Wave Hill announced Cathy
Deutsch as the organization’s
new director of horticulture,
effective Sept. 27. Deutsch succeeds
Louis Bauer, who retired
after close to seven years in the
position.
A public garden and cultural
center, Wave Hill has
attracted exemplary horticultural
leaders whose long
tenures have enabled each to
shape its extraordinary 28
acres. Founding Director of
Horticulture Marco Polo Stufano,
trained by the legendary
T.H. Everett, arrived in 1967,
and soon began to collaborate
with John Nally, a born gardener
and trained printmaker,
to design the landscape. Followed
by Scott Canning, now
horticulture and special projects
director at Santa Fe Botanical
Garden, and then by Louis
Bauer, Cathy Deutsch is only
the fourth to lead horticulture
at Wave Hill since it became a
public garden in 1965.
“Wave Hill is a such an infl
uential garden to so many,”
Duetsch said. “Every gardener
I know revels in Wave Hill’s
daring and layered compositions
that represent a global
diversity of plantcommunities.
Wave Hill sparked my interest
in plants and inspired a lifelong
passion for gardens. I feel
an inherent responsibility to
maintain the traditions of innovation,
inclusion, and thoughtful
cultivation. To follow my
mentors in this position, is an
extraordinary honor.”
Deutsch’s connections to
Wave Hill reach back more
than two decades to the two
last years of Stufano’s tenure
as director, when she volunteered
in the garden, and was
one of Wave Hill’s John Nally
Interns in 2001-2002. A twoyear
stint at the Central Park
Conservancy honed her skills
as an arborist, after which she
went on to design and install
the gardens of Stuyvesant
Town with a crew of 28 union
staff. She spent seven years at
Greenwood Gardens as garden
manager under Louis
Bauer, during his tenure there
as director of Horticulture.
More recently, she devoted
seven years to transforming
the gardens at Iroki, a private
estate in Mount Kisco, and
two years running her own
garden design/build business.
Her new appointment at Wave
Hill brings her once again
close to a place for which she
feels “uniquely primed.”
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“Cathy Deutsch could not
be more perfectly suited to
the role of Director of Horticulture,”
said Karen Meyerhoff,
Wave Hill president
and executive director. “The
fi rst woman to hold this position,
she takes a beauty-fi rst
approach to design using her
deep knowledge of plants to
breathtaking effect. She is an
experienced manager who understands
the multi-faceted
needs of a public garden. And
she understands Wave Hill’s
intimate scale, its power to
fi ll people with wonder and
delight because these qualities
are the foundation of her
own work. We are absolutely
thrilled to welcome her.”
-Bronx Times
Cathy Deutsch has been named Wave Hill’s new director of horticulture.
Photo Joshua Bright
Wave Hill announces new
horticulture director
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