Boston Flora

Category: Author Book Signing

  • Monday, July 20, 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm – Slow Wood

    Join The Walden Woods Project for an evening with environmental historian and forester Brian Donahue as he discusses his new book, Slow Wood: Greener Building from Local Forests. Drawing on history, ecology, and his own experience building a timber-frame home from sustainably managed Massachusetts woodlands, Donahue explores a compelling question: Can our homes once again be connected to the forests that surround them?

    For centuries, New England homes—including those near Walden Woods—were built and heated with locally harvested wood. As industrial logging transformed the lumber industry, that relationship was largely lost. Slow Wood asks whether a different path is possible—one that supports healthy forests, resilient communities, and more sustainable building practices.

    Donahue, Professor Emeritus of American Environmental Studies at Brandeis University and author of The Great Meadow, brings decades of research on New England’s environmental history to this timely conversation about conservation, forestry, and the future of housing.

    Monday, July 20, 2026 from 7:00–8:00 PM ET. The free talk takes place at The Walden Woods Project, Lincoln, MA (address provided upon registration) Register at https://www.walden.org/events/slow-wood-greener-building-from-local-forests-with-brian-donahue/

  • Wednesday, July 22, 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm – Flora Culture: How Flowers Shape Our World

    Our love of flowers and desire to be close to them has, across cultures and for millennia, created both landscapes and livelihoods. In her book Flora Culture: How Flowers Shape Our World, Christin Geall covers hot topics such as aesthetics, appropriation, fair trade, floriculture, globalization, indigeneity, modernism, seasonality, and tokenism—to name only a few of the over eighty entries presented here in an accessible A to Z format.

    In her inimitable style, Geall shares personal stories and ideas from growers and designers, weaving her narratives between art, ecology, and history to get readers truly thinking about their relationships to plants, gardens, and design. Hear the author at the Boston Athenaeum, 10 1/2 Beacon Street, on July 22 at 6 pm. Register at www.bostonathenaeum.org

    ABOUT THE SPEAKER

    Christin Geall is an acclaimed writer, designer, and photographer whose work focuses on the intersections of nature, culture, and horticulture. She is the author of Cultivated: The Elements of Floral Style. Following the success of her first book, she now turns her attention to our global relationships with flowers and plants.

    TICKETS & TICKET POLICIES

    Tickets are required for this event. Members and their guests are at no cost. Visitor tickets are $20 and include first floor admission. Tickets are refundable if canceled up to 48 hours before the event.

    By attending an event at the Boston Athenaeum, you may be photographed or recorded. Your presence indicates consent to the use of your image, voice, and name in any media related to the Boston Athenaeum’s work, including on websites, social media, news, and promotional materials.

  • Sunday, June 28, 1:00 pm – 4:00 pm – Harnessing Our Gardens Celebratory Lunch

    Please join the Urban Farming Institute, 487 Norfolk St, Mattapan, on June 28 from 1 – 4 to celebrate the launch of the book, Harnessing our Gardens! The publication features essays, poems, and intimate conversations with Joanne “Mrs. JoJo” Caidor, Laila J. Franklin, Annalise “River” Guidry, Adrienne Hawkins, Sarah “Nnenna Loveth” Nwafor, Isaura Oliveira, Jenny Oliver, Ellice Patterson, Nailah Randall-Bellinger, Lilly Rose Valore, Jessica Roseman, Saturn, Von, Makeda Wallace, Ella Wechsler-Matthaei, Pearl Young, and additional artists whose insights deeply informed this work. For complete information, and to register, visit Eventbrite HERE. $25, book purchasing available at a separate price.

  • Monday, June 15, 7:00 pm – The Gardener’s Mindset

    Stephen Orr has written about gardening for most of his decades-long career, and now, in The Gardener’s Mindset, he helps readers to understand not just how to garden but how to think about it. Inspired by the great tradition of twentieth-century garden essay collections by writers such as Vita Sackville-West, Elizabeth Lawrence, and Henry Mitchell, Orr delves into his personal gardening journey, culling from the various gardens he and his husband created over the past decades. He remembers his first garden on a New York City rooftop, where he followed beginner’s instinct to rearrange endlessly pots of old roses, herbs, perennials, and even trees. Later in Iowa, the challenge of anything interesting in his shade-filled backyard led Orr to discover the beautiful patterns and colors of leafy lungworts and epimediums. And he shares how his current garden in Cape Cod is a work in progress and serves as his trial-and-error lab, where he is learning how to cultivate plants that can stay resilient in the face of dry sandy soil, dramatic coastal storms, and climate change. Alongside gorgeous photographs and easy projects that range from cultivating a color scheme to building a wildlife habitat, The Gardener’s Mindset will delight anyone interested in the analog pleasures

    The author talk on June 15 will take place at the Wellfleet Public Library, 55 West Main Street. Free, but seating is limited so please plan accordingly, For more information call 508-349-0310.

  • Sunday, June 14, 10:00 am – Founding Gardeners

    Join Historic Beverly on June 14 for a special Sunday Morning Book Talk with award-winning historian and bestselling author Andrea Wulf.

    Discover the fascinating story behind Founding Gardeners: The Revolutionary Generation, Nature, and the Shaping of the American Nation and learn how George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and James Madison viewed gardening, agriculture, and nature as central to the creation of the United States.

    Andrea Wulf brings history to life through an engaging exploration of plants, politics, and the Revolutionary generation. Wulf reveals how America’s founding fathers understood the natural world not simply as a backdrop to history, but as central to the creation of the nation itself. George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison considered themselves first and foremost farmers, gardeners, and botanists. Their deep passion for agriculture, plants, and the landscape shaped both their personal lives and their political vision for the new republic.

    Through vivid storytelling and rich historical detail, Andrea Wulf examines how nature became political in Revolutionary America, how native crops and species emerged as patriotic symbols, and why James Madison can be considered the forgotten father of American environmentalism. Blending politics, horticulture, and biography, Founding Gardeners offers a fresh and compelling perspective on the Revolutionary generation and the world they cultivated.

    Andrea Wulf is an internationally celebrated historian and author whose works include Founding Gardeners and the bestselling The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt’s New World, a New York Times bestseller published in 27 languages and winner of fifteen international literary awards, including the Royal Society Science Book Prize and the Costa Biography Award. Her newest book, The Traveler, will be published in June 2026. Wulf is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and lives in London.

    Learn more about Andrea Wulf at www.andreawulf.com.

    Light brunch fare included in ticket price, $10 for Historic Beverly members, $15 for nonmembers.
    Book signing following the lecture
    Tickets here: https://tinyurl.com/4ecpz279

    Funding provided by the Massachusetts Office of Travel & Tourism Massachusetts250 initiative.

  • Thursday, June 11, 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm – New Garden Designer Workshop & Walkabout

    Join garden designer and author Daryl Beyers, Gardening Certificate Program coordinator at the New York Botanical Garden, at Berkshire Botanical Garden for an immersive workshop on garden design inspired by his latest book, The New Garden Designer: How to Design Useful, Beautiful Gardens from Start to Finish (Timber Press). The workshop, on Thursday, June 11, from 1 to 3 p.m., is followed by a walk in the Garden to show participants how certain design principles, concepts and visual keys can be translated into their own home gardens.

    Program fee includes admission to the book talk and signing that begins at 4 p.m. Books will be available for purchase.

    Garden Design Workshop: 1 to 3 p.m.

    Book Talk and Signing: 4 to 5:30 p.m

  • Tuesday, May 19, 6:30 pm – When Trees Testify

    Join The Emerald Necklace Conservancy, The Arnold Arboretum, and plant biologist and author Beronda Montgomery for a discussion on May 19 at 6:30pm of her new book, When Trees Testify: Science, Wisdom, History, and America’s Black Botanical Legacy. Taking place at Hunnewell Hall at the Arnold Arboretum, Montgomery explores the way that eight trees and shrubs testify to the experience of black Americans and takes us through black American history with trees and shrubs as our guides. Register here www.arboretum.harvard.edu/event/when-trees-testify-by-beronda-montgomery/

  • Friday, April 24, 7:00 pm – 8:00 pm – Evergreen: The Trees That Shaped America

    Save the Trees and The Loring Greenough House present award-winning author Trent Preszler, author of Evergreen: The Trees That Shaped America, on Friday, April 24 from 7 – 8 at the Loring Greenough House in Jamaica Plain. The event kicks off the Annual Arbor Day Celebration. Evergreen traces the deep history of conifers from their ancient resilience over millions of years to the threats they face today from climate change. Blending ecological and cultural history, the book reflects on the complex relationship between people and trees and highlights the urgent need to protect the natural systems that sustain us.

    The free talk will be followed by a Q&A, light reception, and book signing. Buy your copy of Evergreen from Rozzie Bound Books in advance for signing at the event. Attendees can pick up their reserved copy at the Loring Greenough event. Attendees also have the option to pick up the book at Rozzie Bound before the event if they want to read it beforehand. An email will be sent to you when the book is ready for pick up at Rozzie Bound. All pre-orders not picked up at the store will be brought to the Loring Greenough event for attendees to pick up.

    Register today at https://loring-greenough.org/house-event/evergreen-the-tree-that-shaped-america/

  • Monday, April 6, 7:00 pm – When the Forest Breathes: Renewal & Resilience in the Natural World

    Plan to be at the Museum of Science, Boston, on April 6 at 7 pm for a captivating conversation with acclaimed forest ecologist and bestselling author Suzanne Simard as she presents her new book, When the Forest Breathes, alongside moderators Steve Curwood and Jenni Doering of Living on Earth radio.

    Building on the groundbreaking insights of her previous book, the bestseller Finding the Mother Tree, Simard reveals how the deep cycles of renewal in forests hold the key to protecting threatened ecosystems from climate change and human disruption.

    Drawing on decades of research in her native British Columbia and collaboration with Indigenous communities, Simard demonstrates how forests thrive through intricate networks of life—from elder trees passing on their genetic knowledge to mushrooms breaking down fallen logs. Her work illuminates how thoughtful stewardship can restore balance to landscapes affected by logging, wildfire, and environmental pressures.

    With warmth, wisdom, and a profound reverence for nature, Simard intertwines her scientific discoveries with reflections on life, loss, and renewal, showing how the rhythms of the forest mirror our own journeys. When the Forest Breathes is a hopeful call to action, proving that through care, insight, and community, reversing environmental decline is within our reach.

    Tickets to this event includes a signed copy of When the Forest Breathes.

    This event is presented in partnership with Brookline Booksmith and public radio’s Living on Earth. $30. Register at https://www.mos.org/events/when-forest-breathes-author-suzanne-simard

  • Sunday, April 26, 10:00 am – 1:30 pm – Night Magic Brunch

    Join Grow Native Massachusetts on Sunday, April 26th for a special fundraiser! Brunch at 10 followed by booksigning and discussion with the author at noon. Books will be available for purchase from @thelittlebeebookshop and New York Times best-selling author @leighannhenion will be there to sign copies of her stunning book before we begin our discussion. We are thrilled to be hosted once again by @bull_run_restaurant. Their brunch buffet is a DREAM! Everything is included in your ticket, register today at https://grownativemass.org and https://tickets.bullrunrestaurant.com

    Grow Native Massachusetts is delighted to host a conversation with New York Times bestselling nature writer Leigh Ann Henion, discussing her book Night Magic: Adventures Among Glowworms, Moon Gardens, and Other Marvels of the Dark (2024), a glorious celebration of the night that invites us to leave our well-lit homes, step outside, and embrace the dark as a profoundly beautiful part of the world we inhabit.

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