While you are in Highlands enjoying Mountains in Bloom, please consider participating in the following events designed to coordinate with the garden festival:

"Heroes of Horticulture" Traveling Exhibition from the George Eastman House
At The Bascom (presenter and beneficiary of Mountains in Bloom) July 8 to September 5, 2010

During Mountains in Bloom, The Bascom will showcase a special exhibition of 24 large-format photographs featuring special places in America.  The photographs will be on loan from the George Eastman House in Rochester, NY, one of this nation's most important repositories of photography, and also from The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF) in Washington, DC.

These sites have been captured on film by some of our greatest photographers.  Some of the landscapes and gardens featured in these images are hundreds of years old.  One photograph will focus on the horse chestnut tree that shaded suffragist Susan B. Anthony in the late 19th century; another is of the tree peony specimens at Linwood Gardens in upstate New York; another is the live oak tree allee in Houston, and yet another is Charleston's angel Southern live oak, a majestic living legacy from the antebellum South. These images are among TCLF’s 2007 designations for significant landscapes at risk of being lost.

To bring attention to these often-overlooked treasures and to the efforts to preserve them, George Eastman House, in conjunction with TCLF, has commissioned 12 celebrated photographers to make a visual interpretation of each of the twelve sites. The resulting images have been organized into a traveling exhibition called Heroes of Horticulture. The exhibition includes 24 images by photographers Mark Klett, John Pfahl, Eli Reed, Louviere+Vanessa, John Divola, Eric Baden, Jodean Bifoss, George Blakely, Roger Bruce, Matthew Keefe, Fredrik Marsh, and James Via. The beauty of these images will appeal to the general public, and the intent of project will have great meaning to professional garden historians and everyone interested in preservation.

Treasures of Private Collections
At The Bascom (presenter and beneficiary of Mountains in Bloom) June 5 to August 1, 2010

Patrick Dougherty: Large-Scale Outdoor Sculpture
At The Bascom (presenter and beneficiary of Mountains in Bloom) beginning June 2010

"Garden Tour" Exhibition
At Summit One Gallery July 10 to August 3, 2010

Thanks to the generosity of gallery owner Mary Adair Leslie, Summit One Gallery is hosting an exhibition in conjunction with Mountains in Bloom to celebrate the beautiful gardens of Highlands. Summit One will donate 10% of sales from the exhibition to The Bascom, nonprofit center for the visual arts that is presenter and beneficiary of Mountains in Bloom.

For more information about activities in Highlands during Mountains in Bloom,
click here to visit the Highlands Chamber of Commerce website
or call them at 828.526.2112.