November 2017
Mystic Garden Club Book Talk
I am looking forward to talking to the Mystic Garden Club on Tuesday morning, November 14, at 10:30 AM about my book about Rosemary Verey --- BUT ALSO about my new book about to come out early in the New Year. It is Heroes of Horticulture: Americans Who Transformed The Landscape, published by David R. ...
Find out more »September 2018
Hollister House Garden Study Weekend VIII Symposium – A Passion for Plants
This year's Hollister House's eighth Study Weekend Symposium is titled A Passion for Plants. It will be held at The Heritage Hotel, Southbury, CT. on Saturday September 8 starting with breakfast and several speakers. Lunch is included. After the program, there will be a very special plant sale at Hollister House Garden. I will be ...
Find out more »Ladew Topiary Garden Lecture Series
I will be speaking about my book at Ladew Topiary Gardens on Thursday, September 27th at 10:30 that morning. I have spoken for them before and it is always a pleasure to return to Maryland to have a chance to visit this extraordinary garden. My book will be offered for sale.
Find out more »October 2018
Rocky Hills Environmental Lecture Series
Having known the late, great, Henriette Suhr and her marvelous garden creation at Rocky Hills, I am honored to be speaking at a Rocky Hill Environmental Lecture established in her honor and memory. The event will be held on Thursday, October 25th at 7:00 PM and is jointly sponsored by The Garden Conservancy and The ...
Find out more »November 2018
Tower Hill Botanic Garden
I look forward to returning to Tower Hill Botanic Garden to give a talk about my new talk, especially as one of my heroes in the book, Darrell Probst began his early horticultural career there. My talk is on Sunday November 11 beginning at 1:00 PM and I will also be signing books that will ...
Find out more »March 2019
Birmingham Botanical Garden
I am excited and honored to be asked to speak for the Birmingham Botanical Garden on March 7, 2019 at 6:00 PM. Never having been to Alabama before, I so look forward to visiting the Birmingham Botanical Garden and seeing something of that fine City. Leaving the dark days of March in the Northeast, during ...
Find out more »April 2019
Elizabeth Park Conservancy
I look forward to returning the the Elizabeth Park Conservancy in West Hartford to talk about my book as part of their 2019 Lecture Series. Elizabeth Park covers over 100 acres and is on the Registry of National Historic Places. My talk will take place at the Pond House in Elizabeth Park from 11 AM ...
Find out more »The Knollwood Garden Club
The Knollwood Garden Club will be hosting a meeting of their members and guests to hear my talk about Heroes of Horticulture: Americans Who Transformed The Landscape on the morning of Thursday, April 11. The meeting begins at 11:00 AM and will be held at the Greenwich Botanical Center which is in the Montgomery Pinetum ...
Find out more »Horticultural Alliance of the Hamptons
I have been asked to return to speak for the Horticultural Alliance of the Hamptons again but this time about my new book, Heroes of Horticulture. It will be held at the Bridgehampton Inn on April 14 with the talk to begin at 2 PM followed by a question and answer session, book signing and ...
Find out more »Hotchkiss Library of Sharon — April 28, 2019
I will be giving a book talk at the Hotchkiss Library of Sharon on Sunday afternoon, April 28th at 4:00 PM. To register without charge, please call the Library at 860 364 5041. The talk was originally scheduled for March 3 but was cancelled at the last moment because of a heavy snowstorm that day. ...
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