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Tag: Women in Horticulture

  • Wednesday, March 13, 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm – Women in Horticulture, Online

    In this Mt. Cuba Center online lecture, timed to coincide with Women’s History Month, author Jenny Rose Carey gives a historic overview of American women in horticulture and landscape design. Using archival images and the words of the female horticulturists of the time, Jenny paints a picture of a movement that brought women to the forefront of the burgeoning gardening movement in the early part of the twentieth century. Jenny will discuss authors, educators, garden designers, the garden club movement, and conservationists. You might be surprised to learn that the early roots of our passion for native plants and protecting birds was alive and well 110 years ago right here in the Philadelphia region. Learn the names of some of the most incredible horticulturally minded women and their influence on the ways that we garden today. Jenny Rose Carey is a lifelong educator, garden author, and former public garden director. She is a practical, hands-on gardener who gardens on over four acres in Ambler, PA. She is also a garden historian with a specialty in women in gardens, and English and American gardens.

    This program takes place online Wednesday, March 13th, 2024. $19. Register HERE.

  • Saturday, March 7, 9:30 am – Cultivating Place: Women in Horticulture and Place-making

    In this year’s “cultivating women” symposium, we highlight contemporary efforts by women to create, share, and preserve greenspaces for all and will showcase the importance of community spaces in this era of increasing urban and suburban density. Speakers: Jennifer Jewell, Creator/Host, Cultivating Place, NPR Radio Show and Podcast; Garden Writer Kaki Martin, ASLA, PLA, Principal of Klopfer Martin Design Group ; Kristin McCullin, Horticulturist, Allen C. Haskell Public Gardens ; Patricia Spence, President and CEO, The Urban Farming Institute of Boston.

    Fee $50; Register at my.arboretum.harvard.edu or call 617-384-5277.

    Co-sponsored by the Mary M.B. Wakefield Charitable Trust and the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University.

  • Wednesday, December 2 – Friday, December 4 – New England Grows!

    The leading commercial horticulture and green industry show, New England Grows!, has moved to December (last year’s February snows must have discouraged the promoters) and this year will be at the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center, 415 Summer Street, from Wednesday December 2 through Friday December 4. The GROWS experience is unlike anything else in the industry today. The world-class expo and dynamic lineup of learning experiences draw 12,000 professionals from all segments of the green industry to Boston every year. All access tickets are $89, expo only $39.

    There will be a Women in Horticulture Networking Luncheon on Wednesday, December 2 from 12 – 2 at the Lighthouse Room in the Seaport Hotel. Celebrate the power, influence, and entrepreneurial spirit of women in horticulture. In addition to great company, good food, a stellar view of the waterfront, and a few surprises, this popular gathering will feature a conversation with esteemed biologist, author, educator, researcher, Garden Club of the Back Bay speaker, and scientific illustrator Elizabeth Farnsworth. As Senior Research Ecologist at the New England Wild Flower Society, Elizabeth’s most recent report – State of the Plants of New England – is a fascinating treatise on the status of plants and the impact of climate change in our region. Separate ticket price of $50 per person.

    For complete information visit http://www.NewEnglandGrows.org.