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LongHouse Landscape Awards Will Be Held Saturday

LongHouse Reserve will be one of the settings for its landscape awards on Saturday.
LongHouse Reserve will be one of the settings for its landscape awards on Saturday.
Dawn Watson
At Hoie Hall of St. Luke’s Episcopal Church and the LongHouse Reserve
By
Star Staff

The LongHouse Reserve in East Hampton will honor Dan Hinkley and Elizabeth Scholtz at its annual Landscape Awards Luncheon on Saturday. The day’s events will begin at 10:30 a.m. at Hoie Hall of St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in East Hampton Village, where Mr. Hinkley, a horticulturalist, garden writer, and nurseryman, will give a lecture titled “In Search of Good Plants.” He will be introduced by Martha Stewart.

The gardens at LongHouse will open at 11:30 a.m., lunch will follow at noon, and the awards presentation will take place at 1 p.m. Ms. Scholtz, who was a director of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, its first vice president, and is now director emeritus, will receive the Garden Leadership award from Scot Medbury, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden’s president. Jamaica Kincaid, a novelist, gardener, and garden writer, will present Mr. Hinkley with the LongHouse Landscape award.

Tickets, which can be purchased at the LongHouse website, start at $250. Tickets to the Hoie Hall lecture only are priced at $75, $50 for members.

 

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