How do patrons and designers work together? What makes for a great, enduring collaboration? Garden Dialogues provides unique opportunities for small groups to experience some of today’s most beautiful gardens created by some of the most accomplished designers currently in practice.

Best news for those of us on road trips: Garden Dialogues are scheduled from coast to coast next weekend (July 14 and 15, 2012): Connecticut, Indianapolis, Maine, Newport, Portland (pictured) and Seattle.

Garden Dialogues are a program of the Cultural Landscape Foundation, which is dedicated to increasing the public’s awareness and understanding of the importance and irreplaceable legacy of its cultural landscapes.

(Photo courtesy of the Cultural Landscape Foundation)