Darien Library invites history, art, literature, and gardening aficionados alike to visit the gardens of the greats. Some of the most beloved painters, sculptors, and authors were inspired by the gardens they created. Author Jana Milbocker with lead a virtual tour of the private havens of Edith Wharton, Julian Alden Weir, Childe Hassam, Daniel Chester French, Emily Dickinson, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Celia Thaxter, and others.
Register for this Tuesday, February 23 at 10 a.m. online event at Darien Library’s website at darienlibrary.org/event/4823.
Jana Milbocker is a garden designer, speaker, and author. She combines horticulture, design, and travel tips to educate, inspire and delight both new and seasoned gardeners. Jana loves to visit gardens and historic sites in the U.S. and abroad, and share her trips through her books, photos and blog.
She published The Garden Tourist: 120 Destination Gardens and Nurseries in the Northeast in 2018, and The Garden Tourist’s New England in 2020. She has lectured at flower shows in Massachusetts, Connecticut, Maine, New York, and New Jersey, as well as a multitude of horticultural societies, garden clubs, and libraries in the Northeast.
She is owner of Enchanted Gardens, a landscape design firm in the Boston area. She is past president of the Holliston Garden Club, and active in the Garden Club Federation of Mass., Massachusetts Horticultural Society, and GardenComm International.