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 …
I was honored to be invited by The Garden Conservancy to deliver this year’s Rocky Hills Environmental Lecture in memory of the late, great lady, Henriette Suhr, my much admired friend, a woman of great style and creativity, whose wonderful garden at Rocky Hills is being carried on by new owners. This year, the talk …
Read moreRocky Hills Environmental Lecture — October 25, 2018
Judith Tankard has written a wonderful review of my book in her American Book Notes article in British quarterly, Hortus, A Gardening Journal, along with several others. In addition she has taken two photographs from my book, the one of Dan Hinkley and the glorious aerial photograph of Central Park, the only two images in …
I was delighted to see my book so enthusiastically reviewed in The American Gardener, The Magazine of the American Horticultural Society in the September-October 2018 issue. Mary Ann Newcomer, in writing the review, highlights some of the heroes in the book and particularly notes with approval my observation of the often shared underlying art theme …
Thankfully, it was dry after heavy thunderstorms the night before for my talk at the famous Ladew Topiary Gardens on Thursday morning, September 27, 2018. Shown above is the iconic fox hunt, all created out of topiary. My good friend, Muffin Dell, and her wonderful husband, Sam, invited Charlie and me to stay with her …