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Tag: Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center

  • Friday, October 7, 7:00 pm – Plants & Gardens Happy Hour: Tips and Secrets Webinar

    The American Horticultural Society and GardenComm are partnering to offer virtual classes this fall. This magazine-style Webinar will feature a public garden, two topics, and a “What’s Making Us Smile” piece at the end. Learn from Andrea DeLong-Amaya with the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, Horticulturist and Landscape Designer Claire Jones, Organic Materials Review Institute’s (OMRI) Jacob Mogler and all moderated by expert garden writer and speaker, Kathy Jentz. Register for the October 7th webinar today! All registered will receive a garden-based beverage recipe from Garden Comm mixologist Ellen Zachos, and will be entered to win gift certificates from Brent & Becky’s Bulbs. $15. AHS members free.

    Courtesy Rhubarb & Lavender

  • Tuesday, February 15, 7:00 pm – 8:15 pm – Native Meadows: Let’s Get Real, Online

    Wildflower meadows were introduced to the American gardening public in the 1960’s along with tie dye tee shirts and kaleidoscopic acid trips. But just like those 60’s acid trips, the colors never lasted. Alternatively, by planting site-adapted native perennials, managed according to the ecological processes that govern open field vegetation in the wild, long-lived vibrant meadows can be consistently achieved. In this August 12 online presentation by Larry Weaner, plant selection criteria, planting procedures, and management techniques will be illustrated through a series of residential case studies, including some over two decades old. $25. Register at www.ndal.org

    NDAL (New Directions in the American Landscape) was founded in 1990 by Larry Weaner, and has presented programs throughout the US focusing on innovative theory, practical application, and an expansive vision of “Natural Design.” Programs also draw from a variety of disciplines, including agriculture, anthropology, history, and fine art. In 2016, NDAL received the first Regional Impact Award from the Native Plant Trust. This talk is cosponsored by the American Horticultural Association, the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, and Wild Ones – Native Plants, Natural Landscapes.

  • Thursday, March 11, 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm – The Future of the Past, Online

    For this New Directions in the American Landscape virtual workshop on March 11 from 1 – 2:30, Patricia Klindienst and Clayton Brascoupe will share ideas about how the making of a garden helps maintain and transmit cultural heritage. They will explore the twin imperatives to honor and pass on traditional knowledge of garden and farming practices while healing the land and people estranged from their cultural heritage. $28. Cosponsored by the American Horticultural Society, the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, and Wild Ones – Native Plants, Natural Landscapes. Register at www.ndal.org

    Patricia Klindienst is the author of The Earth Knows My Name: Food, Culture, & Sustainability in the Gardens of Ethnic Americans. Clayton Brascoupe , Mohawk / Anishnabeg/ life long gardener / farmer, began working on family subsistence garden and commercial farms at age 13. Clayton has worked with Akwesasne Notes, at the time was the largest Native Newspaper, with distribution nationally and internationally. Currently farming with family at Pueblo of Tesuque New Mexico, USA Clayton and wife Margaret named their farm Four Sisters Farm after their 4 daughters, where they grow traditional and heirloom crops for food and seed. Clayton is a founding member of and Program Director of the Traditional Native American Farmers Association (TNAFA) a non-profit inter-tribal association of Indigenous farmers, gardeners, educators, and health professionals. TNAFA’s mission is “to revitalize traditional agriculture for spiritual and human need”. Program director of TNAFA develops educational programs to engage Native youth, women, current farmers and those who wish to learn.

  • Wednesday, February 17, 1:00 pm – 2:15 pm – Bird-Friendly Home Landscapes, New England, Online

    What can we do to support birds visiting our homes this spring and beyond? In this online NDAL (New Directions in the American Landscape) workshop on February 17 from 1 – 2:15 pm Eastern time, we will take an in-depth look at native plants that you can plant to make your home more bird-friendly to our year-round residents and those stopping over on their migration journeys. In this workshop, we will explore the importance of choosing native plants and how to select native plants to attract specific birds to your yard. Jillian Bell leads, and the fee is $28. Register at www.ndal.org. The session is cosponsored by the American Horticultural Society, the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, and Wild Ones- Native Plants, Natural Landscapes.

  • Tuesday, February 2, 12:00 noon – 1:30 pm – Navigating Race & Inclusivity in Community Gardens

    Well-meaning people have been organizing since the dawn of the local food movement to create vibrant, urban garden spaces in an effort to build and support their communities. However, these efforts, which are often oriented towards the goal of ameliorating social issues such as lack of access to food and green space for marginalized people, sometimes undermine themselves in terms of equity and inclusivity. How can we ensure that our work as community organizers and gardeners is doing more help than harm? Sama Mirghavameddin, who teaches at University of California, Berkeley, will describe some actions (often unconscious) that can potentially turn an inclusive space into an unwelcoming one, and explore what we can do to create a beautifully diverse garden community. This February 2 webinar, beginning at noon Eastern time, is part of the New Directions in the American Landscape (NDAL) Ecology-Based Landscape Virtual Series, cosponsored with the American Horticultural Society, the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, and Wild Ones – Native Plants, Natural Landscapes. Free, but registration required at www.ndal.org

  • Monday, February 26, 10:00 am – Why Public Gardens?

    Please Join The Trustees for a lively and compelling talk: Why Public Gardens? by noted landscape designer W. Gary Smith, on Monday, February 26, 2018 at 10AM at The French Cultural Center, 53 Marlborough St. in Boston.

    Smith, a designer who creates meaning and artful encounters between people, plants, and the natural world, will present his recent work in public gardens that invite broad audiences for exploration and discovery, and will discuss the Public Gardens initiative at The Trustees.

    His recently completed projects include the Luci and Ian Family Garden at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center, the John C. Wister Rhododendron Garden at Tyler Arboretum, and Ojos y Manos, the ethnobotanical garden at the Santa Fe Botanical Garden. Projects currently in design or construction include the Will C. Curtis Woodland at Garden in the Woods, a new children’s garden at the Tower Hill Botanic Garden, and a master plan for the Toronto Botanical Garden.

    Kindly Respond by February 20. Call: 617.542.7696 (Option 7) or E-mail: development@thetrustees.org to register today!

  • Sunday, April 10, 1:00 pm – Landscaping with Native Plants: Healing Our Home Turf

    Karen Bussolini is a lifelong organic gardener and lover of nature. Her Sunday, April 10 Cape Cod Museum of Natural History presentation is as much about ecological thinking and the importance of recognizing that our yards are part of an ecosystem, as it is about plants. She believes that everything we do on our home turf can heal and support that ecosystem or unknowingly cause damage.

    Karen will show a variety of attractive home landscapes based on natural systems and using native plants, especially shrubs and trees. She will also highlight specific native plants that commonly grow in the Eastern United States and make fine landscape plants, but are often overlooked or cleared to make way for exotic specimens. Readily available native plants that thrive in this region will be highlighted, including plants that are adapted to difficult conditions, such as rocky slopes, poor soil, shade and damp areas.

    Karen has a long career as a garden photographer, speaker and writer, and is a frequent contributor to The American Gardener, the magazine of The American Horticultural Society and Wildflower, published by The Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center. She has six books to her credit, including The Naturescaping Workbook, The Homeowner’s Complete Tree and Shrub Handbook, and Elegant Silvers, which she also co-authored. She is a NOFA Accredited Organic Land Care Professional with an eco-friendly garden coaching practice devoted to teaching homeowners to garden more sustainably. Her focus is on creating healthy yards that are resilient, full of life, diversity and delight.  Book signing and Q&A to follow the presentation, which begins at 1.  Lecture Admission is $10 per person APCC Members $5.  Tickets available online at www.ccmnh.org.

  • Wednesday, October 1 – Application Deadline for Sustainable Landscape Practices Webinar

    The Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center in Austin, Texas, and the United States Botanic Garden in Washington, DC, will coordinate a series of webinars for those interested in teaching others how to create sustainable landscapes.  From October 21 to November 18, the Landscape for Life: Train the Trainers webinars will occur every Tuesday afternoon and will also serve as an open forum for participants.

    Featured topics include healthy soils, effective water management, selection of appropriate plants to create habitat, use of recycled materials, and integrated pest management.  Sustainable practices for a variety of gardens – from large, rural lots to small apartments – will be covered.

    The webinars are part of the Sustainable Sites Initiative, an interdisciplinary program developed as a collaboration between the American Society of Landscape Architects, the US Botanic Garden, and the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center to establish guidelines and benchmarks for sustainable landscape design.  The application deadline is October 1, and prospective participants must be able to attend, in all, five webinars to register.  For more information visit www.landscapeforlife.org.

  • Friday, November 1, 6:45 pm – Ginkgo: An Evolutionary and Cultural Biography

    Dr. Peter Crane, Carl W. Knobloch, Jr. Dean of the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and Professor of Botany, Yale University, will speak on Friday, November 1 on Ginkgo: An Evolutionary and Cultural Biography, at the meeting of the New England Botanical Club in the Haller Lecture Hall (Room 102), Geological Museum, 24 Oxford Street, Cambridge.

    Dean Crane’s work focuses on the diversity of plant life: its origin and fossil history, current status, and conservation and use. From 1992 to 1999 he was director of the Field Museum in Chicago with overall responsibility for the museum’s scientific programs. During this time he established the Office of Environmental and Conservation Programs and the Center for Cultural Understanding and Change, which today make up the Division of Environment, Culture, and Conservation (ECCo). From 1999 to 2006 he was director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, one of the largest and most influential botanical gardens in the world. His tenure at Kew saw strengthening and expansion of the gardens’ scientific, conservation, and public programs. Dean Crane was elected to the Royal Society (the U.K. academy of sciences) in 1998. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, foreign associate of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, and a member of the German Academy Leopoldina. He was knighted in the U.K. for services to horticulture and conservation in 2004. Dean Crane currently serves on the Board of the Global Crop Diversity Trust, the Missouri Botanical Garden, the Chicago Botanic Garden, the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center at the University of Texas, and the Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation.

    For information visit www.rhodora.org.

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  • Saturday, October 9, 9:30 am – 3:30 pm – Designing Gardens with Flora of the American East

    For gardeners of all levels, this program, taking place Saturday, October 9 from 9:30 am – 3:30 pm in the Hunnewell Building of the Arnold Arboretum in Jamaica Plain, provides a comprehensive foundation for garden design using regionally native plants.  Carolyn Summers will present topics including wildlife benefits, sustainable design and maintenance, and strategies for “safe sex in the garden” to reduce the spread of non-native invasive plants.  Participants will learn how to apply basic ecological and design principles in all their gardening endeavors.

    Carolyn Summers is the author of the recently published Designing Gardens with the Flora of the American East and is an adjunct professor for continuing education at Westchester Community College.  She provides technical assistance to the Native Plant Center, an affiliate of the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center.  Please bring your own lunch.  A book sale and author signing will follow the class.  This program is offered by the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University, the New England Wild Flower Society, and the Wellesley College Friends of Horticulture.  $60 for members of one of the affiliated sponsors, or $70 for non-members.  You may register at www.wellesley.edu/WCFH.