LongHouse Reserve Celebrates Creativity in Landscape Design

The LongHouse Reserve will hold its annual Landscape Awards Lecture and Luncheon on Saturday, starting at 10 a.m. at Hoie Hall at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in East Hampton with lectures by Deborah Nevins and Kris Jarantoski. 

Ms. Nevins will receive the Landscape Award for her garden designs in the United States and abroad. Mr. Jarantoski will take home the Garden Direction Award for his work as the director of the Chicago Botanic Garden.

Following the lectures, the event will move to the LongHouse Reserve for the awards ceremony and lunch. Other honorees are Sunbrella, known for its outdoor fabrics, which will receive the venue’s first Design Award from Caroline Baumann, the director of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, and Garden Design magazine, which was given the Award for Publication, to be presented by Eric Groft of Oehme van Sweden.

Lunch and a tour of the LongHouse gardens with Alex Feleppa, the horticulturalist there, will follow the awards presentation. Tickets to the lectures only are $50, $35 for members. Tickets for the entire event start at $300, $250 for members.