Fall Luncheon

The annual Fall Luncheon is always one of The Hort’s most visible and well-attended special events, and a popular tradition in New York’s community of cultural supporters. Every year we honor influential individuals in the fields of gardening, landscaping and design.

Honoring
Ethne Clarke
Elizabeth Barlow Rogers
Thomas Woltz

Tuesday, October 25, 2011
The Metropolitan Club
One East 60th Street

For more information regarding this event, please email schin@thehort.org

Elizabeth Barlow Rogers is the president of the Foundation for Landscape Studies. In 1979 she was appointed the first Central Park administrator and was instrumental in the founding of the Central Park Conservancy in 1980. She served as the Conservancy’s president until 1996. Following the publication of her survey Landscape Design: A Cultural and Architectural History in 2001, she initiated the curriculum in Garden History and Landscape Studies at the Bard Graduate Center. Her most recent book, Writing the Garden: A Literary Conversation Across Two Centuries, was published this fall by the Foundation for Landscape Studies and The New York Society Library in association with David R. Godine, Publisher.

Ms. Rogers currently serves as a life trustee of the Central Park Conservancy and is a member of the boards of The Battery Conservancy, the Library of American Landscape History, and the Regional Plan Association. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a member of the advisory board of the National Association of Olmsted Parks, and an honorary member of the American Society of Landscape Architects.  She has received numerous awards, including the Rockefeller Foundation’s 2010 Jane Jacobs Medal for lifetime achievement.

Ethne Clarke is an internationally recognized garden journalist, lecturer, and author of a number of best-selling books on practical gardening, design, and landscape history, including The Scented Garden (with Rosemary Verey), English Country Gardens, Herb Garden Design, The Gardens of Tuscany, Autumn Gardens, and the literary-award-winning Art of the Kitchen Garden. Her book, Hidcote: the Making of a Garden, first published in 1996, was recently published in a new edition by W.W. Norton. She is finishing work on her next book, a biography of the English architect, Cecil Pinsent.

Mrs. Clarke is currently the Editor in Chief of Organic Gardening. Charged in 2009 with revitalizing the magazine, her redesign and editorial repositioning has already received several awards, including the prestigious “Best Magazine Redesign” in 2010 from min’s Editorial and Design Awards. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of The Horticultural Society of New York and the Board of Directors of the Rodale Institute.

Thomas Woltz is a principal and co-owner of Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects. He holds master’s degrees in Architecture and Landscape Architecture from the University of Virginia, where he has taught for 14 years. Mr. Woltz recently developed the Conservation Agriculture Studio around a family of projects that employ the sensibilities of contemporary landscape architecture to integrate sustainable agriculture with best management practices for conservation of wildlife and natural resources.

Mr. Woltz has led designs of a broad range of public and private projects in the United States and abroad, including The Peggy Guggenheim Sculpture Garden in Venice, Italy. This past year, the firm received awards from the American Society of Landscape Architects for multiple projects, including the Carnegie Hill House in New York City.  He currently serves on the Board of Directors of The Cultural Landscape Foundation.