EVENTS & CONTACT
PRESENTATIONS
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Plants, History and Women Travelers
For hundreds of years, intrepid women botanists have broadened our knowledge of the plant kingdom around the globe. Let's dive into exploring their stories, adventures, and contributions.
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Best Garden and Landscaping Practices
Firewise? Drought tolerant? Deer proof? Native? Pollinator? the challenges of garden planning are complex! Let's talk about how to enliven, beautify and enjoy your land while considering the issues of our time.
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Gardens and Healing
There's hardly a problem a walk through the garden won't make more manageable. Gardeners know the truth of this folk wisdom, and in recent years scientific data has caught up with us. This presentation will take a look at that research and at a number of gardens specifically created for healing purposes.
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​Garden History Heroines:
The Americans Before 1935.
This presentation is based on my upcoming book, Volume II in the adventures of remarkable, often unsung women and their work in the world of plants prior to WW II.
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​​Ornamental Grasses and More:
Beauty in the Garden despite Deer and Drought
Here we take a look at ways of expanding our plant palette despite the constraints of gardening in a new ecological backdrop.
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Lawn Alternatives: This presentation is a deep dive into ways of thinking about traditional lawn area in new ways.
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