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  • Tuesday, November 28, 12:00 noon – 1:15 pm Eastern – The Bridge Between Horticulture and the Environment, Online

    Horticulture is going through a revolution, as our fragile environment becomes increasingly in need of our care. The observation and analysis that is so embedded in this process, and the craftsmanship of tending for a garden, are perfect gateways to thinking about the neglected and overused places beyond the garden. Dan Pearson, whose painterly-natural landscapes are renowned in Britain and beyond, will demonstrate how landscape design can be the medium that brings together the worlds of nature, agriculture, and garden. This NDAL webinar will take place November 28 at noon, but the session will be recorded and available to registrants for 3 months following the live presentation. $42. Register at https://learning.ndal.org/courses/bridge-horticulture-environment

    Dan Pearson is a British landscape designer, horticulturist, writer, and gardener. He trained in horticulture at RHS Gardens’ Wisley, the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, Jerusalem Botanical Gardens, and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Since 2014 he has been a Garden Advisor to the National Trust at Sissinghurst Castle. In 2013 Dan was the subject of an exhibition at The Garden Museum, London, Green Fuse: The Work of Dan Pearson, and was awarded an OBE in 2022 for services to horticulture. Dan’s books include Spirit: Garden Inspiration (Fuel Publishing, 2011) and Home Ground: Sanctuary in the City (Conran, 2011), and his most recent: Tokachi Millennium Forest: Pioneering a New Way of Gardening With Nature (Filbert Press, 2021). He is a Contributing Editor to Gardens Illustrated magazine and writes his own weekly blog, “Dig Delve.” 

  • Thursday, April 1, 10:00 am – 11:00 am – The Tokachi Millennium Forest, Online

    Thursday, April 1, 10:00 am – 11:00 am – The Tokachi Millennium Forest, Online

    The Tokachi Millennium Forest on Hokkaido, Japan’s northernmost island, is an ecological project with a 1,000-year sustainable vision. Celebrated landscape designer Dan Pearson contributed to the master plan with a sweeping Meadow Garden mixing colorful ornamentals with natives, and a wavelike Earth Garden echoing the mountains beyond. Under the skillful custodianship of head gardener Midori Shintani, Tokachi has evolved to reflect principles at the heart of Japanese culture: observation of seasonal changes, practical tasks performed with care, and the interconnectedness of all living things. Using breathtaking images from their new book, Tokachi Millennium Forest, Pearson and Shintani reveal this remarkable project that bridges East and West and embodies naturalistic gardening at its most inspiring. This New York Botanical Garden online lecture will take place April 1 at 10 am.

    Dan Pearson is renowned worldwide as a designer, horticulturist, and gardener. His many accolades include Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects and five award-winning Chelsea Flower Show gardens, including a 2015 Gold Medal and Best in Show.

    Midori Shintani trained in horticulture and landscape architecture at Minami Kyushu University. Since 2008 she has been head gardener of Tokachi Millennium Forest, merging “new Japanese horticulture” into wild nature.

    $18. Register HERE. Registered students will receive login instructions.

  • Thursday, August 30 – Friday, August 31 – The Beth Chatto Symposium: Ecological Planting in the 21st Century

    On 30-31 August 2018 the Beth Chatto Education Trust will host a special gathering of gardeners, designers and plantspeople in honor of Beth Chatto. Join us at the University of Essex as we hear from speakers from around the world who are re-imagining ecological gardening in both design and practice, and working to further advance and expand our plant palette. A private garden party will also be held at the Beth Chatto Gardens and Nursery for our dear friends and fellow gardeners.

    All proceeds from the Symposium will go to support the work of the Beth Chatto Education Trust. The all-star cast of international speakers includes James Hitchmough, Dan Pearson, Cassian Schmidt, Keith Wiley, Marina Christopher, Olivier Filippi, Asa Gregers-Warg, Peter Janke, Taylor Johnston, Peter Korn, Andi Pettis, and Midori Shintani. For complete costs and information visit https://www.bethchattosymposium.com/

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  • Hortus TV

    Watch garden shows you love. Stream to your tablet, computer, or smart television. Hortus TV is offering a free seven day trial, after which you will be charged $6.99 per month, but you may cancel at any time. Right now hundreds of videos are in the current library, many of which are the eccentric British gardening shows you love, and new content is always being added. No advertisements, which is a plus, although to be fair some of the shows are available on YouTube. Visit www.hortustv.com for more information. Reviews have been positive overall.  Some examples of shows offered are Love Your Garden with Alan Titchmarsh, World of Herbs with Lesley Bremness, Open Gardens,  The Secret World of Gardens, Gardener’s World (seven seasons!),  and Dan Pearson’s Routes Around the World.

  • Reminder: Tuesday, January 19, 7 – 8:30 pm – Spirit: Garden Inspiration

    Dan Pearson is one of the most important and influential landscape designers working today. At the heart of all his gardens lies an unshakable theme – his reverence for the power and delicacy of nature. In this lecture on Tuesday, January 19, beginning at 7 pm at Trinity Church on Copley Square,  Dan will demonstrate his design process, in which he extrapolates on the spirit of place as it emerges through geography, history, architecture, and native flora. Dan will explain how he believes landscapes—both wild and designed—speak to us, how human interventions in the landscape can animate and inform, and how they can serve to memorialize and to heal.
    Fee $20 Arnold Arboretum member, $25 nonmember
    Dan Pearson is a landscape designer with an international reputation for design and planting excellence. His key strengths are horticultural expertise, an informed and intuitive approach to the organization of space, and the practice of ecological and sustainable design principles. Dan trained at Wisley, a Royal Horticultural Society garden, and at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. He is a weekly gardening columnist for The Observer, before which he was a columnist for The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Times. He is co-author of The Essential Garden Book (with Sir Terence Conran) and author of The Garden: A Year at Home Farm. He has presented and appeared in several TV series and has designed five award-winning Chelsea Flower Show gardens. To register, log on to www.arboretum.harvard.edu.

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  • Tuesday, January 19, 7 – 8:30 pm – Spirit: Garden Inspiration

    Dan Pearson is one of the most important and influential landscape designers working today. At the heart of all his gardens lies an unshakable theme – his reverence for the power and delicacy of nature. In this lecture on Tuesday, January 19, beginning at 7 pm at Trinity Church on Copley Square,  Dan will demonstrate his design process, in which he extrapolates on the spirit of place as it emerges through geography, history, architecture, and native flora. Dan will explain how he believes landscapes—both wild and designed—speak to us, how human interventions in the landscape can animate and inform, and how they can serve to memorialize and to heal.
    Fee $20 Arnold Arboretum member, $25 nonmember
    Dan Pearson is a landscape designer with an international reputation for design and planting excellence. His key strengths are horticultural expertise, an informed and intuitive approach to the organization of space, and the practice of ecological and sustainable design principles. Dan trained at Wisley, a Royal Horticultural Society garden, and at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. He is a weekly gardening columnist for The Observer, before which he was a columnist for The Daily Telegraph and The Sunday Times. He is co-author of The Essential Garden Book (with Sir Terence Conran) and author of The Garden: A Year at Home Farm. He has presented and appeared in several TV series and has designed five award-winning Chelsea Flower Show gardens. To register, log on to www.arboretum.harvard.edu.

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