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Acclaimed garden author Paula Deitz will speak about "A Garden Writer's Journey" at Madoo Conservancy in Sagaponack on Sunday, February 26, at noon.

Acclaimed garden author Paula Deitz will speak about "A Garden Writer's Journey" at Madoo Conservancy in Sagaponack on Sunday, February 26, at noon.

authorDawn Watson on Feb 20, 2012

The Madoo Conservancy’s winter lecture series kicks off on Sunday, February 26, with “A Garden Writer’s Journey” by Paula Deitz.

The series continues on March 11 with “Gertrude Jekyll and the Country House” by Judith B. Tankard and culminates on March 25 with “The History of Gardens & Photography” by Leslie Rose Close.

Each of the lectures will be held at Madoo’s winter house studio in Sagaponack. Refreshments will follow each talk, and Ms. Deitz and Ms. Tankard will sign copies of their books after their individual speaking engagements.

Ms. Deitz is the founding editor of The Hudson Review, a quarterly magazine of literature and the arts. She has spent more than 30 years writing about gardens and the people who tend them. Her extensive travels, from the waterways of Kyoto to Manhattan’s Central Park, are the basis for this lecture.

Ms. Tankard, a landscape historian, author and preservationist, has written eight illustrated books on landscape history, including “Gardens of the Arts and Crafts Movement” and “Beatrix Farrand: Private Gardens, Public Landscapes.” She writes for Hortus, Country Life and other publications. Her discussion on “Gertude Jekyll and the Country House Garden,” from the archives of Country Life, will focus on Ms. Jekyll’s gardens and her legendary theories on color, planting and design.

Ms. Close, a painter and sculptor-turned-gardener, will speak on the history of garden photography. The Bridgehampton-based gardener created a program in American landscape history at Wave Hill and co-founded the Catalog of Landscape Records there, which is now housed at the New York Botanical Garden.

All lectures start at noon in the winter house studio at Madoo Conservancy in Sagaponack. Reservations are suggested for each of the talks, as seating is limited. Admission is $30, or $20 for Madoo members. For additional information or reservations, call 537-8200, email info@madoo.org or visit madoo.org.

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