- ANNOUNCING THE WINTER SYMPOSIUM - The 2002 Winter Symposium will be presented on Saturday, January 12, 2002 at Goodwood. There will be four great speakers. Noted author and horticulturalist Valencia Libby of Philadelphia will be speaking on "Women and Gardens - the Pass-along Factor". Her husband Jay Danzenbaker, who is head gardener of Bartram's Garden in Philadelphia, will speak on "How Antique Plants Are Used at Bartram's Garden". Also presenting at the symposium is local Iris expert Bill Snyder on "Bearded Irises for the Deep South". And rounding out this superb list of speakers will be Scott Kunst, owner-operator of Old House Gardens in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Mr. Kunst will speak on "The OTHER Heirloom Bulbs". The registration fee of $35 will include a luncheon. Space is limited and early reservations are recommended. Contact Goodwood at 850-877-4202 for more details or mail your registration fee of $35 per person to Goodwood Museum and Gardens, 1600 Miccosukee Rd., Tallahassee, FL 32308.

Goodwood Museum and Gardens, Inc. is a public charity created to restore the historic Goodwood estate as a museum and garden available to the public. To find out more about this project, go to the Goodwood Homepage, which was created by Joe Clark. The Goodwood website will be updated over the coming weeks and we will be adding lots of information about Goodwood events and volunteer activities.

I have been working with the Goodwood staff to research heirloom plants to try to recreate the gardens as they may have looked during the early years. The garden master plan has not been completed yet, but the intent is to create separate garden areas to represent the various owners of the property from 1830 to the 1920's.


One of the owners of the property was Senator Willliam C. Hodges, who purchased the property in 1925. Little is known about the gardens he created at Goodwood, but we do know he had an interest in tropical plants, and he built an aviary for his collection of tropical birds. One of my assignments as a Goodwood volunteer is to research the availability of tropical and tropical looking plants that were introduced into the trade in the 1920's or before. If you have any information that might be helpful, please be sure to contact me.