Join Us for a New Season of Lectures & Talks
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Spring is just around the corner, and we're bringing you a whole new season of insightful lectures and discussions centered on our favorite topic—plants! Join us and our guest speakers as we dive into a variety of topics, including conservation, landscaping, citizen science, and more. Check below for our full lineup.
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The Tree Dialogues
March 7 & 13; May 21
With the world’s forests under increasing threat, this series features award-winning and best-selling authors, including Richard Powers (The Overstory), Peter Wohlleben (The Secret Wisdom of Nature), Maria Popova (Figuring), Bill Logan (Sproutlands), and Robin Wall Kimmerer (Braiding Sweetgrass), for compelling conversations about the many ways we can learn from, protect, and live with trees and the natural world. Learn more.
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Beatrix Farrand’s American Landscapes
Friday, March 15; 10:30 a.m.–12 p.m.
Watch the world premiere of a new documentary exploring the innovative ideas of Beatrix Farrand, a distinctive American voice in landscape design, and listen to a panel discussion about her work with Lynden B. Miller, Stephen Ives, John Beardsley, and Peter Crane. Learn more.
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Margaret Roach: A Way to Garden
Thursday, March 28; 10–11:30 a.m.
Join us for the final installment of our 2019 Winter Lecture Series, featuring gardener and author Margaret Roach. At her home in the Hudson Valley, the birds taught her to truly garden, offering a window into natural
sciences and organic practices, and she strives to create a 365-day
garden to sustain them—and herself. The 2.3-acre place juxtaposes
habitat-style and collector plantings, the latter emphasizing foliage,
including much that is large or gold. Learn more.
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John Gwynne:
Sakonnet Garden: Current Design Experiments
Tuesday, March 19; 1 p.m.
Sakonnet
Garden is a long-term personal experiment with plants and planting
design. While working in New York, John Gwynne and his partner, Mikel
Folcarelli, built a hidden garden in coastal Rhode Island that evolved
into a series of intimate garden rooms, each reflecting an experimental
approach to light, space, color, rare plants, and whimsical discovery.
Gwynne will share the outside-the-box design and
horticultural objectives behind his admittedly "eccentric labor of
love." Register.
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250th Anniversary of Alexander von Humboldt with Andrea Wulf
Friday, April 19; 10:30 a.m.–12 p.m.
To mark the 250th Anniversary of this seminal naturalist, Andrea Wulf returns to the Garden with artist Lillian Melcher to introduce The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, an evocative graphic novel. Learn more.
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Exhibition Symposium: Roberto Burle Marx—A Total Work of Art
Friday, June 7; 10:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
Held in conjunction with the Garden-wide exhibition The Living Art of Roberto Burle Marx, this symposium explores the genre-spanning creativity of this Brazilian modernist master, celebrating his work as an innovative artist, landscape architect, and conservationist. Learn more.
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