Daily Archives: March 2, 2022

Thursday, March 10, 2:00 pm – The Sill and the Houseplant, Online

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What’s all the buzz about houseplants—are they changing the definition of gardens? Join Eliza Blank, founder and CEO of The Sill, a digitally native direct-to-consumer houseplant brand, in conversation Garden Conservancy President and CEO James Hall and Director of Public Programs and Education Horatio Joyce, to get the answers and learn the story behind Eliza’s company. The webinar will take place March 10 at 2 pm Eastern time on Zoom. $5 for Garden Conservancy members, $15 general admission. Register HERE.

Eliza Blank founded The Sill in 2012 when she 26 years old, working from a borrowed desk in New York City’s Chinatown. Today, The Sill employs nearly 70 people in teams dispersed in New York, New Jersey, and California. With over 800,000 Instagram followers and eight brick-and-mortar stores across the country, The Sill is an undisputed leader in the houseplant revolution, combining the old-fashioned plant center experience with savvy online marketing and community building through online forums and in person workshops.

Members of the Frank & Anne Cabot Society for Planned Giving have complimentary access to Garden Conservancy webinars. All Cabot Society members will automatically be sent the link to participate on the morning of the webinar. For more information about the Cabot Society, please contact Sarah Parker at sparker@gardenconservancy.org or 845.424.6500, ext. 214.

Friday, March 4, 5:00 am (but recording link will be sent) – The Linwood Lecture, Online

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The Gardens Trust is delighted to be working with Linwood Fabrics to offer a treat of a lecture from garden historian Caroline Holmes, looking at the English gardens and their stories that inspire a 21st century textiles designer. What do the words ‘the English garden’ evoke for you? Flowers, arbors, horticultural abundance and voluptuous style? Five key examples of such Englishness inspired Ella Richards to create five glorious designs for Linwood Fabrics. Who and what are they? Gertrude Jekyll, Hestercombe, Albertine, Vita Sackville-West and Kitty Lloyd Jones. Five defining names in, out and about the long borders of English garden history. Caroline Holmes will prime the backdrop and weave their narrative before Ella introduces the patterns they inspired.

For 27 years Linwood has put excellence at the heart of everything they do, from the quality of their designs to their level of service. In that rather English way, they straddle the worlds of creativity and innovation to produce distinctive collections of fabrics and wallpapers.

The in-house design team draws its inspiration from textile archives, museums, and the natural world to create contemporary and classic prints, weaves, and wallpapers. Each collection is carefully crafted, and designs are still drawn and painted by hand.

They’ve chosen to create a lecture in conjunction with the Gardens Trust because of the shared appreciation of the British landscape. The Trust by its tireless work on conservation and preservation, and Linwood through its celebration of classic plants on its fabrics and wallpapers. Tickets are £5. Register through Eventbrite HERE.