Join AU Park/Tenleytown resident Mark Rasevic and landscape architect Jonathan Ceci for the 2019 Henry Mitchell Gardening Lecture. They will describe their part in the renovation and some of the features of the lovely Nemours estate, the largest example of French-style formal gardens in the USA.

Nemours was created by Alfred I. du Pont in 1909–10 as a gift for his second wife, Alicia, and named for the north central French town from which his great-great-grandfather emigrated. The Nemours mansion and gardens reopened its gates on May 1, 2008 after closing in 2005 for a 3-year, $39 million renovation.

Mark Rasevic is landscape contractor based in Bethesda, Maryland.

Jonathan Ceci is a landscape architect with his own practice in Baltimore, Maryland.

Henry Mitchell Lectures

Since 1995, the Friends of Tenley Library has sponsored annual lectures on topics of interest to local gardeners in memory of Henry Mitchell, who lived in Tenleytown/American University Park and was until his death in 1993 one of America’s great garden writers. For over two decades Mr. Mitchell was the Washington Post garden columnist. His books include The Essential Earthman (1982), One Man’s Garden (1992), and Henry Mitchell on Gardening (1999).