(T-1) Garden Perspectives: A Tour of Willowwood Arboretum and Bamboo Brook

Wednesday, 1:00 - 4:30 pm

Willowwood Arboretum

About this Session

Step into the living legacy of American landscape design with a behind the scenes tour featuring the historic gardens at Willowwood Arboretum and Bamboo Brook Outdoor Education Center. This guided experience invites garden enthusiasts, landscape professionals, historians, and preservation professionals to look beyond the building and explore two of New Jersey’s most significant horticultural treasures. Participants will get a behind-the-scenes look at how new scholarship is changing the narrative and context of Willowwood Arboretum, New Jersey’s most comprehensive and longest continually operating Arboretum, and explore the preserved historic gardens of pioneering landscape architect Martha Brookes Hutcheson. As one of the first women to practice landscape architecture professionally in the United States, Hutcheson left an enduring mark on early 20th-century garden design. The tour will include walking on grass and unpaved/uneven surfaces along an approximately 2-mile route.

Presented by

Margaret M. Hickey, AIA

Margaret M. Hickey, AIA, serves as Principal Historic Preservation Specialist at Connolly & Hickey Historical Architects, an architecture firm based in Cranford, New Jersey. She holds a Bachelor of Architecture from the New Jersey Institute of Technology and a Master...

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