Slated for 3 p.m., Jan. 15, the lecture at the Society of the Four Arts will feature Troy Scott Smith, head gardener of Sissinghurst Castle Garden.
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Sissinghurst Castle Garden’s head gardener since 2013, Troy Scott Smith has vied to preserve its original beauty while ensuring its flora can withstand the temperatures spurred by climate change.Scott Smith will speak at 3 p.m. Jan. 15 about his work at the garden during a program at The Society of the Four Arts in Palm Beach.Open to the public, the program is sponsored by the Garden Club of Palm Beach. General admission is $20.
Gardener Troy Scott Smith will discuss the challenges and intricacies of caring for one of England’s most renowned gardens, Sissinghurst Castle Garden, at a lecture sponsored by the Garden Club of Palm Beach.
Slated for 3 p.m., Jan. 15, at the Society of the Four Arts’ Gubelmann Auditorium, the lecture will see Scott Smith discuss the journey that in 2013 led him to be named head gardener for the 5-acre historic site in Kent, regarded by many as the prime example of 20th-century English country garden, accord to a release.
Created by husband-and-wife writers Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson in the 1930s, Sissinghurst has achieved its fame, in part, because it’s an early example of a landscape designed around “garden rooms” — secluded or partly enclosed spaces that serve as their own distinctive areas.
Those “rooms” include the white garden, an area planted with sea of white flowers — delphiniums, lilies, and foxgloves, for example — that sprout during the summer. There’s also the historic site’s famed collection of old roses, which were of special interest to Sackville-West during the garden’s creation.
In 1967, The National Trust, a longstanding United Kingdom-based heritage and nature conservation organization, assumed ownership of the garden. The historic site welcomes tens of thousands of visitors each year, according to the organization.
Since taking over as head gardener, Scott Smith says he has vied to celebrate the founding vision of the garden’s creators, while also adopting the grounds to England’s changing environment.
That’s included developing hardier plant varieties, according to a report from the Financial Times.
Admission is $20 for the general public, and reservations are suggested. For more information, visit FourArts.org or call 561-655-7226.
Diego Diaz Lasa is a journalist at the Palm Beach Daily News, part of the USA TODAY Florida Network. You can reach him at dlasa@pbdailynews.com.
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