Explore how ideas and approaches to gardening can change over a lifetime with 2020 Scott Medal and Award Winner Holly Shimizu. “For over 40 years, has written and preached the gospel of gardening and horticulture throughout the nation and, indeed, throughout the world. " -...
How does an individual garden relate to the larger landscape? How does it connect to the natural and cultural environment? Does it evoke a sense of place? In addressing these topics in a slide presentation based on his new book, Spirit of Place, Bill Noble—a lifelong...
Join Richard Lyon and Claire Sawyers for an exploration of this fascinating part of the world beginning with a geological and cultural evolution of New Zealand as a landmass, then a distinct ecosystem, and finally how Polynesians and Europeans shaped the land to create the...
Join Rob Cardillo for a behind the scenes look at the joys and challenges of photographing three very different garden books – A Year at Brandywine Cottage (David Culp and Denise Cowie), Twenty One Trees (Mountain Top Arboretum), and The Seasonal Border (NYBG). Rob Cardillo...
Join Jill Nooney for a story of how two people created a 37-acre garden over 35 years culminating in its becoming a public garden. Jill is the problem maker and Bob Munger is the problem solver. Jill has a ton of ideas and is impatient...
Join Visiting Assistant Professor of Biology at Swarthmore College Jake J. Grossman on this fascinating botanical journey! Over the last 60 million years, the genus Acer (maples) has radiated from its origins in present-day China to include roughly 160 species spread across the temperate north,...
Join Julie Jenney to celebrate the fantastic trees of the Scott Arboretum on the eve of Arbor Day. After a brief history of the arboretum and virtual tour of some of her favorite campus scenes, Julie will highlight several of the arboretum's most prized trees,...
Join Valerie McLaughlin, American Institute of Floral Designers (AIFD), for a virtual webinar featuring this lush, lovely gift from the garden – peonies! Learn easy, unique, and interesting techniques showcasing this magnificent flower that is just starting to bloom in May. Since this will be...
