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Calendar of Events Friday Night Music
Beginning in June
6:00 'til dusk
Beginning in June, join us on select Fridays in June with your family and friends for an early evening at Bridge Gardens. Bring a picnic and enjoy music by various local artists, schedule to be announced shortly.
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"Uncommon Ground" Sculpture Exhibition Opening
Friday, June 25 through
Sunday, June 27
Copernicus by
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The "Uncommon Ground" Sculpture Exhibition features the work of nine internationally recognized sculptors and will be displayed at the Gardens all summer. In celebration of the opening, the Gardens will be FREE all weekend long. See right column for more details.
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The Herb Garden
in Spring and
Early
Summer
Saturday, June 19
10:00 - 11:30
Meet Garden Manager Rick Bogusch and Horticulturalist Jeff Negron and learn a three-dimensional approach to planning and planting your herb garden. The program will conclude when Rick and Jeff guide you in creating your very own herb container garden to take home!
$20/person. Rain or shine. Program is limited to 20 attendees. Please bring your 10" patio pot - all plants and soil will be provided.
Call 631-283-3195 to register.
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An Evening of Wine and Roses
Saturday, July 17
A fundraiser for Bridge Gardens. Stay tuned for details.
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Bridge Gardens Note Cards
New to the Peconic Land Trust gift shop is a boxed
set of 12 note cards, featuring four seasonal photos of the
Gardens.
A membership to Bridge Gardens and these note cards make a
great gift! Purchase at our online
store today.
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Related pages:
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A Note From Rick
The staff at Bridge Gardens has been doing a lot of work on the privet hedge behind the herb garden in the last few weeks. It's true that sometimes things get worse before they get better. That's certainly true for the privet hedge. Early this spring, we drastically cut it back in order to renew it. Actually, we only cut back the inside half, leaving the outer half toJeff and Rick in the Rose Garden,
photo by Richard Lewin  | provide at least a hint of screening this year. It will succumb to loppers and shears in September.
We did this because years of shade, dampness, poor air circulation, and very light pruning resulted in a hedge held up by stakes and wires with much deadwood. We consulted with an Irish gardener friend who's done this many times before. He told us we'd be shocked when we were done and we are, but we are also hopeful that in 2-3 years we will have the hedge we want. You may be shocked, too, when you see it. Rest assured that on future visits, you'll see signs of life on those dead-looking trunks, and someday a beautiful new hedge with a fabulous wavy-edged top.
It's also true that good things take time. One of our big planting projects this year is located just behind the Macy's Earth Day Volunteers raking garden with new bamboo fence in background  | aforementioned privet hedge. It is a long, narrow bed along our new bamboo-accented deer fence, and it runs a hundred feet or more from the rose garden and surrounds the bamboo room. We started clearing this area last fall, removing stumps and lawn, barrowing in compost, and moving in an existing bench to provide a focus for the site and a place to rest with a perfect view of the garden house.
At present, this area, too, doesn't look like much as it is full of piles of cut privet waiting to be dragged to Mitchell Lane to be chipped. Once that is done, along with a little tree trimming, more soil and compost, I will be able to focus on the planting design, source  the plants, and get them in the ground. You can expect a mix of small trees and shrubs, both evergreen and deciduous, and large masses of unusual woodland ground covers. It will look good this year, but will be even better in seasons to come.
See you around the garden,
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"Uncommon Ground"
Sculpture Exhibition
Peconic Land Trust is teaming up with C Fine Art for a sculpture exhibition at Bridge Gardens. "Uncommon Chalis
by John Van Alstine | Ground," features the work of nine internationally recognized sculptors that will be on display from June 16 through Labor Day. Curator Cheryl Sokolow has organized a group exhibition presenting a survey of contemporary outdoor sculptures that explore the relationship between nature and art and examines our own notions of perspective with regard to our environment.
Rick and Cheryl found a wonderful balance betweenRiver Jacks by John Ruppert
 | the gardens intrinsic beauty and the sculptures' natural elegance. The works on display were expressly selected with the intentions of providing another dimension from which the visitor will view the natural environment. All of the work is organic in nature and each sculpture relates uniquely to the physical and psychological aspects of the garden. The Spiritis by Kevin Barrett
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In celebration, Bridge Gardens will be free to
visitors Friday through Sunday, June 25 through June 27. The participating
artists are: John Van Alstine,
Kevin Barrett, Jim Henderson, Win Knowlton, Joel Perlman, Carol Ross,
John Ruppert, Isobel Folb Sokolow, and Naomi Teppich. They will be at Bridge Gardens to meet the public on Saturday, June 26 from 6:00 to 8:00 pm.
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Flower of the Month: Clematis
 Adding bamboo accents to our new perimeter fence has occupied much of our time this spring, and we still see more we'd like to do in the coming months. One of the most enjoyable tasks related to this project was planting several Clematis at the base of the fence, with the hope that someday they will cover and hide it. We have planted two varieties of Clematis Montana; Clematis Texensis, Clematis Tangutica, Clematis Viticella, and Clematis Virginiana. These will be joined by many new plantings of the sweet autumn variety we all know and love. |
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Bridge Gardens Hours and Admissions |
Bridge Gardens is open to visitors from April 3 through the end of October on
Saturdays from 10am to 5pm
Sundays from Noon to 4pm.
From Memorial Day to Labor Day, Bridge Gardens will offer additional days and hours:
Wednesdays and Thursdays from Noon to 5 pm
Fridays from Noon to dusk.
All hours are subject to change, due to weather or special events. Special event closings will be announced at least two weeks prior. Children must be accompanied by adults. No pets or strollers please.
Photography is allowed.
Daily Admission: $10 for adults; $20 for a family.
Seasonal Membership: $35/Individual; $50/Family. Memberships can be purchased at our
For more information, please call 631-537-7440,
email, or visit our website.
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Bridge Gardens is a stewardship project of the Peconic Land Trust.
For information concerning visiting Bridge Gardens, call 631.537.7440 or
visit us online at www.PeconicLandTrust.org/bridge_gardens
The Peconic Land Trust conserves Long Island's working farms, natural lands, and heritage for our communities, now and in the future.
For more information concerning the Trust, call us at 631.283.3195 or visit us online at www.PeconicLandTrust.org.
A copy of
the last financial report filed with the New York State Attorney
General may be obtained by writing to: New York State Attorney
General's Charities Bureau, Attn: FOIL Officer, 120 Broadway, New York,
NY 10271 or Peconic Land Trust, PO Box 1776, Southampton, NY 11969.
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