Point Gardens Bulletin (1946–55) in which she reported on the progress of the gardens and center. After a wildfire on the island and facing a lack of funding to complete and ensure the continued operation of a center she made a remarkable decision in 1955 to discontinue the preparations, dismantle the garden, sell the property, and use the proceeds for her last years. John D. Rockefeller, Jr. purchased all Reef Point's larger plants for his Asticou Azalea Garden in Northeast Harbor, Maine, which continue to flower. Approximately 2000 herbarium specimens were given to the University and Jepson Herbaria at the University of California, Berkeley, where they serve as a permanent record of her choice of plants and localities. Farrand lived at and spent the last three years of her life at Garland Farm, the home of her friends Lewis and Amy Magdalene Garland, on Mount Desert Island, Maine. It was here that she created her final garden, an intimate space in keeping with the size of the property. At age 86 Farrand died at the Mount Desert Island Hospital on February 28, 1959. The Garland Farm was purchased by the Beatrix Farrand Society on January 9, 2004. The society's mission is "to foster the art and science of horticulture and landscape design, with emphasis on the life and work of Beatrix Farrand". It plans to continue Reef Point's original educational mission as well as to preserve Garland Farm and Beatrix Farrand's final garden. Further reading Patrick Chassé (Maine Olmsted Alliance), The Last Garden of Beatrix Farrand External links Dumbarton Oaks Official Dumbarton Oaks website www.beatrixfarrandgardenhydepark.org Official Garden at Bellefield website Beatrix Farrand: Landscape Architect, Princeton University] American Studies @ University of Virginia "Beatrix Farrand 'Landscape Gardener'" WOMAN LANDSCAPE GARDENER.; Miss Beatrix Jones Has Attained Her Eminence in the Profession by Hard Study and by Travel. New York Times, 1899 Finding aid to the Beatrix Farrand Collection at the Environmental Design Archives, University of California, Berkeley The Mount, Edith Wharton's Home References 1872 births 1959 deaths American landscape and garden designers American designers American gardeners Women landscape architects 20th-century American artists Landscape design history of the United States American landscape architects Harvard University alumni Arnold Arboretum People from Bar Harbor, Maine Architects from New York City Columbia School of Mines alumni People included in New York Society's Four Hundred