Horticultural Lectures

2023

• January 18: Sue Milliken and Kelly Dodson—Far Reaches: Exploration and Conservation Inform Garden Design
• February 15: Patterson Webster—Timelines: Glen Villa's Quest to Make History Visible through Design
• March 29: The Curious Plantsman: Matt Mattus—Challenging Convention: Plant Trials by Design

2022

• January 19: Ching-Fang Chen—New Aesthetics for Public Spaces
• February 16: James Golden—The View From Federal Twist: A New Way of Thinking About Gardens, Nature and Ourselves
• March 30: Liman Cheng—Little Island—A Garden Rises

2021

• February 17: Matthew Reese—Malverleys, Making and Maintaining an English Flower Garden
• March 24: Eric Hsu—Uprooted: The Untold Story of Japanese American Influence on American Gardens
• April 14: Fergus Garrett—Wild at Dixter

2020

• January 22: Barbara Paul Robinson—Heroes of Horticulture
• February 19: Ngoc Minh Ngo—To Look at Things in Bloom, Photographing Gardens
  
• March 25: Uziel Crescenzi—Chance Encounters of a Young Gardener *
  

2019

• January 23: Colin Cabot—Growing Up Under the Influence
• February 20: Lisa Roper—The Design Evolution of the Gravel Garden
• March 20: Coralie Thomas—The Evolution of a Young Gardener

2018

• January 17: Deborah Needleman in conversation with Sarah Ryhanen and Jenny Elliott—The Farm to Garden Movement: Influencing American Gardens from the Ground Up
• February 21: Sarah Raven—The Cutting Garden
• March 21: Timothy Young—Paper Trails: Writers and Gardens in the Archives

2017

• January 18: Bill Noble—The Gardens of Cornish Colony, Where Classic Gardens Took Root in America
• February 15: David Fried—Fruits You Only Dreamed You Could Grow
• March 15 : Jack Staub—Hortulus Farm: An American Story

2016

• January 20: Quill Teal-Sullivan—Finding My Way: Working Helena’s Gardens at Meadowburn Farm
• February 17: Marta McDowell—The Pen and the Trowell: Authors, Their Gardens and Mine
• March 18: Katherine Tracey—Succulent Love

2015

• January 21: Marco Polo Stufano—Looking Back: Wave Hill at 50
• February 18: Ulrich Lorimer—Locally Sourced – Marrying Field Botany and Horticulture
• March 18: Ed Bowen—Where Have All the Flowers Gone?

2014

• January 22: Louis Bauer—Greenwood Gardens: Transforming a Country House into a Public Place for Horticulture
• February 19: Margery L. Daughtrey—Dreadful Diseases Dangling Over Old Faithful Ornamentals
• March 19: William Cullina—What Do You Mean I’m Not a Perennial!?! Native Shrubs and Small Trees for Perennial Companionship

2013

• January 23: Stephen F. Byrns & Timothy Tilghman—Untermyer, America’s Greatest Forgotten Garden
• February 27: Annie Novak—The Future of Farming
• March 21: Jason Eslamieh—Boswellias of the World

2012

• January 18: Larry J. Wente—Country Life: Integrating Architecture and Landscape Design
• February 22: Barbara Paul Robinson—Rosemary Verey: Queen of Horticulture
• March 21: Thomas L. Woltz—Restoration Ecology in Private Estate Gardens

2011

• January 19: John A. Gwynne & Mikel Folcarelli—The Rakes’ Progress: The Evolution of a Garden
• February 23: Frances Palmer—Throwing Pots and Raising Dahlias: My Life in a Connecticut Garden
• March 16: Margaret Roach—At Home in My 365-Day Garden

2010

• January 20: Patrick Cullina—Elevated Pulse: Examining the High Line’s Dynamic and Emerging Landscape
• February 24: Stephen Orr—Smart Gardens: Getting More with Less
• March 17: Dominique Browning—Slow Love: Making a New Garden – and a New Life

2009

• January 21: Mick Hales—Catch the Eye
• February 25: William Bryant Logan—Oak: The Frame of Civilization
• March 18: Tom Pritchard—Madderlake: Escaping Flowerland – Landscape Design beyond the Garden

2008

• January 30: Patricia Jonas—Constant Gardens: 500 Years of Plants in Art
• February 27: Alexander Reford—Jardins de Metis: Making an Historic Garden Hip
• March 19: Pepe Maynard—Portrait of a Garden

2007

• January 24: James David—Beyond Thorns and Rattlesnakes: Gardening in Texas
• February 28: Kenneth I. Helphand—Defiant Gardens: Making Gardens in Wartime
• March 22: Nancy Goslee Power—Designing Gardens in California

2006

• January 25: John Danzer—Confessions of The Exterior Decorator™
• February 22: Topher Delaney—Digging In: The Garden as a Personal Metaphor
• March 26: Bunny Williams—An Affair with A Garden

2005

• January 26: Edwina von Gal—A Plant Lover’s Adventures in Discipline
• February 23: Pearl Fryar—Topiary as Art
• March 26: Eliot Coleman—Fresh Food from the Garden

2004

• January 28: Deborah Nevins—The Grammar of Landscape
• February 25: Jenks Farmer—Country Gardens in South Carolina
• March 24: Tom Armstrong—Interpreting a Garden Through Art

2003

• January 29: Ken Druse—Trowels and Tribulations of an Island Garden
• February 26: Margaret Roach—A Homemade Garden
• March 26: C. Colston Burrell—Nature Meets Zone Denial

2002

• January 24: Robin Zitter—Stewardship of the Land
• February 21: Lillabeth Wies—Conserving a Public Trust
• March 14: Maurice Horn

2001

• January 25: Daniel Hinkley of Heronswood, Kingston, WA
• February 22: Robert Dash of Madoo, Sagaponack, NY
• March 22: Frank Cabot of Les Quatre Vents, La Malbaie, Quebec, Canada • April 19: Marco Polo Stufano of Wave Hill, Bronx, NY
• May 16: Christopher Lloyd and Fergus Garrett of Great Dixter, East Sussex, England

2000

• January 27: Charles Price and Glenn Withey—Taming the Collector Within
• February 24: Jim Adams —Gardening in the Fast Lane...with a Few Detours
• March 23: Lauren Springer —Creating a Resonant Garden - Blending Both the Natural and the Personal Landscape

1999

• January 28: Claire Sawyers—The Trials and Tribulations of a Suburban Gardener
• February 25: J-P Malocsay —Catching the Dream and Taking It Home: Learning from Gardens Greater Than Your Own

1998

• January 29: John Gwynne —Designing for Collections
• February 26: Kris and Dan Benarcik—Containers: Adding Character to a City Street
• March 26: Thomas Cooper—The Garden at 2 Brigham Street

1997

• January 30: Kathryn Pufahl—Unusual Annuals and Non-Hardy Plants for City and Country Gardens
• February 27: Hitch Lyman —French Lilacs, Wild Peonies, Snowdrops, and the Lesser Celandine - The Toys I'm Collecting
• March 27: Jeff Mendoza—The Problems and Pleasures of Gardening: Urban Rooftops to Country Gardens

1996

• January 25: Daniel Hinkley —The Making and Re-Making of Heronswood • February 29: Dr. Nicklas Nickou—Available but Unused
• March 21: Joanna McQuail Reed—55 Years in a Garden

1995

• January 26: Penelope Maynard—From the Mountains of Kenya to the Gardens of New York
• February 23: Donna Huse and Jim Sears—Portuguese Gardens at Home in New England
• March 23: Jamaica Kincaid—From the Island of Antigua to a Garden in Vermont

1994

• January 27: Kim Mulcahy—The Search for Signs of Provocative Plants in the Universe
• February 24: Robert Dash—The Making of Madoo
• March 31: Bill and Erika Shank —It Doesn't Just Happen—A Garden Twelve Years in the Making

1993

• January 28: Patti Hagan, Anne Raver, Margaret Roach—Seedbeds of Garden Writing
• February 25: Lalitte and Howell Scott and Suzanne Frutig Bales—Alpines: Magnificent Terrace Miniatures/As the Garden Grows, So Does the Gardener
• March 25: Geoffrey Charlesworth and Norman Singer—Gardening without Help

1992

• January 28: Jean Paul Carlhian—The Genesis of the Design of the Enid Haupt Garden
• February 25: Dr. Steven Spongberg—E. H. Wilson: A Life of Plant Exploration
• March 24: David Murbach—The Art of Making Drama in Small Spaces

1991

• January 16: Marco Polo Stufano—Ceramics in the American Garden
• February 6: Dr. J.C. Raulston—New Plants for Our Gardens
• March 6: Roger Kline—Vegetables: from Heirloom to Avant-Garde—for City Terrace and Country Garden

1990

• February 27: Francis H. Cabot—A Plantsman's Canadian Garden
• March 27: Helen Dillon—A Dublin City Garden
• April 17: Barron H. Bohnet—Whitemarsh Hall

1989

• January 31: Peter Del Tredici—The Art and Science of Pruning
• February 28: Marco P. Stufano—Plants and Places of Interest, Random Ramblings of a Gardener
• March 28: Dr. Arthur Tucker—In Search of Antique Plants
• October 12: Dr. Charles Nelson—A Heritage of Beauty: Irish Gardens and their Plants

1987

• January 22: Allen Paterson—Pictures in the Garden: The Art of Plant Association
• February 5: Paula Deitz—The Abby AIdrich Rockefeller Garden
• April 2: Rick Darke Ornamental Grasses Rediscovered: Superb Late-Season Perennials for Today's Gardens

1986

• February 27: Oriel Eaton Kriz—Plants Portrayed: The Art, Science, and Techniques of Botanical Illustration
• March 20: Barry R. Yinger— Korean Plants for American Gardens
• April 10: Marco Polo Stufano—Garden Design: A Plantsman's Approach

1984

• John Sales—Garden Advised, The National Trust (England)

1981

• September 16: Rosemary Verey—Great English Woman Gardeners Since 1700

1979

• Marco Polo Stufano—The Gardens of Wave Hill through the Seasons

* Canceled due to Covid-19