Daily Archives: October 14, 2020

Sunday, November 8, 4:00 pm – 5:15 pm – Celebrating Together: Arriving Home Virtual Garden Party

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Please join the American Horticultural Society on Sunday, November 8 from 4 – 5:15 for a virtual garden party, Celebrating Together: Arriving Home. This event features seasonal entertaining with Southern flair, festive recipes, fabulous flowers and gardens, signature cocktails and a surprise celebrity guest appearance, all online! Reserve your place now and receive an autographed copy, by mail, of Honorary Chair James Farmer’s newest book, Arriving Home.

This year’s Honorary Chair is celebrated interior designer, gardener, and bestselling author James Farmer, who will take us on a live tour of his beautiful south Georgia home and garden while sharing his favorite tips for seasonal entertaining, table design, and fall gardening—all served up with a large dose of his signature southern charm and style. In addition, an expert mixologist will craft specialty cocktails with a seasonal flair to launch the celebration. The festivities will conclude with a surprise guest appearance “from across the pond” who will cap off the celebration with an uplifting message and lively repartee. Monte Durham — the witty style maven and star of TLC’s Say Yes to the Dress: Atlanta—will host the festivities from AHS headquarters at historic River Farm in Alexandria, Virginia.

Special bonus gifts. All participants will receive an autographed copy of James Farmer’s newest book, Arriving Home. In addition to the live program, all guests will be invited to the pre-event reception and online auction as well as receive a virtual “gift bag” filled with recipes, gardening and flower arranging tips and special offers. Sponsors and their guests will be treated to exclusive benefits including access to pre-and-post-event VIP chat rooms featuring celebrity guest visits, special prize raffles and more.

Ticket prices for AHS’s fall fundraiser begin at $150. Learn more and register at www.ahsgardening.org/gardenparty

The Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University’s New Website

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The Arnold Arboretum has just released an entirely new website, a fresh portal to the institution that has been two years in the making! Ned Friedman says: “We set out to create an online identity as evocative, welcoming, and revelatory as the collections and landscape themselves.  Over the next few weeks, we will introduce you to newly curated stories from the Arboretum including plant biographies, tales of plant exploration, scientific discoveries, and the institution’s multifaceted roles in promoting social and environmental justice. We will pull back the curtain to reveal some of the magic that lies behind our roughly 16,000 woody plants and 281 acres of Olmsted-designed landscape. Today I’m excited to share a new feature with you. “Walks” offer virtual tours of the Living Collections, curated and designed by our staff, including me. The Director’s Tour illuminates just a few of the thousands of plants I’ve photographed and been captivated by over the past decade. Join me to find out why I love snakebark maples (and why you should too), why inhaling putrid ginkgo seeds is vivifying, and why I worship the acorns of the Oriental oak. And when you next visit, make your way to these very plants to experience their charms through the seasons in person. ” Very exciting news indeed.