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An opportunity to tour a celebrated private garden and reflect on the intersection of traditional and regenerative horticulture and garden design. Led by garden and landscape designer Peter Bevacqua, who will highlight the creation of the wild “nearly native garden” and its role in their landscape. Learn how they worked with the existing flora to transform the space, and its continuing evolution. This magical garden, hidden from street view in the hamlet of Claverack, has been evolving with devotion and care for the past 30 years. This 2 ½ acre garden feels larger because of its division into many garden spaces designed with a careful eye to structure, form, and texture. One area unfolds upon the next with its own sense of individuality. Among the features are the sun garden (with topiary and architectural yew hedges), a hydrangea walk, the greenhouse herbaceous borders, and many unusual trees and shrubs. What was once a small orchard is becoming a conifer garden. A boxwood cloud hedge, inspired by the work of Jacques Wirtz, replaces an old rose border, and a border consisting primarily of shrubs and small trees meets the objective of horticultural interest while being low in maintenance. he ‘Nearly-native Garden’, with its thriving honey bee colony, adds another unique space to the mix. Garden designer Peter Bevacqua has used his governing design principles of structure, form and texture to focus here on native plants, with support from non-natives, creating a unique plant community.

Gardener and landscape designer Peter Bevacqua honed his skills studying with Christopher Lloyd and Fergus Garrett at Great Dixter, and with Helen Dillon in her garden in Dublin. He came to this career after 25 years in advertising, where he was creative director in the New York office of aiglobal ad agency. He feels fortunate to have been able to combine his background in art and design with his life-long addiction to plants. His garden has been twice in the New York Times, a featured garden in The Gardens of the Hudson Valley by Monacelli Press, in the Private Gardens of the Hudson Valley, and the soon to be released Garden Design Master Class by Rizzoli. He lives and gardens in Claverack, New York.

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