenig Ms. Mary Pat Hogan Ms. Linda Jane Holden

Dr. Richard Holden & Rev. Cynthia Holden Ms. Merilee Holst Mr. & Mrs. Richard Holt Ms. Esther Howlett Ms. Mary-Ann Hrankowski Ms. Judy L. Hu Mr. & Mrs. Victor J. Huebner Ms. Fredericka Hunter & Mr. Ian Glennie Ms. Andrea Hurd Mrs. Pamela V. Jeanes Evelyn & Michael Jefcoat Gary & Ann Jeffers Mr. Howard E. Jessen Mrs. Edward C. Johnson III Mr. & Mrs. Gary Johnson Ms. Anna Jones Mr. & Mrs. R. Sidney Jones, Jr. Mrs. Julie Jordin Ms. Dorothy Kamins Mr. Bruce J. Kasl Mrs. Kathy A. Keller Mrs. James M. Kellogg Betty & Jim Kenan Ms. Martha L. Kennedy Ms. Katherine H. Kerin Ms. Sylvia Kindig Ms. Karin D. Kingsley Mrs. Laureen S. Knutsen Ms. Joan A. Komaromi Mr. Paul Krich Mr. & Mrs. Keith Kroeger Miss Tillie Page Laird Ms. Barbara Lamb Ms. Karen Lamensdorf Ms. Louise W. Lamphere Ms. Kyle Landt Mr. & Mrs. James M. Large, Jr. Richard & Abbie Laskey Ms. Victoria Laubach Mr. & Mrs. Ledlie Laughlin Mr. Robert N. Laughlin Ms. Jonna G. Lazarus Ms. Nell Leach Mr. & Mrs. Henri J. Leclerc Ms. Laura W. Lee Ms. Sharon Lee Mr. & Mrs. Gregor Leinsdorf Mr. Christopher Lepard Ms. Patricia A. Lombard & Mr. Bill Simon Ms. Jean V. Lowe Ms. Mary Lungaho & Mr. Barry Goff Mr. & Mrs. Leslie O. Lynch Mrs. Susan E. Lynch Mrs. John G. MacDougal Amanda & George Mahoney Dr. & Mrs. Ward W. Maier Mr. & Mrs. Brad Malt Ms. Maribea Marranca Ms. Brenda Martin Ms. Kathryn S. Martin Mrs. Liz Martinez Mr. & Mrs. Graham A. Marx Richard & Beverly Masaitis Dr. Eve H. Rice & Dr. Timothy D. Mattison Mr. Eugene McCarthy Regina & Doug McCorkle Mr. Michael R. McGrath Mr. & Mrs. Jason McManus Mrs. Ruth C. Mead Mrs. G. W. Merck *

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Ms. Lisa Miao Ms. Mary Anne A. Mielke Ms. Cheryl Miller Mr. Roger Miller Ms. Michelle Minks Ms. Deborah Mintz Mr. Edward G. Mitchell Mr. & Mrs. Tom Mitchell Mr. & Mrs. Robert L. Montgomery David & Mary Moore Ms. Caroline Morris Ms. Virginia Morthland Ms. Jan Muntz, AIA Mrs. Deborah Myers Ms. Genevieve B. Nauman Mr. David C. Nelson Ms. Diane Newbury & Mr. Steven P. Berman Mr. & Mrs. Robert Nichols Ms. Ann Nichols Ms. Jill Nooney & Dr. Robert S. Munger Ms. Susan E. Ogle Mr. Robert Ohlerking & Mr. Christopher Li Greci Mr. & Mrs. John Olsen Mr. & Mrs. William A. Osborn Mr. & Mrs. Glenn Ostrander Ms. Sondra Browning Ott Mrs. Katharine S. Overlock Ms. Beena Palekar Ms. Suzanne M. Papa Ms. Lisa R. Parmley Ms. Susan Patton Ann & Joseph Perkowski Ms. Julia G. Perlman Ms. Elaine H. Peterson & Mr. Richard Kahn Ms. Liz Petruska Mr. & Mrs. Daniel Pichney May & Daniel Pierce Ms. Susan Pinsky & Mr. Marc Rosen Mr. & Mrs. Charles A. Platt Ms. Robyn Pocker Mr. & Mrs. William L. Pope Ms. Nancy Goslee Power Ms. Doris Price Deal Mr. John A. Ptak Mr. & Mrs. John W. Puth Ms. Jane M. Quinn Mr. & Mrs. Robert R. Raimondi Mr. Harvey Rappaport Mrs. Polly C. Rattner Mrs. Varner H. Redmon Mr. & Mrs. Joseph Reed Ms. Hope W. Reese Ms. Frances M. Rehwald Ms. Teresa K. Reid Ms. Denise Rempe Mrs. Virginia M. Reynolds Mr. & Mrs. William Richards Mrs. Peirson Richardson Dr. & Mrs. William J. Robb II Ms. Roxana B. Robinson Ms. Betsy Rolls Mr. Charles Root Mr. Wesley F. Rouse, Jr. Ms. Polly P. Rowley Ms. Kerstin G. Royce Mr. & Mrs. Harry C. Rubicam Mr. Mike Rushing Mr. David Samuelson Ms. Gail Kiley Sanders & Mr. Nick Sanders

Dr. Carla Sands & Mr. Fred C. Sands Mr. Sheafe Satterthwaite Mrs. Harriet H. Savage Ms. Susan Schindelar Ms. Carol Schnall Mrs. William C. Schock Ms. Laurel Schroeder Ms. Susan Schumann-Skehan Ms. Patricia Scott Mr. F. Augustus Seamans Mr. & Mrs. Charles H. Seilheimer, Jr. Mrs. Carol Seldin Ms. Wendy B. Serrell Dr. Laura Sessums & Mr. Blake Biles Ms. Honey Sharp & Mr. David Lippman Ms. Victoria Shaw Mrs. Frances B. Shepherd Brett Sherman Mr. & Mrs. James R. Shoch III Mr. Scott B. Shrader & Mr. Mark Hemphill Patricia & Mort Silverman Ms. Mary G. Singh Ms. Jessica H. Skipper Ms. Janet Slater Mrs. Elizabeth C. Sluder Mr. & Mrs. Roy Louis Smart III Mrs. Suzanne T. Smart Mr. & Mrs. Richard Smith Mr. & Mrs. John Snyder Ms. Diane T. Spencer Ms. Penni I. St. Hilaire Mrs. W. Laird Stabler, Jr. Ms. Kathy Stern Ms. Carol Stevens Mr. & Mrs. James M. Stewart Ms. Andrea G. Stover Mr. & Mrs. Sabin C. Streeter Ms. Roxanne E. Sutton Mr. & Mrs. David Swinford Ms. Vanessa Taber Mr. James P. Thayer, Jr. Mrs. Margaret G. Thomas Mr. Richard C. Thompson Mr. & Mrs. Charles Thornton Dr. Louisa Thoron Mr. & Mrs. Richard H. Tiede Mr. & Mrs. Robert Tiffany Ms. Coralie S. Toevs Ms. Sheila M. Tustin Mrs. Amy J. Tyson Mr. & Mrs. Roger Ulrich Mrs. Phoebe P. Vaccaro Ms. Margaret Valbona Ms. Barberie H. van Valey Mr. Scott VanderHamm Mr. & Mrs. Roger B. Vincent Mr. & Mrs. Jeff von Munkwitz-Smith Mr. & Mrs. Robert G. Walker Dr. Joel E. Wasley III Ms. Dorsey Waxter & Mr. Richard Armstrong Ms. Wendy Weaver Chaix Mr. & Mrs. E.W. Weeks Mr. & Mrs. Glenn Weeks Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Weinroth Geraldine & David White Ms. Tracy White Kathryn & Harold Wiebusch Mr. Walter F. Wientge, Jr. Mr. & Mrs. Brent Williams Ms. Mary E. L. Wilson

Peckerwood Garden’s John Fairey and horticulturist Susan Howard take measurements to document the garden’s extensive collection of Mexican oaks.

Photo by Bethany Jordan.

Ms. Christina D. Wood Ms. Jean Wood Mr. & Mrs. Keith Wortman Mr. & Mrs. Charles J. Young Nancy & Jeffrey Yourell Ms. Liz Goodfellow Zagoroff Ms. Kim E. Zorniger Ms. Ellen M. Zumbach

IN HONOR OF

Colin Cabot

by Ms. Wendy Shattuck & Mr. Samuel Plimpton Courtnay Daniels

by Mr. & Mrs. Benjamin H. Griswold IV Tanya DeMarsh Dodson

by Mr. & Mrs. Pat Dunn John & Christie Hastings

by Ms. Emilie Gibbs Steve & Carol Higgins

by Mrs. Mary Weinstock Henry & Susan Johnson

by Mr. Mish Tworkowski & Mr. Joseph Singer Karole Kiefer

by Mr. & Mrs. Michael S. Funsinn Ben Lenhardt

by Ms. Cheryl H. Nichols

by Mr. & Mrs. Roger W. Stone Patti McGee

by Mrs. Virginia M. Reynolds Rosina McIvor

by Philanthropic Education Opportunities Edward & Vivian Merrin

by Garden Club of Peekskill Suzanne Rheinstein

by Mr. Doug Turshen

by Mr. Mish Tworkowski & Mr. Joseph Singer Tom & Shelagh Rohlen

by Ms. Monika Hunt David & Margaret Salas

by Ms. Sylvia Salas

IN MEMORY OF

Cathy Armstrong

by Ms. Ashley Hauck & Mr. John Armstrong Marjorie Cuthbertson

by Yorke E. Nelson Carol Savage Davis

by Amanda & George Mahoney

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Dorothy J. Day

by Mr. H. Corbin Day Marie Gravel Dempsey

by Mrs. Gertude McLean Carolyn Fabel

by Ms. Kim Fabel Frances Robertson Galante

by Ms. Christina Noce

by Ms. Roberta E. Struski Richard Galef

by Jane & Jim Cohan

by Mr. Jay A. Ganzman

by Mr. & Mrs. Larry Kadish

by Mr. & Mrs. Dennis L. Mareb

by Dr. Jay B. Rohrlich

by Mr. & Mrs. Herbert L. Wilson John McLennan

by Mrs. John McLennan Mrs. Herman D. Nichols

by Ms. Farida K. Fox Doris Penico

by Mr. & Mrs. William Wettstein Andrea Rhodes

by Mr. & Mrs. Nick Guzman David M. Salas

by Ms. Sylvia Salas Joan Throckmorton

by Ms. Paula Zakaria

FOUNDATIONS, CORPORATIONS, AND ORGANIZATIONS

The Achelis and Bodman Foundations AG Foundation The Albright Foundation Trust Alchemy Foundation Robert & June Anderson Fund for Art & Education of Fidelity The APAS Foundation Ashe Donor Advised Fund at the East Tennessee Foundation The Azby Fund Barbourtown Foundation Barger Family Fund Anne Hendricks Bass Foundation Beall Family Foundation Irwin Belk Educational Foundation Bessemer Trust The Beverly Vista Trust Bluestone Foundation Judy Buechner Advised Fund of Fidelity Charitable Richard T. Button Foundation, Inc.

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Carroll Family Foundation Colbert Family Fund of Coastal Community Foundation of South Carolina The Community Foundation for the National Capital Region Bert Condie Family Foundation Connelly Family Foundation Edward & Nancy Conner Fund at the East Bay Community Foundation Crab Tree Farm Foundation, Inc. The Marvin H. Davidson Foundation, Inc. Davies/Weeden Fund Day Family Foundation The Carl & Roberta Deutsch Foundation Doren Family Trust Foundation of Fidelity Charitable Douglass Winthrop Advisors LLC Louisa Copeland Duemling Charitable Lead Trust Jane du Pont & Barron U. Kidd Family Fund of Dallas Foundation Nancy P. Durr Fund of Fidelity Charitable EBSCO International Inc. Henry Fair Family Fund for the Environment Fiduciary Trust Company International Elizabeth Taylor Fessenden Foundation Fleishhaker Foundation Stephanie & Lawrence Flinn, Jr. Charitable Trust Furthermore: a program of the J.M. Kaplan Fund Sumner Gerard Foundation Half Moon Foundation Margaret Weatherly Hall & Dr. Thomas B. Hall III Fund Hamilton Family Foundation The Mary Hampson Family Charitable Fund The Kathryn M. & Ronald J. Herman, Jr. Charitable Foundation Johnson Fund of Fidelity Charitable Kayne Foundation Kelly Foundation Lauren & Richard King Charitable Trust Emily Landecker Foundation, Inc. Lavori Sterling Foundation, Inc. The Lenhardt Foundation Leon Levy Foundation Kenneth & Lois Lippmann Charitable Foundation, Inc. Josephine P. & John J. Louis Foundation The Lubin Family Foundation Liza Jane MacNaughton Fund of Silicon Valley Community Foundation Mariani Landscape, Inc. McKinnon & Harris, Inc. Andrew & Jeanine McNally Charitable Foundation Nelson Mead Fund Steven L. Merrill Family Foundation Michael & Pamela Miles Gift Fund at Ayco Charitable Foundation

Betty James & Walter S. Montgomery, Jr. Foundation MSB Cockayne Fund, Inc. My Good Fund Nautilus Foundation, Inc. The Niner Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Chapin Nolen Fund of the Santa Barbara Foundation Nuveen Investments Onaway Island Fund of the San Francisco Foundation Orange County Community Foundation S. Bartley Osborn Family Charitable Trust Owl Foundation, LTD Palm Foundation Patrick Family Foundation The Sarah & Ross Perot, Jr. Foundation The Perry Family Fund Donald & Jo Anne Petersen Fund The Howard Phipps Foundation Susan Lynde Duval Phipps Foundation Plimpton-Shattuck Fund Plymouth Hill Foundation Porpoise Fund of Fidelity Charitable T. Randolph Potter, Jr. Charitable Lead Trust George & Wendy Powell Fund of the Kuehn Foundation R. J. Family Fund at Schwab Charitable The Jon Q. & Ann S. Reynolds Family Trust The Richardson Family Charitable Fund Barbara Paul Robinson & Charles Raskob Robinson Fund Thomas & Shelagh Rohlen Fund at the San Francisco Foundation George W. & Kate M. Rowe Fund of the East Bay Community Foundation Ruettgers Family Charitable Foundation Schwab Charitable Fund Kathryn & W. Harry Schwarzschild Fund Seedling Fund of Coastal Community Foundation of SC Seitz Family Partnership George H. Shattuck, Jr. & Isabel C. Shattuck Charitable Foundation Elizabeth C. B. & Paul G. Sittenfeld Family Fund Alexander C. & Tillie S. Speyer Foundation Stanley Smith Horticultural Trust Robert K. Steel Family Foundation The Meyer & Jean Steinberg Family Foundation The Stockman Family Foundation Roger & Susan Stone Family Foundation Edward & Merrielou H. Symes Charitable Fund Thomas & Beatrice Taplin Fund of the Denver Foundation Tilia Foundation The Susanne & Gary Tobey Family Foundation The Topfield Foundation Inc. David & Joan Traitel Family Trust The Mary Ann & Lawrence Tucker Foundation

An Open Days visitor gets just the right angle at Michael Trapp’s garden in West Cornwall, CT.

UBS Donor Advised Fund van Beuren Charitable Foundation The Walbridge Fund, Ltd. Richard & Vanessa Wayne Family Fund The Widgeon Point Charitable Foundation, Inc. The Witmer Family Fund at Fidelity Charitable

MATCHING GIFT FOUNDATIONS Bank of America Matching Gifts The Benevity Community Impact Fund Goodrich Foundation IBM Corporation Kayne Foundation Kingdon Capital Management LLC Nuveen Investments Pfizer Foundation Prudential Matching Gifts Program Sprint Foundation United Technologies

GARDENS AND GARDEN CLUBS Aullwood Garden Brookside Garden Club The Chanticleer Foundation Driehaus Estate Fauqhier & Loudoun Garden Club Friends of Pearl Fryar Topiary Garden Garden Club of Dobbs Ferry Garden Club of Montclair Garden Club of St. Louis Green Fingers Garden Club Greenwich Garden Club Hortulus, Inc. Hunting Creek Garden Club Longwood Gardens, Inc. North Shore Garden Club

Rake & Hoe Garden Club, Inc. of Westfield, NJ Rye Garden Club Short Hills Garden Club Storrier Stearnes Japanese Garden Three Harbors Garden Club Van Vleck House & Gardens Watertown Garden Club Westmoreland Hills Garden Club Wyckoff Area Garden Club

BEQUESTS

Estate of Madeline Adezio Wendy Klodt Revocable Trust

OPEN DAYS PROGRAM George Ball Sue B. Bottigheimer Broken Arrow Nursery Chris Feibusch Virginia A. Korteweg William Kurtis Judy Levin Cliff Miller Marion Miller Peter Mullins Maureen L. Ruettgers Shelby White

MEMBER DISCOUNT CLUB PARTICIPANTS

Avant Gardens Inc. The Ruth Bancroft Garden Bard College Arboretum Bluestone Perennials CobraHead LLC Johnny’s Selected Seeds Master Garden Products Native Landscapers and Garden Center White Flower Farm Womanswork

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Open Days Volunteers and Partners Thank you to all of the dedicated volunteers, hosts, regional representatives, and partner organizations who made our 2015 Open Days season possible!

ADVISORY COMMITTEE Mr. Craig Bergmann Mr. James deGrey David Ms. Page Dickey Mr. Robert Hyland Ms. Susan Lowry Mr. Joseph Marek Mrs. Ellen Ecker Ogden Ms. Margaret Roach Mr. Marco P. Stufano

REGIONAL REPRESENTATIVES

Mrs. Jeanne M. Anderson Mrs. Brie Arthur Mrs. Sally Barnett Ms. Ginger Bason Ms. Martyn Belmont Mr. Patrick Boyd-Lloyd Ms. Charlotte Boyle Mr. Michael Brennan Mrs. Jytte A. Brooks Mr. Frank Brown III Mrs. Ellen Cool Kwait Ms. Debbie Davis Ms. Page Dickey & Mr. Francis Schell Ms. Paula Gaies Ms. Chrys Gardener Mr. & Mrs. Ian Hooper Ms. Mary Jasch Julie Jordin Ms. Nicole Juday Mrs. Barbara Kehoe Ms. Sara M. Knight Mr. Benjamin F. Lenhardt, Jr. Mr. Joseph J. Marek Ms. Janet Mavec Ms. Erica Max Mrs. Rosina B. McIvor Mrs. Laurie A. Meyer Mrs. Lynn Murray Mr. Carl Nelson Ms. Diane Newbury Mr. George E. Schoellkopf Mrs. Elena Shoch Mr. Larry J. Simpson Mrs. Linda Skyler Ms. Sandra J. Swanson Ms. Lois Vander Waerdt Ms. Terry Wagner Mrs. Frank Watson Mrs. Susan Yeager

The Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens Jacksonville, FL The Friends of the Chase Garden Des Moines, WA Hardy Plant Society of Oregon Portland, OR Hollister House Garden Washington, CT Innisfree Garden Millbrook, NY JC Raulston Arboretum Raleigh, NC Mary M. B. Wakefield Charitable Trust Milton, MA Milton Garden Club Milton, MA Peckerwood Garden Conservation Foundation, Inc. Hempstead, TX Spoleto Festival USA Charleston, SC Sustainable Nantucket Nantucket, MA Tarrant County Master Gardener Association Fort Worth, TX Tompkins County Community Beautification Program Ithaca, NY

GARDEN HOSTS

Ms. Barbara J. Agren Ms. Linda Allard Ms. Lucille Amadie

Ms. Valerie Ansalone Ms. Susan Anthony Mrs. Brie Gluvna Arthur Mr. & Mrs. John Avlon Ms. Laura Axel Mr. Zachary G. Baker Mr. Michael Bakwin Mr. George Ball Ball Horticultural Company Mr. & Mrs. Tim Bates Ms. Linda Bauccio Mr. & Mrs. John Beavin Mr. Walter Becker Ms. Stephanie Beling Mrs. Ilona D. Bell Mr. Stuart Bell Ms. Dianne Benson Mr. Matthew Benson Mr. Craig K. Bergmann Ms. Ellen Best Mr. Peter Bevacqua & Mr. Stephen King Mr. George Biercuk Mr. & Mrs. Arnold Blair Mr. & Mrs. Frederick Bland Ms. Sandi Blaze Ms. Helen Bodian & Mr. Roger E. Alcaly Dr. Sue B. Bottigheimer Mr. & Mrs. John Boyle Ms. Elizabeth Bradham Mr. & Mrs. Doug Bratton Mr. Michael Brennan & Mr. Robert Moss Mr. & Mrs. Duncan Brine Ms. Abby Jane Brody Mrs. Jytte A. Brooks Mrs. Ann K. Bryan & Mr. Allen Bryan Mr. & Mrs. OJ Buigas

Ms. Arlene Bujese Ms. Christine Burbank Ms. Martha Burke Mr. Richard T. Button Mr. Scott Byron Glenn & Freda Calabrese Mr. Steven Carmona & Mr. Tommy Farmer* Mr. & Mrs. Ronald P. Carter Mr. & Mrs. Wayland Cato Ms. Amanda Chase Mr. & Mrs. Ralph K. Cheadle Ms. Phoebe Cole-Smith Mr. & Mrs. Robert Coleburn Mr. Andrew Collver Mr. & Mrs. Bert D. Condie III Mr. Don Conlan Ms. Ellen Cool Mr. Ruben Corpuz & Mr. Ted Van Velzen Mr. Paul Coutu & Mr. William Turner Mr. Chuck Crafts Ms. Conni Cross Mr. & Mrs. John V. Crowe Mr. Roger DeMuth Ms. Lynne B. Denton Robert & Jennifer Diamond Ms. Lorie Diaz Mr. & Mrs. Joe DiMattio Mr. &. Mrs. Michael Dingman Mr. Jim Douthit Mrs. Christine B. Doyle & Mr. John A. Doyle Mr. Richard Eagan Ms. Elizabeth Edge Dr. & Mrs. Kenneth Eisold Ms. Elizabeth Ely Ms. Alan Emmet Ms. Chris Feibusch

PARTNERING ORGANIZATIONS The Barnes Foundation Philadelphia, PA

Berkshire Botanical Garden Stockbridge, MA Charleston Horticultural Society Charleston, SC * Deceased

An energetic group of volunteers worked with us and the Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens in Jacksonville, FL, to open the Open Days season in 2015.

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Tempting sweeps of plants from Adams Fairacre Farms guide visitors to an Open Days garden in Poughkeepsie, NY.

Mr. George K. Fenn, Jr.* Ms. Judith Fetterley Ms. Andrea Filippone Mr. Chas Fitzgerald Ms. Carol Folse Ms. Kate Frey Mr. & Mrs. Eric Friberg Mr. John Funt Joel & Sarah Gagnon Mr. Bruce Gangawer Ms. Chrys Gardener Ms. Jane Garmey Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Gates Ms. Barbara J. Geller Mr. & Mrs. Jim Gilligan Ms. Susan Gisser Mr. James R. Golden & Mr. Phil Saperia Mr. Ed Goracy Mr. Jim Goss & Mr. Joe Murray Mr. & Mrs. James Gould Mr. Gregory Graves & Mr. Gary Waller Gary & Andrea Gregory Mr. John Gwynne Mr. Brad N. Hanson & Mr. Rhett Judice Ms. Sally Harris Mrs. Anne Hartman Mr. & Mrs. Charles Hasty Ms. Joyce Hawkins Mr. & Mrs. Gates Hawn Mr. Ron Hebert Steve & Carol Higgins Mr. Daniel J. Hinkley Ms. Lynne Hoefer Basil & Rilda Hone Mr. & Mrs. Ian Hooper Ms. Deborah Hornickel Mr. & Mrs. Calvin Hosmer III Mr. John Hudak & Ms. Adele Tutter Mr. G. Hughes & Ms. Betsy Abell Ms. Patricia Humphrey Mr. & Mrs. Jim Hunter Mr. Jack Hyland & Mr. Larry Wente Mr. & Mrs. Thomas Israel Mr. Mar Jennings Ms. Holly Jobe Dr. & Mrs. Eugene Johnson Mr. Patrick Johnson Mr. & Mrs. Barton Jones Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Kaminski Sherry & Dan Kasper Mrs. Belinda Kaye

Mr. Thomas E. Keim Mr. A. Walter Kendra Ms. Karen Kermani Mr. & Mrs. John Kern Ms. Margaret Kerr Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth Ketay Mr. & Mrs. Charles Kiernan Mr. & Mrs. Dan Kiser Ms. Katherine Kleitz Ms. Sara M. Knight Mrs. Virginia A. Korteweg Mr. & Mrs. Luke Kreye Mr. William Kurtis & Ms. Donna LaPietra Ms. Nancy Kyle Eddy LaDue Ms. Donna LaPietra & Mr. William Kurtis Mr. Jack R. Lamm II Mr. Matthew Larkin & Ms. Elaine Grant Mr. Jeff Law Mr. & Mrs. Benjamin F. Lenhardt, Jr. Ms. Jennifer Lewis Mr. & Mrs. Paige L’Hommedieu Mr. Timothy L. Lindsay Mr. & Mrs. Troland S. Link Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth C. Lippmann Mr. & Mrs. Ernest B. Lipscomb III Mrs. Eleanor P. Lloyd Dr. Bruce S. Lockhart & Mr. Gus Block George & Jennifer Lodge Roberta Louderback Mr. Gerard Lupacchino & Mr. Lynn Beaulieu Mr. Hitch Lyman Ms. Clara Maarse Mr. & Mrs. Arthur J. Maihack, Jr. Dr. & Mrs. Charles Mango Mr. & Mrs. Ecton R. Manning Mr. John D. Mapel Mr. Michael J. Marocco Mr. J. Bernard Marquez & Mr. Tim Fish Ms. Marcia R. Marsted & Mr. Jeffrey Marsted Mrs. Pam Mason Toni & David Mathis Mr. & Mrs. Peter W. May Mr. & Mrs. Mike McCabe Ms. Marjorie McClurg Ms. Terri McIlraith Mr. & Mrs. John McKean

Mr. & Mrs. Jim McMahon Mr. & Mrs. James McNerney Ms. Cathy McWilliams Mr. & Mrs. Edward Merrin Mr. & Mrs. James T. Metz, Jr. Mr. Cliff Miller Ms. Marion Miller Ms. Christine Mitchell Mr. Roger Mitchell Lanis & Thomas Monfried Ms. Judy A. Montoure & Mr. Dorian Sanchez Mr. Douglas Moreland Mr. Peter Mullins Ms. Alexandra Munroe Mr. Mike Munsterman Mr. & Mrs. Robert A. Murray Ms. Carol Stocker & Mr. Robert Mussey Mr. Wayne L. Myers Mr. & Mrs. John Needham Ms. Julie Newmar Mr. & Mrs. Russell B. Newton Mr. & Mrs. Buddy Nixon Mr. & Mrs. John Nonna Ms. Jill Nooney & Dr. Robert S. Munger Ms. Janet Mavec & Mr. E. Wayne Nordberg Mr. Peter Norris Ms. Ruth Oja Mr. & Mrs. Eric Olsen Dr. Pauline Nagle Olsen Mr. Eric Otto Ms. Maxine Paetro Ms. Frances Palmer Marcia & Dennis Peck Ms. Elaine H. Peterson & Mr. Richard Kahn Mr. & Mrs. Howard Phipps, Jr. Ms. Marcia C. Pierce & Mr. Peter McNaull Alice Platt Mr. Matthew Poltorak Mr. Jack Potter & Mr. David Lebe Ms. Marcia Previti Mr. & Mrs. Gordon Prewitt Mr. & Mrs. Walter Pye Mr. & Mrs. Robert R. Raimondi Mr. & Mrs. George Reardon Ms. Patty Redenbaugh Ms. Lori Riberi Mr. & Mrs. Bennett Rich Ms. Katie Ridder & Mr. Peter Pennoyer Ms. Nancy Ridenour Ms. Margaret Roach Dr. & Mrs. William J. Robb II Ms. Lucretia Robbins Mr. & Mrs. Charles Raskob Robinson Mr. & Mrs. Peter Rooney Larry Rubin Mr. & Mrs. Luke Sadler Dr. & Mrs. Carl Salsedo Mrs. Jean Sander Mr. & Mrs. Alan Sarroff Mr. Jeremy Schmidt Mr. & Mrs. Al Schmitt Ms. Susan Schmitz Mr. George E. Schoellkopf & Mr. Gerald Incandela Mr. Dennis Schrader & Mr. Bill Smith Dr. & Mrs. H. Ralph Schumacher, Jr. Ms. Sandy Scott

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Dr. & Mrs. J. Robert Seebacher Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth Seeger Ms. Caroline R. Seitz Ms. Honey Sharp & Mr. David Lippman Ms. Jeanne Simmons Ms. Sandra Simpson Ms. Linda Singer Mr. & Mrs. Ethan Skyler Mr. & Mrs. Henry Slack Ms. Nancy Solomon Mr. & Mrs. Arthur Sorensen Ms. Suzie Spence Mr. Christopher Spitzmiller Mr. & Mrs. George Staehle Mr. & Mrs. Michael Steinhardt Ms. Mary Caroline Stewart Ms. Mary Ann Stisher The Estate of Mrs. William Suhr Ms. Melissa Suhr Sue & Jon Suwinski Mr. Richard Tadler Mr. & Mrs. Simmons Tate Dean Taylor & Ronald Spell Ms. Christine E. Ten Eyck & Mr. Gary Deaver Dannye & Bob Thomas Helen Thompson & Charles Lohrmann Mr. Maurice H. Thompson Mr. Paul Tierney & Ms. Lis Braun Ms. Sandra L. Tiery Ms. Mary Tomolonius Mr. Michael Trapp Mr. & Mrs. George Trecina Mrs. Michelle Trulaske Mr. & Mrs. Ken Uhle Mr. & Mrs. Walden Valen Sander & Erin van Otterloo Ms. Carol Vance Ms. Shobha Vanchiswar & Mr. Murali Mani Mr. Scott VanderHamm Mrs. Ann Van Devort Mr. Robert J. Vigue Mr. & Mrs. Dale M. Visokey Ms. Alexandra Vorbeck Mr. Ron Wagner & Mr. Tim Van Dam Ms. Halina Walatek Michael Walek Mr. Don Walker & Mr. Paul Acario Mr. Frank Wallace Peggy Walsh Mr. & Mrs. John L. Warden Mr. Marshall Watson & Mr. Paul Sparks Mr. John Weltman & Mr. Cliff Atkins Ms. Erin Weston Ms. Deborah Whigham & Mr. Gary Ratway Ms. Shelby White Mr. Mike Wicker Ms. Bunny Williams Mr. & Mrs. Peter H. Williams Mr. & Mrs. Bobby Woolverton Mr. Peter Wooster Mr. Dean Yoder & Mr. Jonathan Grimm * Deceased

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The Garden Conservancy Post Office Box 219 Cold Spring, NY 10516 www.gardenconservancy.org

Non-Profit Organization US Postage PAID Holliston, MA Permit No. 72

Front cover: Sleepy Cat Farm, the Greenwich, CT, garden of Fred Landman and his wife, Seen Lippert, who opened their garden to our Open Days visitors and graciously hosted a Society of Fellows garden-study tour. Sleepy Cat Farm includes a diverse array of formal and informal garden areas, buildings, and follies.

Inside back cover: An expansive view from the Open Days garden of David Lebe and Jack Potter in Ghent, NY. Photo by David Lebe.

Back cover: A splendid specimen in the collection of Japanese maples at Iroki, the Open Days garden of Judy and Michael Steinhardt in Mount Kisco, NY. Photo by Marion Brenner.

Printed on recycled paper

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