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Please join us for a special evening as we celebrate the beginning of summer at the Biocultural Conservation Farm. This event has event has become a cherished tradition as we herald the new season with a delicious meal, cocktails, live music, and more!
See the Oak Spring Garden in a whole new season. Featuring an all-new exhibition in the Oak Spring Gallery, “The Final Resting Place of John F. Kennedy: The Untold Story of a Lost Memorial,” tickets for our final major 2025 tours are now available. Open June 27th and 28th, 2025.
These programs invite practitioners from a diverse array of disciplines – from visual and literary arts to plant science and historic research – to spend dedicated time at oak Spring pursuing their creative projects relating to plants, gardens, landscapes, and the natural world.
Our roster of upcoming workshops and short courses is growing! Visit this page to view our program calendar and see which opportunities are currently open for you to engage with us.
Landscapes can be full of surprises. Earlier this year our Head of Biodiversity Conservation, Charlotte Lorick, discovered some incredibly rare plant communities tucked away in the woods at Rokeby Farm. Read our recent blog about the discovery here.
Join us on November 18th for our annual farm to table dinner. Enjoy the bounty of the Oak Spring Garden Foundation's Biocultural Conservation Farm while learning about the Foundation's work.
This book was released in concert with a touring exhibition of the same name, both of which honor the extraordinary life of Rory McEwen, an artist whom Rachel “Bunny” Lambert Mellon deemed “the preeminent botanical artist of the twentieth century.”
Applications for 2024 Fellowship and Residency programs are now open, and include opportunities for artists, researchers, conservation practitioners, and more. The deadline to apply is May 31st, 2023.
Oak Spring will be open to visitors on April 20th and 21st as part of Historic Garden Week in Virginia. Tickets for these events are currently sold out.
We are now accepting reservations for our two fall public tour days – Thursday, September 22nd, and Friday, September 23rd. Visitors will see Bunny Mellon’s landscape and garden in their early autumn glory, as well as our Biocultural Conservation Farm on the Rokeby Farm property.
This downloadable exhibit, created by OSGF in partnership with the National Association for Olmsted Parks and Olmsted 200, celebrates the bicentennial of the pioneering landscape architect and social reformer’s birth.
Are you a young artist, age 13 - 17, who finds inspiration in the plants around you? The Oak Spring Garden Foundation is seeking to feature young artists who create art that responds to plants, gardens or landscapes on our website and social media. Click on the image to learn more! The deadline to enter is October 31st, 2022.
In this virtual talk created for Monticello, OSGF President Sir Peter Crane discusses the connections between Oak Spring’s collections and Thomas Jefferson’s own interest in plant exploration and botanical discovery.
This beautifully illustrated book, both scholarly and accessible to all, provides a fascinating insight into the private world and intellectual passions of the renowned philanthropists Paul and Bunny Mellon through the two trompe l’oeil paintings that they commissioned for their main residence at Oak Spring, Virginia.