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Garden and Landscape Symposium | Fort Ticonderoga | April 5

Saturday, April 5, 2025
8:00 AM 4:00 PM

Fort Ticonderoga 102 Fort Ti Road Ticonderoga, NY, 12883 United States (map)

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Thirteenth Annual Garden & Landscape Symposium

The King’s Garden at Fort Ticonderoga presents strategies for improving your garden.

The King's Garden at Fort Ticonderoga hosts its annual garden and landscape symposium in April 2025. — The King’s Garden at Fort Ticonderoga.

The King’s Garden at Fort Ticonderoga will host its Thirteenth Annual Garden & Landscape Symposium on Saturday, April 5, 2025. This educational event provides practical strategies for enhancing and improving your garden and landscape.

This event is designed for everyone, from experienced gardeners to those just getting started. Attendees will gain helpful insights from garden experts who live and garden in northern climates.

Those unable to attend Ticonderoga in person can sign up to participate online through Fort Ticonderoga’s Center for Digital History using ZOOM.

Valuable gardening workshops and presentations.

The 2025 Garden & Landscape Symposium includes a day full of insights and instruction. Among the sessions are:

The King's Garden at Fort Ticonderoga — The King’s Garden at Fort Ticonderoga.

9 am | Welcome — Fort Ticonderoga’s Horticulturist-in-Residence Ann Hazelrigg briefly reviews the challenges gardeners faced in 2024.

9:20 to 10:20 am | Inspired Garden Design Lessons from Magnificent Gardens and Gardeners — Stunning gardens will be the classroom for emphasizing striking design essentials that elevate gardens from ordinary to sublime, regardless of the hardiness zone or sunlight conditions. Kerry Ann Mendez, an award-winning garden educator, author, and design consultant, will act as a teacher.

10:30 to 11:30 am | Hill-Stead: A Country Place Estate—Melanie Bourbeau discusses the evolution of the landscape of Hill-Stead Museum, once the private estate of a collector of French Impressionist paintings, located in Farmington, Connecticut.

Ms. Bourbeau is the Senior Curator of the 1901 historic house, which has open as a museum since 1947.

11:45 am to 12:30 pm | Lunch — Included in the registration fee.

Heirloom produce discussion at Fort Ticonderoga's gardening symposium. — Fresh from the garden.

12:30 to 12:40 pm | What to Expect in 2025—Fort Ticonderoga’s Horticulturist-in-Residence Ann Hazelrigg shares what to expect in the 2025 growing season.

12:40 to 1:40 pm | Living History and Heirloom Produce: Researching and Sourcing Seasonal and Historically Accurate Food Items—Sara Evenson, a food historian, will explore how produce common in the eighteenth-century differs from what is common in twenty-first-century gardens and kitchens.

1:50 to 2:50 pm | The Arnold Arboretum—a place for everyone to learn about plants — Rodney Eason, Director of Horticulture & Landscape at the Arnold Arboretum at Harvard University, provides an overview of how a vision that started 152 years ago has manifested into a beloved place for all people. The Arnold Arboretum is Harvard University’s museum of trees and a key Boston City Park within the Olmsted-designed Emerald Necklace.

3 to 4 pm | How to Love a Forest — What is a forest, why are forests important, and what does it mean to care for them? Ethan Tapper, a forester, digital creator, and author, gives a presentation inviting you to reimagine forests and ecosystems and our relationship with them.

For more information and to register online, visit Fort Ticonderoga’s website.