The American Horticultural Society will present an online event on November 9 at 2 Eastern. Native plants offer beauty and critical habitat for wildlife while solving landscape problems and promoting regional charm. We’ll explore their benefits and how to use them effectively by understanding garden ecology. Considerations for plant selection, as well as design and stewardship tips using examples from Texas, will fortify you with knowledge to successfully cultivate these plants in traditional or unexpected ways. $30 AHS members, $36 nonmembers. Register at www.ahsgardening.org
Andrea DeLong-Amaya is the Director of Horticulture for the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center’s gardens and nursery programs. With nearly 30 years of experience with native plants in horticulture, ecology, and garden design, she also teaches classes and writes for numerous gardening publications including Taunton’s Fine Gardening, American Public Gardens Association’s Public Garden, and Texas Gardener and Wildflower (the Center’s member magazine). DeLong-Amaya was featured in Jennifer Jewell’s podcast, Cultivating Place, and in her book, The Earth in Her Hands: 75 Extraordinary Women Working in the World of Plants.
We’re tidying up our gardens as we await a cool fall breeze. Then, the brilliant colors of changing leaves start to appear. Autumn is a stunning season, but it’s also a messy one with wilted plants, overgrown weeds and fallen leaves. So, what is a gardener to do? Fall clean-up seems like a lot of work, but it’s actually quite manageable. Public gardening expert Karen Daubmann will guide you through a list of to-do’s to keep your garden in peak condition all year-round. The online presentation takes place October 20 from noon – one pm Eastern.
Karen Daubmann is committed to creating effective and longstanding change to public gardens throughout her 25-year career. She joined Massachusetts Horticultural Society (MHS) in March 2022, where she brings her experience in advancing the operational and planning scale of public gardens. In the development and execution of exhibitions that have welcomed hundreds of thousands of visitors, Daubmann focuses her work on encouraging guests to connect and interact with gardens through art, nature and culture. Prior to joining MHS, she worked for 14 years at the New York Botanical Garden, culminating in her position as vice president for exhibitions and audience engagement. She has been featured in Jennifer Jewell’s The Earth in Her Hands: 75 Extraordinary Women Working in the World of Plantsand has contributed essays for Kusama: Cosmic Nature, 2021 and Frida Kahlo’s Garden, 2015. Daubmann lives and gardens with her husband Matt and dog Klaus in coastal Rhode Island.
This event is presented by GBH in partnership with Massachusetts Horticultural Society. Register HERE.
This virtual Author Talk is presented in collaboration with Berkshire Botanical Garden and Timber Press, an imprint of Workman Publishing. All books will be available for purchase through Tower Hill’s Garden Shop. A link to the Zoom webinar will be sent after registration in the confirmation email. This Author Talk will only be available live. It will not be recorded. Tuesday, May 18, 2021 6-7 PM. Webinar only: $10 members, $12 nonmembers. With signed book, $60 members, $62 nonmembers. Register at www.towerhillbg.org
In her presentation, Jennifer Jewell will explore the philosophy of her Cultivating Place podcast that gardeners and gardens are potentially powerful agents and spaces for positive change in our world, helping to address challenges as wide ranging as climate change, habitat loss, cultural polarization and individual and communal health and well-being. She will go on to explore how this power of gardens and gardeners is exemplified in the beautiful and innovative place-based gardens that celebrate western landscapes in the her book, Under Western Skies; Visionary Gardens from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Coast (Timber Press, May 11, 2021) – with striking photography by Caitlin Atkinson.
Jennifer Jewell is the host of the national award-winning weekly public radio program and podcast Cultivating Place: Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden. She is the author of The Earth in Her Hands, 75 Extraordinary Women Working in the World of Plants (Timber Press in 2020), and Under Western Skies, Visionary Gardens from the Rockies to the Pacific Coast (Timber Press, May 2021). Her greatest passion is elevating the way we think and talk about gardening, the empowerment of gardeners and the possibility inherent in the intersection between culture and gardens.
In her new book, Under Western Skies: Visionary Gardens from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Coast (Timber Press, April 2021), author Jennifer Jewell takes us on a journey to 36 gardens that celebrate the diverse landscapes of the western United States, each of which reflects the very soul of the land on which they grow.
In this April 1 Garden Conservancy webinar, Jennifer will be joined by Wyllie Roderick, one of the garden designers featured in her book, to discuss these gardens, which underscore the strong relationship between garden and place. Wyllie Roderick is an award-winning landscape architect and founding principal of Surfacedesign, Inc. He brings a comprehensive knowledge of plants and years of experience working on both public and private projects. Leading the office’s residential, estate and vineyard design efforts, Roderick integrates his passion for craft and vast knowledge of material construction to inform all phases of the design process.
Jennifer Jewell is the creator and host of public radio’s award-winning weekly program and podcast, Cultivating Place, Conversations on Natural History and the Human Impulse to Garden.She lives and gardens in interior Northern California; The Earth in Her Hands: 75 Extraordinary Women Working in the World of Plants(Timber Press, March 2020) was her first book. Her second, in collaboration with photographer Caitlin Atkinson, Under Western Skies, Visionary Gardens from the Rockies to the Pacific, is due out from Timber Press in late April 2021.
Garden Conservancy educational programs are made possible in part by the generous support of the Coleman and Susan Burke Distinguished Lecture Fund, Lenhardt Education Fund, and the Celia Hegyi Matching Grant, with additional support from Ritchie Battle, Mrs. Camille Butrus, Melissa and John Ceriale, and Susan and William McKinley.
Enjoy a Berkshire Botanical Garden online lecture and Q&A sessionon September 11 at 6 pm with author Jennifer Jewell, about her new book The Earthin Her Hands: 75 Extraordinary Women Working in the World of Plants, available for purchase through BBG’s online shop. Focus in a wholly unique way on how horticulture intersects with our everyday world and on women whose work has enriched and expanded these intersections in the last 25 years. The Earth in Her Hands explores and celebrates how the plant world is improved by greater representation of women and by diversity amongst those women. It chronicles how working in the world of plants is a more viable and creative career path for women than ever before and how the plant-work world is demonstrating greater social and environmental responsibility, in large part due to women’s contributions. These profiles of women from a half a dozen different countries, doing innovative work in all horticultural fields, point to larger issues and shifts in our world. These women’s diverse backgrounds and identities challenge preconceived notions of what horticulturalists and gardeners look like, while their work illustrates how many challenges of our world can be met through cultivating an interdependence with plants.
Jennifer Jewell is the creator and host of Cultivating Place, an award-winning public radio program and podcast on natural history and the human impulse to garden.
As we are moving through these uncertain times, Nantucket Lighthouse School’s Board of Trustees has made the tough decision to postpone the 2020 Nantucket Garden Festival to July 13-15, 2021.
Tjeu are grateful that they will be able to offer the unparalleled line-up of events that was announced for this year next summer, and look forward to welcoming you then. They are thinking about you and your families and hope that you are all well and safe.
The line up will include keynote presenter Christin Geall. Christin Geall is a Canadian floral designer, writer, gardener, photographer, and author of the book Cultivated: Elements of Floral Style (Princeton Architectural Press, 2020). Trained in horticultural at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, she completed a BA in Environmental Studies & Anthropology and a MFA in nonfiction before becoming a gardening columnist for Gardenista, a professor, and designer. Through her company, Cultivated, she teaches floral design in the UK, US, and Canada. Her writing and floral work focuses on the intersections of nature, culture, and horticulture.
A second keynote presenter is Stephen Orr, the Editor-In-Chief of Better Homes and Gardens and Author of The New American Herbaland Tomorrow’s Garden. Orr will be joining us to explore the versatility of herbs in all their beauty and variety.
Orr has been a regularly featured gardening expert on “The CBS Early Show,” “The Martha Stewart Show,” and “The Today Show.” In addition he was a segment producer for the PBS television series “Cultivating Life” and edited two cookbooks by British author Sarah Raven for Rizzoli.
Orr is a featured speaker across the country for organizations such as The Garden Conservancy, The Garden Club of America, the Garden Writers Association, and a variety of national programs.
A third presenter, Jennifer Jewell is the creator/host of Cultivating Place, an award-winning public radio program & podcast on natural history and the human impulse to garden. Her first book, The Earth In Her Hands, 75 Extraordinary Women Working in the World of Plants, centering women transforming horticulture around the world, is published by Timber Press.
Jewell’s writing and photography have been featured in publications including Gardens Illustrated, House & Garden, and Pacific Horticulture. From 2008 – 2016 Jewell created, wrote and hosted the weekly, regionally-focused In a North State Garden on North State Public Radio. From 2010 -2017 she worked as the curatorial assistant to the director and the curator of the native plant garden at Gateway Science Museum on the campus of CSU, Chico in Chico, CA.
Finally, Peggy Cornett is the Historic Gardener and Curator of Plants at Monticello and received the SGHS Flora Ann Bynum Medal for exemplary service in the garden history field and the Garden Club of America’s Zone VII Horticultural Commendation for Horticultural Expertise.
In addition to managing the historic plant collection, Cornett oversees educational programs at Monticello including the Garden and Grounds tour and the Garden Tasting Tours as well as natural history walks, lectures, and horticultural workshops throughout the year. She is the co-director of the Historic Landscape Institute, a unique one-week educational experience in the theory and practice of historic landscape hosted at Monticello.
Cornett also shares her knowledge in horticulture as a frequent guest on NPR and PBS. She also writes articles and lectures nationwide on vegetable gardens and historic plants.
Focus in a wholly unique way on how horticulture intersects with our everyday world, and on women whose work has enriched and expanded these intersections in the last 25 years. The Earth in Her Hands: 75 Extraordinary Women Working in the World of Plants by Jennifer Jewell explores and celebrates how the plant world is improved not only by greater representation of women, but also by diversity amongst those women. It chronicles how working in the world of plants is a more viable and creative career path for women than ever before and how the plant-work world is demonstrating greater social and environmental responsibility, in large part due to women’s contributions. Walking through profiles of women doing current and innovative work in all fields horticultural – botany, environmental science, landscape design and architecture, floriculture, agriculture, social justice, plant seeking and breeding, seed science, gardening, garden writing and garden photography, public garden administration, research, and public policy – we see how they often represent larger issues or shifts in our world. The work of these women illustrates how the many challenges of our world – environmental, economic, cultural/societal, individual – can be met through cultivating an interdependence with plants.
The group of 75 includes representatives from the United States,
England, Ireland, Wales, Canada, Australia, India, and Japan. These
paradigm-shifting women range beautifully across race, ethnicity,
socio-economic and religious backgrounds, sexual orientation, and age –
in a way that transcends preconceived notions of what
horticulture/gardening is and what plantspeople/gardeners look like.
These women and their work have profoundly positive impacts on the
larger world – aesthetically, environmentally, culturally, and
economically – making them joyful and encouraging role models and
inspirations for us all.
Following the March 14 lecture at the Berkshire Botanical Garden in West Stockbridge, there will be a book sale and signing ofThe Earth in Her Hands.
Jennifer Jewell is the creator and host of Cultivating Place, an award-winning public radio program and podcast on natural history and the human impulse to garden.
