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Greenwich Botanical Center to Screen ‘The Gardener’

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Greenwich Botanical Center will present: The Gardener – Movie Night, on Thursday, Feb. 21 at 130 Bible St.

Influential gardener and horticulturalist Frank Cabot recounts his personal quest for perfection at Les Quatre Vents, his 20 acres English style garden and summer estate. Nestled in the rolling hills of the Charlevoix County in Quebec, Les Quatre Vents has become one of the world’s foremost private gardens. Created over three generations, it is an enchanted place of beauty and surprise, a horticultural masterpiece of the 21st century.

Through the words of Cabot and his family, and with the participation of gardening experts and writers, the film looks back at this remarkable man’s personal story and the artistic philosophy that gave birth to one of the greatest gardens in the world. The result is a dazzling series of separate outdoor scenes that open onto one another, with each framing a view of the next, or the St. Lawrence River beyond.

The Gardener, directed by Sébastien Chabot, relies on previously recorded narration by Mr. Cabot, who died in 2011. Mr. Cabot refers to himself as a “master plagiarist” for purloining ideas from gardens he visited on his travels to Nepal, European cities and India, and employing them at home. Frank Cabot is the founder of the Garden Conservancy.

Tickets are: $10 for members and $20 for non-members the snow date is Feb. 28.

For more information, contact 203-869-9242 or info@greenwichbotanicalcenter.org, or visit greenwichbotanicalcenter.org

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