2005 Southern Gardens Symposium Program
Southerners experience the landscape on a deep emotional level.
The gardens, fields, homesteads, and campuses of their lives
become a part of who and what they are. The landscape provides
comfort, companionship and definition, and a sense of permanence
that is nurturing to the soul. Such nurturing is in turn sustained through
caring, growing, and sharing plants, flowers, and shrubs.
Southern gardeners love nothing better than to explore others' gardens in pursuit
of discovering something new - a new plant, a new arrangement, a new
way of doing something. The Center for the Study of Southern Culture, University
Museums, and the Division of Outreach and Continuing Education at the
University of Mississippi have partnered to bring gardeners across Mississippi the
Southern Gardens Symposium, a program comprised of garden tours and interesting -
and often entertaining - sessions.
We hope that you will join us for a garden tea party at Rowan Oak, tours of gardens
on the Ole Miss campus and Holly Springs, a trip to Strawberry Plains, and presentations
by our featured speakers. Participants can also look forward to visits
with Jeff McManus, Director of Landscape Services at Ole Miss; Jack Davis
Brown, owner of The Garden Center in Oxford and master gardener; and other
area experts; and a take-home gardening journal with as many tips, ideas, gadgets,
and arrangements as we can squeeze between its pages. There's more...
but you'll have to come to Oxford to get all the dirt!
Agenda
| FRIDAY |
| 9-10 a.m. |
Registration,
Yerby Center |
| 10:00 a.m. |
Planning Oxford and Ole Miss:
A Lecture on Landscape and
Architecture
Tom Dewey
Guided Tour of University
of Mississippi Gardens
Jeff McManus |
| Noon |
Formal Southern Gardens
James R. Cothran
Boxed Lunch at University
Museums* |
| 1:30 p.m. |
Vernacular Southern Gardens
Felder Rushing |
| 3 p.m. |
Reconstructing Historic Gardens:
Place and Memory
Kevin Risk |
| 4:30 p.m. |
Rowan Oak Garden Tea Party
Tour of Rowan Oak
Reconstruction Project
Ed Blake |
| SATURDAY |
| 9 a.m. |
Leave for tour of Holly Springs |
| 10 a.m. |
Hugh Craft House
and Gardens Tour
Chelius Carter, homeowner |
| 10:45 a.m. |
A Glance at the Future:
Holly Springs Gardens in Development
Kristin Lamberson |
| 11:15 a.m. |
Walter Place Historic Home
and Garden Tour
Ed Blake |
| 12:15 p.m. |
Lunch at the City Cafe* |
| 1:30 p.m. |
Plantation to Preserve:
An Afternoon at Strawberry Plains Audubon Center
Vision and History of a Nature Preserve
Madge Lindsay
Zen and the Art of the Master Plan
Ed Blake
From Cotton to Conservation
Chad Pope
Living Gardens:
The New Garden Paradigm
Kristin Lamberson
House Tour
Madge Lindsay |
| 4 p.m. |
Return to Oxford |
*Lunches may be purchased for additional fees.
Fees
The fee for this conference is $85.
No refunds after April 10.
Optional lunch purchases: $10 boxed lunch on
Friday at University Museums, $12 cafe lunch
on Saturday in Holly Springs.
For more information, please contact:
Mary Beth Lasseter
Office of Outreach
Center for the Study of Southern Culture
P.O. Box 1848 - Barnard Observatory
University, MS 38677
662.816.2055
marybeth@olemiss.edu |
