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  • Tuesday, May 18, 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm – Gardens as Agents of Change, Online

    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.



  • Thursday, April 1, 2:00 pm – Under Western Skies, Online

    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. 

    Please note that registration will end 24 hours prior to this webinar.
    $5 Garden Conservancy members – webinar only
    $15 General admission – webinar only
    $35 Webinar and one copy of Under Western Skies book (to be released and shipped in late April)

    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.