THE THOMAS JEFFERSON FOUNDATION
invites you to the Peter J. Hatch Spring Cabinet Evening Conversation
Garden Follies: How Failures Led to Greater Perfection, from Thomas Jefferson to Henry Mitchell
featuring
Adrian Higgins
Former Garden Columnist, The Washington Post
Peter J. Hatch
Director Emeritus of Gardens and Grounds, Thomas Jefferson Foundation
Tuesday, March 26, 2024
5:30 p.m. – Reception
with hors d’oeuvres and refreshments
6:30 p.m. – Program
Montalto, overlooking Monticello
Business Casual
Parking available at the David M. Rubenstein Visitor Center
Please complete the form below to register for the
Peter J. Hatch Spring Cabinet Evening Conversation
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Questions? Please contact Monticello Events at events@monticello.org | 434.984.9821
About the Speakers
Adrian Higgins began his career in the mid-1970s as a reporter in England for East Midlands Allied Press and its flagship daily paper, The Evening Telegraph. Since the late 1980s, he has specialized in writing about gardening, landscape architecture, and related environmental areas. He joined The Washington Post in 1994.
He previously worked for shelter magazines as an editor and contributor. He has authored three garden books and contributed to several more. Higgins has wide artistic interests and sees his work and life entwined in a continual journey of creative exploration and expression. In addition to his work as a writer and horticulturist, he is a classical pianist, and studied for more than 20 years in the studio of the noted Peruvian-American pianist Myriam Avalos Teie. He has studied abstract and figurative painting at the Art League of Alexandria; poetry and creative writing at the University of Oxford's department of continuing education; and architecture and decorative arts as an active member of the Victorian Society in America.
Peter J. Hatch is a professional gardener and historian with 38 years' experience in the restoration, care, and interpretation of historic landscapes. A celebrated author of four books on the gardens of Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello, where he served as Director of Gardens and Grounds for 35 years, Hatch has lectured in 38 states on Jefferson and the history of garden plants. Presently, he gardens and botanizes from his home on Lickinghole Creek in Crozet, Virginia, travels extensively to promote his latest work, ‘A Rich Spot of Earth’: Thomas Jefferson’s Revolutionary Garden at Monticello, and consults on the installation and maintenance of both public gardens and private estate landscapes.