Editing Beatrix Farrand (section)

==Later years and death==
During the last part of her life, Farrand devoted herself to creating a landscape study center at [[Reef Point Estate|Reef Point]], Maine. Here she continued developing the extensive garden and preparing the property for a transition to a public study center.<ref name=Deitz>{{cite book|last1=Deitz|first1=Paula|title=Of gardens : selected essays|date=2011|publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press|location=Philadelphia|isbn=978-0-8122-4266-9|pages=15–17|edition=1st|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=H9xzdCNIXvYC&pg=PA17|access-date=27 September 2015}}</ref> She published the ''Reef Point Gardens Bulletin'' (1946–55), in which she reported on the progress of the gardens and center.<ref name=Raver>{{cite journal|last1=Raver|first1=Anne|title=Beatrix Farrand|journal=Horticulture|date=1985|volume=63|issue=2|pages=32–45}}</ref>

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.<ref name=Brown/>{{rp|190}}<ref name=Sarnacki>{{cite news|last1=Sarnacki|first1=Aislinn|title=1-minute hike: Asticou Azalea Garden in Northeast Harbor|url=http://bangordailynews.com/2015/06/16/uncategorized/11271/|access-date=27 September 2015|work=Bangor Daily News|date=June 16, 2015}}</ref> Approximately 2,000 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.<ref name=Digital>{{cite web|title=The Digital Age Brings Beatrix Farrand's Plants Back to Maine|url=http://75.103.93.16/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/reef-_point-ex_6131.pdf|website=Beatrix Farrand Society|access-date=27 September 2015}}</ref><ref name=Jepson>{{cite web|title=Herbaria Archives — Correspondence|url=http://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/main/archives/correspondence.html|website=The University and Jepson Herbaria|access-date=27 September 2015}}</ref>

Farrand lived at and spent the last three years of her life at [[Reef Point Estate|Garland Farm]], the home of her friends Lewis and Amy Magdalene Garland, on Mount Desert Island, Maine.<ref name=AmyGarland>{{cite web|title=Garland Farm|url=http://www.beatrixfarrandsociety.org/garland-farm/|website=Beatrix Farrand Society|access-date=27 September 2015}}</ref> It was here that she created her final garden, an intimate space in keeping with the size of the property.<ref name=Raver2003/> At age 86, Farrand died at the Mount Desert Island Hospital on February 28, 1959.<ref name=Brown/>{{rp|190}}

The Garland Farm was purchased by the Beatrix Farrand Society on January 9, 2004.<ref name=LALH>{{cite web|last1=Brown|first1=Jane Roy|title=New Life for Farrand's Last Garden|url=http://lalh.org/new-life-for-farrands-last-garden-2008/|website=Library of American Landscape History|date=2008|access-date=2015-09-27|archive-date=2019-02-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190222152300/http://lalh.org/new-life-for-farrands-last-garden-2008/|url-status=dead}}</ref> 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".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.beatrixfarrandsociety.org/donate/ |title=Donate |publisher=Beatrix Farrand Society |date= |access-date=2022-08-02}}</ref> It plans to continue Reef Point's original educational mission as well as to preserve Garland Farm and Beatrix Farrand's final garden.<ref name=Dwight>{{cite journal|last1=Dwight|first1=Eleanor|title=Perennial comfort: eminent garden designer Beatrix Farrand found refuge at Garland Farm on Maine's Coast|journal=Preservation the Magazine of the Nation Trust for Historic Preservation|date=2005|volume=57|pages=38–42}}</ref><ref name=Society>{{cite web|title=Beatrix Farrand Society|work=Official website|url=http://www.beatrixfarrandsociety.org|access-date=March 29, 2019}}</ref>