Daily Archives: April 30, 2024

Thursday, May 16, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm Eastern – Moon Garden: A Guide to Creating an Evening Oasis, Online

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Moon Garden is a guide to creating a garden that comes alive at night, with night-blooming plants and night-fragrant flowers. The book is full of design and horticultural wisdom, planting tips for outdoor, indoor, and container gardens, and soothing rituals such as journaling and meditations. With beautiful botanical illustrations, Moon Garden encourages readers to approach gardening as a grounding, spiritual practice.

Presenter Jarema Osofsky is a Brooklyn-based landscape designer with roots in Hong Kong. Jarema’s design studio, Dirt Queen NYC, works closely with clients to create verdant gardens that offer meaningful and ecologically sustainable connections to the natural world. Her debut book, Moon Garden: A Guide to Creating an Evening Oasis invites readers to dive into the enchanting world of night gardens. Jarema’s work has been featured in Architectural Digest, T Magazine, Elle Decor, Apartment Therapy, and others.

This May 16 Garden Conservancy webinar is $5 for Garden Conservancy members, $15 for nonmembers. Register at https://www.gardenconservancy.org/education/education-events/virtual-talk-moon-garden

Tuesday, May 14, 12:00 noon – 1:15 pm Eastern – Silk: A World History, Online

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Silk—prized for its lightness, luminosity, and beauty—is also one of the strongest biological materials ever known. More than a century ago, it was used to make the first bulletproof vest, and yet science has barely begun to tap its potential. The technologies it has inspired—including sutures, pharmaceuticals, and replacement body parts—continue to be developed in laboratories around the world and are now beginning to offer a sustainable alternative to the plastics choking our planet.

Aarathi Prasad, author of Silk: A World History, outlines the cultural and biological history of the fabric, including its origins, the ancient silk routes, and the biologists who learned the secrets of silk-producing animals. From the moths of China, Indonesia, and India to the spiders of South America and Madagascar and the mollusks of the Mediterranean, Prasad offers a mix of biography and science that brings to life the vast, winding history of silk and looks to its future as a powerful resource.

This Zoom Smithsonian Associates illustrated lecture will take place Tuesday, May 14 at noon, $25 for Smithsonian Associates members, $30 for nonmembers. Register at https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/silk-world-history