Garden Masters: “Sleepy Cat Farm: A Gardener’s Journey” book launch - SOLD OUT
Sat, Oct 23, 2021
2:00 PM- 4:00 PM
Join the Garden Conservancy for an exclusive conversation and book signing celebrating the launch of Sleepy Cat Farm: A Gardener’s Journey (Monacelli, October 19, 2021) with Sleepy Cat Farm owner Fred Landman and landscape architect Charles J. Stick. Guests will have the opportunity to tour this spectacular garden—a thirteen-acre multi-faceted experience including a stroll garden through a woodland with its own grotto, a meadow with a sacred grove, a wetland with an elevated spirit walk through an iris garden, and several formal garden rooms with reflecting pools and koi ponds—and hear from its visionary creators. Light refreshments will be served and all guests will receive a personally signed copy of the newly released book!
This book launch is presented by the Garden Conservancy in partnership with Phaidon and Monacelli.
DATE AND TIME
Saturday, October 23, 2021
2 to 4 p.m.
LOCATION
Sleepy Cat Farm, Greenwich, CT
Address and parking directions will be shared with guests before the event.
PLEASE NOTE: This event is sold out. If you are interested in having your name added to a waiting list, please contact the Garden Conservancy by telephone 845.424.6500, M-F, 9-5 Eastern.
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Fred Landman, owner and creator of Sleepy Cat Farm, longtime Garden Conservancy Open Days host, and member of the Garden Conservancy board of directors
Fred Landman resides at Sleepy Cat Farm in Greenwich, CT, with his wife, Seen Lippert. After retirement from the business world, Fred went from a weekend gardener to a full-time gardener. Over the past 20 years, his garden has evolved from a quaint suburban backyard to a 13-acre multi-faceted, lavish estate featuring an abundance of garden experiences—formal boxwood and undulating hornbeam hedges, dense woodland, reflecting pools, arbors and follies—and a ferme ornée offering organic produce to the community. Seen, a professional chef who spent more than a decade at Chez Panisse in Berkeley, CA, stays close to the culinary world and plans the extensive planting of the vegetable gardens and is the beneficiary of the fruit orchard. Sleepy Cat Farm operates as a foundation and it is open to groups by appointment. Read more at sleepycatfarm.com.
Charles J. Stick, renowned Virgina-based landscape architect
Charles Stick earned his master’s degree in landscape architecture at the University of Virginia School of Architecture, where he studied the classical and traditional principles of landscape architecture that today form the core of the art and craft of garden making in the United States. The work of his firm, Charles J. Stick, Inc., while founded upon European landscape gardening theories, is decidedly American and reflects an understanding of American circumstances and attitudes. Charles has made his focus the creation of gardens on a human scale that give pleasure from their design and the synthesis of the useful with the enjoyable. He believes wholeheartedly that “order in itself provides a fair amount of pleasure to the spirit” and his work mirrors this sentiment.
Incorporating elements of both formal and naturalistic garden styles, Charles blends the architectural with the painterly, to create harmoniously balanced garden plans that are practical and pleasing. Stick approaches garden making from an architectural perspective; the integration of house and garden being essential to the overall composition. It is this emphasis on the garden as an extension of the architecture that makes the work of Charles J. Stick, Inc. unique in the world of garden making. Read more at cjstick.com.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Text by Caroline Seebohm; photographs by Curtice Taylor; introduction by Ken Druse
Sleepy Cat Farm: A Gardener’s Journey is a Monacelli Press title. Participants at the October 23 book launch will receive a personally signed copy.
The book is also available for pre-orders and will ship starting October 19, 2021. Only available in North America.