An Afternoon at Sleepy Cat Farm with Charles J. Stick to Celebrate His New Book

Sleepy Cat Farm

Tue, Oct 29, 2024
4:00 PM- 6:00 PM

Please join the Garden Conservancy and Monacelli Press for an exclusive presentation, book signing, and reception celebrating the launch of Charles J. Stick and his Gardens. 

Charles J. Stick and his Gardens is a fascinating biographical monograph of Charles J. Stick, renowned Virginia-based landscape architect celebrated for his historically and culturally based gardens filled with luxuriant blooms. This new book is the first to explore and bring together four major estates by Stick—Crab Tree Farm on the North Shore of Chicago, Illinois; Mount Sharon near Charlottesville, Virginia; Waverley, in Somerset, Virginia; and of course Sleepy Cat Farm in Greenwich, Connecticut—offering new insights into the design process and the intimacy of his client relationships. 

Sleepy Cat Farm is a spectacular garden—a thirteen-acre multi-faceted experience including a stroll garden through a woodland with its own grotto, a meadow with a sacred grove, a wetland with an elevated spirit walk through an iris garden, and several formal garden rooms with reflecting pools and koi ponds—and this event offers the special opportunity to hear directly from its visionary creators. Following the conversation will be a celebratory reception where light refreshments and bites will be served.

Purchase a copy of the book as part of your ticket to receive an exclusive Garden Conservancy discount. Additional copies will be available for purchase at full price at the event

Location
Sleepy Cat Farm
Greenwich, CT 

Date and time
Tuesday, October 29
4 p.m. to 6 p.m. 

Lecture is at 4 p.m. followed by a book signing and reception at 5 p.m

Registration
$35 for members of the Garden Conservancy
$40 for General Admission

Registration and Book 
$75 for members of the Garden Conservancy (includes book at 33% discount!)
$80 for General Admission (includes book at 33% discount!)

Tickets can also be purchased by phone: 845.424.6500

About the Speaker: 

Charles J. Stick, renowned Virginia-based landscape architect

Charles Stick earned his master’s degree in landscape architecture at the University of Virginia School of Architecture, where he studied the classical and traditional principles of landscape architecture that today form the core of the art and craft of garden making in the United States. The work of his firm, Charles J. Stick, Inc., while founded upon European landscape gardening theories, is decidedly American and reflects an understanding of American circumstances and attitudes. Charles has made his focus the creation of gardens on a human scale that give pleasure from their design and the synthesis of the useful with the enjoyable. He believes wholeheartedly that “order in itself provides a fair amount of pleasure to the spirit” and his work mirrors this sentiment.

Incorporating elements of both formal and naturalistic garden styles, Charles blends the architectural with the painterly, to create harmoniously balanced garden plans that are practical and pleasing. Stick approaches garden making from an architectural perspective; the integration of house and garden being essential to the overall composition. It is this emphasis on the garden as an extension of the architecture that makes the work of Charles J. Stick, Inc. unique in the world of garden making.