Daily Archives: September 28, 2021

Monday, October 4, 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm – Cohabitation, Online

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The New York Botanical Garden’s 23rd Annual Landscape Design Series kicks off October 4 at 6:30 online with Lisa Switkin speaking on Cohabitation. As a senior principal at James Corner Field Operations, Lisa Switkin
has led many of thefirm’s most complex, bold, and transformative projects and has helped to reshape New York
City’s public realm for the past 20 years. Switkin will discuss new forms of public space that foster environmental
health and resilience, social cohesion and well-being, and connection to place. She will examine “cohabitation” and our evolving human relationship with nature, showcasing projects such as the High Line in Manhattan; Domino Park and River Ring in Brooklyn; the transformative master plan for Freshkills Parkland in Staten Island; and Shelby
Farms Park in Memphis. Lisa Switkin, FA AR, ASL A, is the former President of the Landscape Architecture
Foundation and a 2008 Rome Prize recipient at the American Academy in Rome. She earned a Bachelor in Urban Planning from the University of Illinois and a Master of Landscape Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania. She continues to teach design studios and lecture at universities, symposia, and institutions around the world.

Registration fee for each lecture: $15/$18. Register for the series and receive a discount: 222L AN801AO | $39/$49 For more information, click HERE


Saturday, October 2, 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm – History and Preservation of the American Elm in New England

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Tom Zetterstrom initiated Elm Watch in 1999 to protect the Baldwin Hill Elm from the threat of Dutch elm disease, and launched a regional effort with Tim Abbott of The Nature Conservancy to “adopt” specimen elms in our tri-state region. Several of these elms remain on the landscape. National Arboretum research on disease resistant elm cultivars in 2001 prompted elm restoration nationally. Learn what elm cultivars performed well and how to reduce the risk of Dutch elm disease.

Tom Zetterstrom’s photographic record reveals a changing landscape impacted by species decline, alien plant invasion and forest collapse. In these talks he will describe projects in Connecticut and Massachusetts that have protected trees in natural and community forests. In 1999 he co-founded Elm Watch. Tom received the 2011 Public Awareness of Trees award from the national Arbor Day Foundation, and the 2013 Connecticut Urban forest Council’s meritorious service award for efforts “to educate and promote positive change regarding trees and plants.” He is recognized for his Portraits of America Trees exhibition and his photographs are in the collections of 43 museums nationally.

This Berkshire Botanical Garden talk will be held October 2 at 3:30 pm at the Garden. BBG members $10, nonmembers $15. Advanced registration requested at https://www.berkshirebotanical.org/events/history-and-preservation-american-elm-new-england