Landscape Pleasures: The Parrish Art Museum's Garden Tour, June 7 & 8

Landscape Pleasures, the Parrish Art Museum’s annual two-day horticulture event and fund-raiser will be this weekend, June 7 and 8, and will include a symposium presenting leaders in design, as well as exclusive tours of some of the most extraordinary gardens of the Hamptons.

The Saturday morning symposium, from 9am to 1pm, features landscape architect Chip Callaway, architecture critic Martin Filler, and British garden designer Arne Maynard.

On Sunday, from 10am to 3pm, four spectacular Southampton Village private gardens plus Robert Dash’s two-acre Madoo Conservancy in Sagaponack will be open to ticket holders for self-guided tours.

This year’s event, co-chaired by Lillian Cohen, Jack deLashmet, Linda Hackett Munson, and Martha McLanahan, is held in memory of Robert Dash—the internationally renowned artist, author, and avid landscape designer. Landscape Pleasures tickets cost $225, $175 for Parrish Members, and include both the symposium and garden tours.

Ticket purchasers at the Sponsor level and above ($350+) receive an invitation to a private cocktail reception on Saturday evening, June 7, at The Moraine, the breathtaking Water Mill garden and home of Ala and Ralph Isham, designed by Dash. Paul Faulkner “Chip” Callaway, owner of Callaway & Associates, has designed nearly 1,000 gardens over the past 30 years. His firm specializes in residential, hospitality, and historic garden design mostly in the Carolinas and Virginia, as well as in Nantucket, Long Island, Palm Beach and England.

All of the garden tours on Sunday, June 8, are located in Southampton Village. They will take place rain or shine, and include:

Tory Burch--One of the great estates of Southampton, this magnificent 1929 red brick Georgian house and 10-acre garden is known as Westerly.

Joan & Bernard Carl--The gardens and grounds of “Little Orchard,” an eight-acre estate on Coopers Neck Lane, boast an impressive garden lineage dating from 1913, and grand gardens in the Southampton tradition.

Perri Peltz & Eric Ruttenberg Note: Limited viewing time from 10am to 1pm--Like so many grand expanses of the American Country House Movement, the original 1892 acreage of “Claverack” was parceled off over the years. Recognizing the honesty and scale of a functional structure, the owners chose to marry the original outbuildings to one another.

Margaret and R. Peter Sullivan--Situated on the lovely tree-lined Wyandanch Lane, the newly constructed Palladian Villa features an American Style Garden designed by Lear + Mahoney Landscape Associates. The landscape references modern interpretations of classical garden thinking.

Landscape Pleasures is made possible by the generous support of Ala and Ralph Isham, and Lillian and Joel Cohen. Additional support has been provided by Mrs. Mildred Brinn; deLashmet & Associates; LaGuardia Design, Landscape Architects; MARDERS; and Linda and Russell Munson. Hamptons Cottages & Gardens is the media sponsor of Landscape Pleasures.