A 27-acre pastoral oasis in the middle of the Georgetown section of Washington, D.C., Dumbarton Oaks Park is the woodland and meadow portion of Mildred and Robert Bliss’ original 53-acre Dumbarton Oaks estate. In this video Liza Gilbert, a landscape designer and Board Co-Chair, Dumbarton Oaks Park and Lindsey Milstein, President and CEO of the Dumbarton Oaks Park Conservancy, provide insight and context about this quintessential wild garden of the Country Place Era. This is the masterwork of Beatrix Jones Farrand, a “landscape gardener,” as she called herself, and is her only remaining wild landscape. The design of the park is the result of a decades-long partnership between Farrand and her client, Mildred Bliss. After decades of neglect, the woodland garden is now being revitalized to reveal the 100-year old Farrand design and is being rediscovered by a wide array of visitors. 2021 marks the centenary year of the park, making it especially significant that the landscape remains true to Farrand’s original design intent. Additional funds and volunteer work will be necessary to protect the park as it enters its second century.
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