In Not Your Mother’s Garden, Deborah Chud takes her audience on a photo tour of her dramatic Piet-Oudolf-style New Perennial Garden and describes the design principles underlying it. Many of the plants are unfamiliar – even to experienced and knowledgeable gardeners. These “New Perennials” constitute a special canon of plants that exhibit qualities valued by members of the New Perennial Movement – pioneers in the shift toward naturalist landscape design. What’s new about New Perennials and what can they do for you? Walk through her garden with her to find out. This online presentation sponsored by New England Botanic Garden at Tower Hill takes place Thursday, January 25 at 7 pm Eastern, and is $10 for NEBG members, $15 for nonmembers. Register at www.nebg.org.
Deborah Chud is a retired Massachusetts physician turned garden maker, consultant, and educator, who specializes in coaching home gardeners (in-person and virtually). Her years of research on the world’s most famous New Perennial gardens (including New York’s High Line, Chicago’s Lurie Garden, the Oudolf Meadow at Delaware Botanic Garden, and Oudolf Garden Detroit) have generated a unique database of New Perennial plant combinations and fostered the creation of her own highly unusual New Perennial garden.
