On a cold, rainy Sunday afternoon, my long time admired and dear friend, Areta Warren invited me to speak at the Hotchkiss Library in Sharon, Connecticut for their Sunday afternoon series. Areta is a member of the Library’s board. My book talk was first scheduled for early March but cancelled at the last moment due …
What a delight to deliver my book talk to the Horticultural Alliance of the Hamptons at the Bridgehampton Inn on Sunday afternoon, April 14. Here I am above with the President, Alicia Whitaker who kindly introduced me to a special group of supporters invited to this event, also giving my book review in that weekend’s …
Read moreHorticultural Alliance of The Hamptons — April 14, 2019
Marie Williams was kind enough to invite me to speak to the Knollwood Garden Club at their meeting held at the Greenwich Botanical Center in Cos Cob, Connecticut. You can see Marie above in pink with me and the Club President, Carolyn Nielsen. Carolyn first conducted their business meeting with reports from the members …
Read moreKnollwood Garden Club at the Greenwich Botanical Center — April 11, 2019
I was delighted to be asked by Christopher Carduff, the book editor of the Wall St. Journal, to write this year’s spring round up of gardening books, as I did last year. It came out on the weekend edition and you can read it here. Happy that the first book I reviewed, Saving Central Park, …
I was delighted to be invited to speak about my book at The Elizabeth Park Conservancy to a very engaged audience. Christine Doty, the President and C.E.O., introduced me and thanked me afterwards by presenting me with the gorgeous orchid you see above. Elizabeth Park is on Asylum Avenue in West Hartford, Connecticut and features …
An inspiring evening on March 20th featured Kenneth Frazier, the Chairman and CEO (and former General Counsel) of Merck & Co., Inc. in conversation with Conrad Harper, a past President of the New York City Bar Association (and former partner in Simpson Thatcher & Bartlett; former legal adviser to the U.S. State Department). Ken Frazier …
Read moreKenneth Frazier and Conrad Harper –BPR Series at the New York City Bar Association
I was honored to be ask to give this year’s Spencer Lecture at the Birmingham Botanical Gardens and to have my first visit to Alabama. Southern hospitality is all that it is described to be and more. What a marvelous welcome! Even the weather was lovely. The Friends of Birmingham Botanical Gardens is a private …
I am thrilled to report that Fine Arts Connoisseur (January/February 2019) just out has a wonderful article about my book, Heroes of Horticulture: Americans Who Transformed the Landscape. How wonderful to have this highly prestigious, international publication that focuses on the fine arts, usually limited to paintings, drawing and sculpture, appreciate the underlying art theme …
The Garden Conservancy’s recent Newsletter was kind enough to profile a story about my new book and me. See the first part above and the rest below. It appeared just before their annual elegant Christmas dinner for Fellows at the Knickbocker Club in New York, and shortly after their big holiday party in California. Most …
I was delighted to return to Tower Hill Botanic Garden where I had given a talk some years before about my first book to this time talk about my current book, Heroes of Horticulture. And a special treat to have one of my heroes come — Darrell Probst, who began his own extraordinary career in …