Experience the beauty of spring on the mountaintop as our Victorian Show Garden comes to life with a breathtaking splendor of 20,000 tulips and the wonder of our budding natural landscape. In celebration, we welcome a variety of floral teas and cookies daily, alongside crafts, garden tours, campfires, music, cocktail demonstrations, and more.
Schedule:
A Tour through the Tulip Gardens and Property
11am
Join a member of our Greenhouse Staff for a morning stroll around this season's show garden of 20,000 Tulips. Learn about the techniques and planning required completing this complicated endeavor.
Music and Afternoon Floral Tea
4pm
Mohonk's long-standing tradition of tea and cookies will be accompanied by pianists from across the Hudson Valley.
Pressed Flower Bookmarks
7:30pm
Calling all bookworms and crafty creators! Come create your very own pressed flower bookmark.
"Jervis McEntee and the Hudson River School of Art" with Professor Kerry Dean Carso
9pm
This illustrated lecture will serve as an introduction to the Hudson River School, a group of nineteenth-century American landscape painters. The Hudson River School was part of the larger movement of Romanticism that exalted in natural scenes as a response to the Industrial Revolution. The lecture will focus on the Kingston artist Jervis McEntee and examine his place within the context of nineteenth-century technological progress and the Romantic lure of nature.
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