Rites of Spring Music Festival:
New Ways of Looking at Old Things
Saturday, July 5th, Doors Open 5:00 pm, Concert 6:00 pm. Tickets $40 – $75.
Featuring Overton Quartet
Monica Davis, violin / Yezu Woo, violin
Angela Pickett, viola / Laura Metcalf, cello
Music Program
Gabriela Smith, Carrot Revolution
Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, String Quartet no.1 “Calvary”
Shanan Estreicher, I Laughed So Hard I Cried
Trevor Weston, Juba
Eleonor Alberga, String Quartet no. 2
LGF Summer Benefit
A Weekend With Fergus Garrett
Friday, July 11 – Sunday, July 13
Saturday Lecture Only Ticket: $75 (Includes access to Great Dixter Biodiversity Audit and Planting Styles Lecture at Mattituck High School)
Saturday All Day Ticket: $250 (Includes access to Great Dixter Biodiversity Audit Lecture, self guided garden tours, “Dixter” style border demonstration and wine reception)
Benefit Sponsor Ticket: $750 (Includes access to all events during A Weekend with Fergus: Friday cocktail reception, garden stroll, and dinner with Fergus Garrett at the Landcraft Garden Foundation; biodiversity lecture; self-guided garden tours; “Dixter”-style border demonstration; wine reception; and biodiversity discussion with light refreshments)
Join us for a special weekend with Fergus Garrett, Chief Executive and Head Gardener at Great Dixter—the longtime family home of Christopher Lloyd in East Sussex, UK. Great Dixter is famously known as one of the most influential and celebrated gardens in the world. Since his arrival in 1993, Fergus worked closely with Christopher Lloyd to transform Great Dixter into the garden laboratory that it is today, where new ideas are tested, generations of horticulturists are trained, and groundbreaking research is carried out.
Today, the Great Dixter property is filled with wildflower meadows; a 150-foot border of boldly colorful flowering shrubs, perennials and bulbs; a kitchen garden; the Sunk Garden (a floral-filled courtyard centered on an octagonal pond); the Old Rose Garden (now filled with rare and exotic plants); and the Peacock Garden, where eighteen giant yew topiary birds preside over peaceful thalictrums, asters, teasels and grasses.
This immersive event at Landcraft Garden Foundation offers a rare opportunity to learn directly from Fergus through lectures, garden tours, and hands-on demonstrations.
Schedule of Events
Friday July 11th, 2025
5:00pm – Cocktail reception and garden stroll at the Landcraft Garden Foundation
7:00pm – Dinner in the garden
*Cocktail reception and dinner catered by Fyr & Salt
Saturday July 12th, 2025
10:00am – 12:00pm – Great Dixter Biodiversity Audit and Planting Styles Lecture at Mattituck High School
12:00pm – 4:00pm – Lunch on your own followed by self guided tours of three local private gardens (map to gardens provided via email prior to Saturday morning lecture)
4:30pm -6:30pm – “Dixter” style border demonstration followed by wine reception at the Landcraft Garden Foundation
Sunday July 13th, 2025
10:00am – 12:00pm – Great Dixter Biodiversity Audit discussion with light refreshments served at the Landcraft Garden Foundation
AGE: Adult audiences
WEATHER: Rain or Shine
SPECIAL NOTES: Please dress appropriately for events and workshops held outdoors: comfortable shoes and socks, wide brimmed hats, sunscreen, insect repellant and water are recommended. To be a source of healthy insects for our birds and other insect-feeding wildlife, we do not use insecticides in the gardens.
Saturday, August 30th, Doors Open at 6:00 pm, Dance Performance at 7:00 pm
Sunday, August 31st, Doors Open at 10:00 am, Family Workshop at 10:30 am
Details to come.
Arts events and workshops at Landcraft Garden Foundation are made possible by a grant from the New York State Council on the Arts with support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
Stay tuned for more events and workshops, including a Fergus Garrett Weekend and a Movie in the Garden this summer.
