Gardens Illustrated is today’s most popular gardening periodical, thanks to its lavishly photographed features on contemporary, forward-thinking gardens that focus on irresistible plants and clever designs. In The New Beautiful, the editors at Gardens Illustrated highlight over fifty of their favorite gardens in a mix of scales and in a variety of climates t appeal to garden enthusiasts from the […]
Winter Garden, Florida is a “charming little city with a juicy past”! Our Winter Garden gardens tour will begin at the Path of Life, a small, lush public garden created to enhance the beauty of Chapin Station Park while protecting the natural environment. Katy Moss Warner, president emerita of the American Horticultural Society and president […]
A beautiful and sustainable garden starts with understanding your garden conditions, enabling you to select plants that will thrive. One crucial part of that knowledge is your garden soil. We will simplify the complex topic of garden soil into five key areas to help you understand what you need to know. This program will address […]
When Paula Whyman first climbed a peak in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in search of a home in the country, she had no idea how quickly her tidy backyard ecology project would become a massive endeavor. She soon discovered just how much she had to learn about hands-on conservation work. Bad Naturalist […]
This program will explore the historic land management practices of Indigenous women of the northern Great Plains, with a focus on the Amskapi Piikani (or Blackfeet) women. Dr. LaPier will address the ways Indigenous women promoted the growth of prairie plants, including domesticated food-plants, cultivated food-plants and “wild” food-plants within the northern Great Plains. You […]
The tour will begin at the Manhattan Beach Botanical Garden, a demonstration garden and certified nature habitat located in Polliwog Park. Garden director Gretchen Renshaw will share the season’s most stunning collections, emphasizing the garden’s work on earth-friendly gardening techniques such as water conservation for the home landscape, installation and care for California native plants, […]
Ralph Waldo Emerson memorably said, “The earth laughs in flowers,” which captures the joy people find in cottage gardens and cheerful urban flower plantings. Unlike color, fragrance is ephemeral, invisible, and hard to describe, but just as powerful! It summons memories, provides comfort, and often takes gardeners and garden visitors to exotic parts of the […]
In this talk, Dr. Lopez will focus on the history of botany in Mexico (including the southwestern United States that were previously part of Mexico), drawing from his new book, Rooted in Place: Botany, Indigeneity, and Art in the Construction of Mexican Nature, 1570-1914. Rooted in Place traces historical transformations in the relationship between nature […]
The winter garden is a truly low maintenance affair and a time to enjoy – no weeding, no watering and no deadheading! The winter landscape may be quiescent, but the garden need not be bleak. Plants with brightly colored berries, twigs, stems, foliage and even winter-blooming flowers shrug off the snow and cold. Landscape horticulturist […]
