The beauty of gardens is that they mature. Join Tovah Martin at Elm Bank, 900 Washington Street, Wellesley, on Thursday, January 30 beginning at 7 pm in this lecture about horticultural preservation, stewardship, and how gardeners grapple with change. We address the challenges of bringing landscapes into the next generation.

Whether you have inherited a landscape or created a garden over decades and now face mature trees and shrubs that require preemptive pruning or relocation, we explore issues and answers. We look at woodland gardens and grand estates, we explore gardens great and small. We tackle such sticky wickets as rehabilitating overgrown boxwood hedges and coping with plants that were once considered exotics but have now been unmasked as invasives.

This is a lecture about bringing yesterday’s gardens into tomorrow. But we also talk about plant preservation and heirloom varieties, honoring the people who have worked to preserve vintage ornamentals so those plants with a past can become the superstars of future gardens.

Ms. Martin will have copies of her most recent books available for purchase and signing.  Fee is $20 for Massachusetts Horticultural Society members, $25 for nonmembers.  For more information visit www.masshort.org or call 617-933-4973.  Image below from www.flowermag.com.