Landscape Pleasures Heads North

The Parrish Art Museum's annual garden tour and design symposium will take place next weekend, beginning Sept. 11, with self-guided tours of gardens on the North Fork from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. The symposium follows on Sept. 12 from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
    
The tour participants this year are the Landcraft Garden Foundation, Winds Way Farm, the garden of Conni Cross, and the garden of Ugo Rondinone. Information and maps will be supplied following registration for the tour.
    
The symposium will offer talks by Patrick Cullina and Deborah Nevins. Mr. Cullina is a horticulturist, landscape designer, photographer, lecturer, and organizational consultant. He focuses on integrating the natural and the built environment. Ms. Nevins and her firm have worked domestically and internationally on projects such as the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center in Athens and in collaboration with the Renzo Piano Building Workshop, in addition to her residential work. Her designs emphasize the use of indigenous plantings that are ecologically sound and protective of wetlands and other fragile areas of Long Island, New England, and the West.
    
A cocktail party at Audrey and Martin Gruss's Southampton property Fairwind will take place on Saturday from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. for those who purchase tickets at the benefit committee and sponsorship level, which starts at $400. The regular symposium and tour tickets are $250 or $200 for Parrish members. The museum's Covid guidelines are on its website, where tickets can also be purchased.