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  • Thursday, March 31, 10:30 am – 11:30 am – James Burnett, Envisioning Landscapes, Making the Unseen Seen

    OJB founding partner James Burnett shares the threads that run through the firm’s projects over the past 30 years. Noted for belief that landscape has the power to transform cities and strengthen communities, and commitment to addressing issues of access, equity, and health in their public spaces, OJB is the winner of the 2020 National Design Award for Landscape Architecture from the Cooper-Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. Notable projects include Klyde Warren Park in Dallas, one of the first highway capping deck parks; the community-centric Levy Park in Houston; and the Sunnylands Center and Gardens in Rancho Mirage, California, a desert botanical garden. He will share some of the unseen drivers that mark the work, including innovative sustainability features and green infrastructure solutions.

    James Burnett, FASLA, has dedicated his career to revitalizing communities by creating meaningful spaces that challenge the conventional boundaries of landscape architecture. He is a distinguished Fellow of the ASLA and a 2016 recipient of the ASLA Design Medal. His new book, Envisioning Landscapes (Monacelli Press/Phaidon), explores the threads of ecology, site, and vision manifested in OJB’s garden and landscape work.

    The New York Botanical Garden is sponsoring this March 31 lecture at the Ross Lecture Hall at the NYBG, 2900 Southern Boulevard in the Bronx. They are in the process of working on a hybrid, online option for their Winter Lecture Series, so if you are interested in hearing this talk, email adulted@nybg.org or call 718-817-8720. $32 for NYBG members, $35 for nonmembers.

  • Saturday, February 26, 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm – Clean Composting, Online

    Compost is the answer to most soil problems, such as compaction, poor water-holding ability and low fertility. In this Berkshire Botanical Garden online class on February 26 at 12:30 pm with instructor Daryl Beyers, students will discover why compost is the key to gardening sustainably and how to use it effectively to improve their garden ground to grow healthy plants. Learn the basics of composting and the techniques to create your own compost at home, using bins, tumblers, heaps or pits or directly on garden beds. Daryl Beyers is the author of The New Gardener’s Handbook: Everything you need to know to grow a beautiful and bountiful garden, available from Timber Press. As gardening certificate program coordinator at the New York Botanical Garden, he helps guide the program’s curriculum and teaches popular gardening classes. Daryl has more than twenty-five years of professional landscaping experience, specializing in residential garden design and development. As a staff writer, photographer and editor for Fine Gardening magazine, he authored two special issues on garden design and served as a contributing garden editor for Martha Stewart Living. His articles on gardening and garden design have also appeared in Horticulture and HGTV Magazine.    Register at www.berkshirebotanical.org

  • Wednesday, February 23, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm – Effective Solutions for Dealing with Deer, Online

    The second of Innisfree Garden’s 2022 Roots of Inspiration webinar series will take place February 23 with Brad Roeller.

    Innisfree trustee Brad Roeller believes that by learning about the environmental and biological factors which influence deer and their food choices, homeowners and professionals can implement informed strategies for deer-proofing their landscapes. Drawing on over forty years of gardening in deer country and his findings in the Deer Browse Garden he created at the Cary Institute funded by a ten-year grant from Cornell, Brad will share hard-won lessons on how to deter deer from browsing ornamental plants. Over the course of his career, Brad has evaluated hundreds of popular herbaceous and woody ornamentals. He will share those plants showing any inherent resistance to deer plus his top picks from the plethora of products, gadgets, and methods intended to discourage deer from foraging in landscape plantings. This talk will also examine how historic and current land use trends impact deer densities and look at the ramifications of high deer populations.

    Retired but actively involved in planning for and managing the Innisfree landscape, Brad Roeller offers a wealth of ideas and expertise to gardeners at every level. Over the past forty years, he has held top horticultural positions at the Cary Institute of Ecosystems Studies, the New York Botanical Garden, and a storied private estate, has published widely, and has been teaching at NYBG and other major institutions. Reflecting his own interests, his research has focused on ecologically-driven and sustainable landscape practices, gardening in areas with high deer populations, and landscape plants for Northern gardens.

    Free for Innisfree members, $15 for nonmembers. Register HERE.

  • Thursday, February 24, 10:30 am – 11:30 am – Claudia West: Rebuilding Abundance

    Our cities and suburbs desperately need more inspiring, ecologically rich planting. Yet budgets are tight, and crews and gardeners are often unfamiliar with more diverse planting typologies. Claudia West will share the scientific models and hands-on techniques her landscape architecture firm, Phyto Studio, applies to tackle the maintenance challenge and create rich and stable planting. Come away with a new understanding of planting design and management, as well as a practical tool set for your next garden challenge.

    Claudia West, ASLA, is a leading voice in the field of ecological planting design. A widely sought speaker and consultant, she has worked as designer, grower, installer, and land manager-grounding innovative work in pragmatic solutions that address the realities of our urbanizing world. West holds a Master’s in Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning from the Technical University of Munich and is co-author of the critically acclaimed Planting in a Post-Wild World.

    The New York Botanical Garden is sponsoring this February 24 lecture at the Ross Lecture Hall at the NYBG, 2900 Southern Boulevard in the Bronx. They are in the process of working on a hybrid, online option for their Winter Lecture Series, so if you are interested in hearing this talk, email adulted@nybg.org or call 718-817-8720. $32 for NYBG members, $35 for nonmembers.

  • Thursday, January 27, 10:30 am – Kate Orff: Mending the Landscape, Revised and Online!

    For Kate Orff, landscape architects must do more than “beautify”-they must help reset ecosystems to reconnect people to each other through ecological-social design. In her firm’s signature projects-from the $60 million Living Breakwaters barrier reef and shoreline restoration project off Staten Island, to Atlanta’s Chattahoochee RiverLands, to Resilient Boston Harbor Vision-she’s also spearheading an approach to climate resilience that says we should build with nature, not just in it.

    Kate Orff, RLA, FASLA, is founding principal of SCAPE. Through her publications, activism, research, and complex, creative collaborations, she focuses on retooling the practice of landscape architecture relative to the uncertainty of climate change and creating spaces to foster social life. In 2017, Orff was the first landscape architect awarded the MacArthur “Genius Grant,” and in 2019 she received a National Design Award and was elevated to the ASLA Council of Fellows.

    The New York Botanical Garden is sponsoring this January 27 lecture which was to have taken at the Ross Lecture Hall at the NYBG, 2900 Southern Boulevard in the Bronx. Due to Covid concerns, the event will now be online. For more information, email adulted@nybg.org or call 718-817-8720. $32 for NYBG members, $35 for nonmembers. You may enroll online HERE.

  • Sunday, January 23, 10:00 am – 1:00 pm – A Kitchen Garden Plan, Online

    Devote special new space for herbs, vegetables, fruits, and flowers for cutting. Get design inspirations for planning your own kitchen garden and discover tried-and-true small trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants best suited to your site. Explore annuals and perennials, herbs for tea and culinary uses, and great ways to include both classic and novelty vegetables. Winter is a great time to start planning with this New York Botanical Garden online course on January 23 from 10 – 1. $55 for NYBG members, $59 for nonmembers. Register HERE.

  • Thursday, January 27, 7:00 pm – Conversations with Great American Gardeners: Michael Balick, Online

    The American Horticultural Society is excited to launch a new virtual speaker series featuring current and past Great American Gardeners Award Winners and Book Award Winners. Since 1953, the AHS has been recognizing and celebrating horticultural champions that represent the best in American gardening. In a lively and engaging conversational format, speakers will share their knowledge and experience with our event host, Holly Shimizu, gardener to gardener. Holly Shimizu is a nationally recognized horticulturist with a rich background in public gardens and garden communication.

    On January 27 at 7 pm, Holly will speak with Michael Balick. A world renowned ethnobotanist at the New York Botanical Garden (NYBG), Michael J. Balick, Ph.D., works with indigenous cultures to document plant diversity, preserve knowledge about traditional uses for plants, and help these communities sustainably manage their resources. In the course of this work, he evaluates the potential of these botanical resources for broader medical or pharmaceutical applications. His most recent project focuses on the tropical Pacific Islands in Micronesia and Melanesia, where he is documenting the diversity, local use, and management of plant resources in support of a region-wide conservation plan. Balick is currently vice president for botanical science at NYBG, where he has worked since 1980. He is also director and senior philecology curator of the NYBG Institute of Economic Botany, which he cofounded in 1981. $10 for AHS members, $20 for nonmembers. Register at www.ahsgardening.org.

  • Tuesday, January 18, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm- The Modern Cottage Garden, Online

    UK-based garden writer Greg Loades offers a fresh approach to garden design, fusing classic English cottage style with the new perennial movement. Using lush images of big, colorful blooms combined with striking grasses and native plants, Loades will illustrate practical insights into what The Telegraph calls his “secret technique that opens up a world of nostalgia for gardeners with small spaces.” This New York Botanical Garden online lecture will take place January 18 from 1 – 2, and is $26. Register at www.nybg.org.

    Greg Loades is the author of The Modern Cottage Garden, named one of 2020’s top books by Gardens Illustrated. He contributes to Kew, Landscape, Bloom, and Garden News and has served as an editor for both BBC Gardeners’ World Magazine and The English Garden.

  • Wednesdays, January 5 – February 9, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm – Fundamentals of Gardening, Online

    Explore the basic principles underlying successful, environmentally friendly gardening, including the structure and physiological processes of plants and their relationships to the settings in which they grow. Students learn not only what to do, but why. Topics include soils and their improvement, seed sowing, vegetative propagation, planting, pruning, watering, weeding, mulching, and disease and pest control. This online New York Botanical Garden class takes place January 5 – February 9 from 6 – 8, and is taught by Daryl Beyers. NYBG members $295, nonmembers $325. Register at www.nybg.org. Recommended text: The New Gardener’s Handbook: Everything You Need to Know to Grow a Beautiful and Bountiful Garden, Daryl Beyers.

  • Wednesday, December 15, 11:00 am – 1:00 pm – Floratopia, Online

    Landscape designer Jan Johnsen’s newest book, Floratopia, reveals how to combine annual and perennial flowers for color and seasonal interest, while attracting pollinators. She revisits the beloved classic blooms along with the latest hardy varieties. An engaging writer and speaker, Jan Johnsen has been in the landscape design and horticulture professions for over four decades. She has worked in Kenya, Japan, Hawaii and across the US. She was awarded the 2019 Award of Distinction by the Association of Professional Landscape Designers (APLD). Her books include Spirit of Stone, Gardentopia and the 2021 Floratopia. Join her for an up-close-and- personal look at some private flower gardens that both inspire and benefit our ecosystem. The New York Botanical Garden online talk will take place December 15 at 11 am, and is $55 for NYBG members, $49 for nonmembers. Register at www.nybg.org.