Join us for a tour of Brandywine Cottage and Bondsville Mill Park, led by internationally recognized garden designer, horticulturist, and author David Culp.
Brandywine Cottage is Culp's beloved two-acre Pennsylvania garden, which features a nonstop parade of color that begins with a tapestry of heirloom daffodils and hellebores in spring and ends with a jewel-like blend of Asian wildflowers at the onset of winter.
The Bondsville Mill Park is a 47-acre parcel that is being transformed into a space for passive recreation, a nature preserve, and a historic site. The park features the new and developing “Culp Clearing” garden on the site of an industrial ruin that is being turned into a beautiful public park and named in honor of Culp.
Explore these treasured Brandywine properties and get an exclusive look into their history, design, and more.
Location
Tour departs from Visitor Center Parking Lot. Trip leaves promptly as listed and runs rain or shine. Please note that this tour contains a good deal of walking and is an outdoor experience. While our pace will be slow, some areas require mildly strenuous walking. Appropriate footwear and water are recommended. Dress for all types of weather.
Instructor
David Culp
David Culp is Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Cavano’s Perennials. He is also the creator of the gardens at Brandywine Cottage in Downingtown, Pennsylvania, which are listed in the Smithsonian Institution/Archives of American Gardens. The gardens have been featured on television and numerous magazine publications. Culp is the principal of David L. Culp Designs, owner of the galanthus nursery Brandywine Snowdrops, and the developer of the Brandywine Hybrid strain of hellebores. Culp has been lecturing about gardens nationwide for over 25 years.
Culp is the author of The Layered Garden published by Timber Press, which won a Gold Medal from the Garden Writers Association at GardenComm for Best Overall Book of the Year. His new book, A Year at Brandywine Cottage: Six Seasons of Beauty, Bounty and Blooms, details how more than 30 years of creating this sensational year-round garden provides an abundance of joy, both indoors and out, whether it’s choosing plants for twelve months of interest, weaving edibles into the mix, or bringing the bounty indoors with simple arrangements and homegrown recipes.
Additional Information
Class participants will be provided with a boxed lunch.
