The Madoo Conservancy will be hosting their annual winter lectures matching landscape architects and designers with the photographers who shoot their work. In conversation the designers will share the aims of their designs and the photographers will explain their techniques to best capture these designed environments. Guests will be treated to real behind-the-scenes look at garden photo shoots with tips on garden design and photography. Each lecture is followed by a reception in the historic red living room with Bob Dash’s famous Bloody Marys!

March 3 Abby Clough Lawless, Founder, Farm Landscape Design with Photographer Tria Giovan
March 24 Anna and Emilia DeMauro, Founders, DeMauro + DeMauro with Photographer Doug Young
April 7 Justin Quinn, Principal, James Doyle Design Associates with Photographer Neil Landino Jr.

$25.00 per lecture, discount for Madoo members
$60.00 All 3 lectures
Order tickets HERE
Special thanks to Sagaponack Distillery

Martin Architechts, Bridgehampton
Landscape: DeMauro + DeMauro
Photograph by Doug Young
Madoo in Manhattan, Tuesday, March 19
Madoo home

Cassian Schmidt:
Nature as an Ecological Palette
Introduction by James Golden
At a private club in New York City
Lecture | 6:30 pm
Cocktail Reception | 7:30 pm

Addressing climate change is one of the most pressing needs in the horticultural world today. As one of the global leaders in this research Cassian Schmidt will discuss the ecological and aesthetic potential of native and non-native dry habitat plant communities from the North American prairie as well as Eastern European steppe vegetation and the Mediterranean shrub steppe “garrigue.’’ The increased use of plants from these drier areas in beautiful and resilient urban environments and residential gardens is a feature of Cassian’s garden design. Cassian will demonstrate that with modifications and enhancements for aesthetic and practical demands, natural models can provide a great palette for planting design.

Tickets
$150 (Madoo members get 10% off; use your member code)
$350 host committee (includes dinner with Cassian Schmidt after the reception, and your name in all printed event materials)
Order tickets HERE
For sponsorship opportunities please contact info@madoo.org.

Host Committee:
John Danzer
Judith Garson
John Hill
Victoria Munroe
Madeline Weinrib
(List in formation)

Cassian Schmidt is a professor for planting design at the department of landscape architecture at Geisenheim University since 2010 and a professor of planting design at the Technical University Ostwestfalen-Lippe since 2024. For 25 years, from 1998 until 2023, Cassian was the director of Hermannshof Garden, a privately owned and internationally renowned trial garden for habitat based naturalistic perennial plantings at Weinheim in South-Western Germany. Schmidt’s long-term research at Hermannshof Garden has focused on the “New German Style” of planting, using stress-tolerant natural plant communities (with emphasis on dry North American prairie, dry Eastern European steppe and native dry grassland vegetation) as models for new sustainable plant combinations for the urban environment.

With over 35 years of experience as a professional horticulturalist Cassian also works as an planting designer and consultant in private and public projects, has worked as author of many articles and is an internationally renowned lecturer. Schmidt received his diploma in landscape architecture at Munich Technical University at Weihenstephan (Germany) in 1996 and a master in horticulture in 1990.