Masterpiece Garden Design:
A Private Consultation
with Les Lutz
A One-of-a-Kind Experience for Your Home

Some auction items you use once. This one grows for decades.

For nearly fifty years, Les Lutz has shaped some of the most celebrated landscapes in the country: from the New York Botanical Garden to Longwood Gardens, and for the last 15 years, Heritage’s own 100 acres. This is your chance to put that expertise to work on the ground you call home.

Masterpiece Garden Design:
A Private Consultation
with Les Lutz
A One-of-a-Kind Experience for Your Home

Some auction items you use once. This one grows for decades.

For nearly fifty years, Les Lutz has shaped some of the most celebrated landscapes in the country: from the New York Botanical Garden to Longwood Gardens, and for the last 15 years, Heritage’s own 100 acres. This is your chance to put that expertise to work on the ground you call home.

Your Landscape Design Journey Includes

  • Inspirational Tour: A personalized tour of Heritage for home garden ideas.
  • Private Consultation: An expert, on-site assessment at your property.
  • Custom Design Plan: A tailored landscape sketch and planting plan.
  • Signature Plants: Your plan will feature iconic Heritage rhododendrons and stewartia.
  • One-Year Follow-Up: A return visit from Les to check your garden’s progress.

Begin at Heritage

Your experience opens with a private, guided walk through Heritage’s grounds alongside Les showing you architectural foliage, brilliant seasonal blooms, and design ideas gathered in real time, straight from the mind that shaped them.

Begin at Heritage

Your experience opens with a private, guided walk through Heritage’s grounds alongside Les showing you architectural foliage, brilliant seasonal blooms, and design ideas gathered in real time, straight from the mind that shaped them.

A Garden Built Around You

Les then comes to you and does a comprehensive on-site consultation at your own property. Working with your land’s unique contours, light, and conditions, he creates a custom planting plan or detailed sketch built specifically for your space. No template. No guesswork. Just decades of expertise, applied to your home.

A Piece of Heritage, Planted at Home

Your design will feature the same signature plants that make Heritage unforgettable, flagship rhododendrons and stewartia. So a piece of the museum’s magic takes root in your own backyard.

A Piece of Heritage, Planted at Home

Your design will feature the same signature plants that make Heritage unforgettable, flagship rhododendrons and stewartia. So a piece of the museum’s magic takes root in your own backyard.

The Part Most Packages Skip

A design is a beginning, not an ending. One year later, Les returns to your property to see how the garden has settled, grown, and evolved, helping to refine the vision as it comes to life.

Meet Your Designer

Les Lutz is Heritage’s Director of Horticulture and Facilities Management, overseeing the design and care of the museum’s 100-acre property for the past 15 years. His resume includes Conservatory Manager at the New York Botanical Garden and Curator of Bonsai at Longwood Gardens; a career spent transforming landscapes since 1976.

Meet Your Designer

Les Lutz is Heritage’s Director of Horticulture and Facilities Management, overseeing the design and care of the museum’s 100-acre property for the past 15 years. His resume includes Conservatory Manager at the New York Botanical Garden and Curator of Bonsai at Longwood Gardens; a career spent transforming landscapes since 1976.

For more information about this auction item, please contact Greg Wobst at development@heritagemuseums.org or 774-205-2742