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SUMMARY:Gardens of the Gilded Age by Jana Milbocker | Lecture & Lunch
DESCRIPTION:During the Gilded Age in America (1870-1920)\, wealthy industrialists\, such as the Vanderbilts\, Rockefellers\, and Gardeners\, built extravagant homes and gardens that rivaled the palaces and villas of Europe. Gardens of the Gilded Age showcases a selection of estates all down the East Coast\, diving into their histories and the elements that make them striking and unique. Each garden profile includes enticing information about the estate’s owners\, history\, and the evolution of the garden\, including significant plants and architectural features. Enjoy beautiful color photographs of the gardens and mansions\, augmented by historic photos of the owners and the gardens when they were first built. Along the way\, learn the Gilded Age intriguing garden history\, its international movement\, and the associated trends. \nJana Milbocker is an avid gardener\, designer\, speaker\, and author. She combines horticulture\, design\, and travel tips to educate\, inspire and delight both new and seasoned gardeners. Jana loves to visit gardens and historic sites and share her trips through her books\, photos and blog. She is the author of garden travel guides to the Mid-Atlantic\, New England and Florida\, and has lectured at a multitude of flower shows\, horticultural societies\, garden clubs\, and libraries. Jana also organizes tours to beautiful gardens in the U.S. and abroad. Jana is the owner of Enchanted Gardens\, a landscape design firm in the Boston area. \nLecture & Lunch: $50 / Book: Gardens of the Gilded Age ($39.95) — Pre-order at: enchantedgardensdesign.com\n  \n  \nClick HERE to Purchase Tickets \n 
URL:https://elizabethparkct.org/event/gardens-of-the-gilded-age-lecture/
LOCATION:Pond House\, 1555 Asylum Avenue\, West Hartford\, CT\, 06117
CATEGORIES:Garden Lectures
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SUMMARY:Nature’s Pharmacy: How Modern Remedies Are Derived from the Natural World by Dayne Laskey | Lecture & Lunch
DESCRIPTION:Dayne Laskey\, PharmD\, DABAT is a professor\, practicing pharmacist\, and clinical toxicologist based in West Hartford\, Connecticut. He actively cares for patients at Hartford Hospital\, where he helps diagnose and treat poisonings and adverse effects from medications\, plants\, chemicals\, and environmental exposures. Dr. Laskey is also the founder and curator of the University of Saint Joseph Medicine Garden at Elizabeth Park\, which houses over 30 species of medicinal plants\, many of which have contributed directly to the development of modern pharmaceuticals. \nLecture & Lunch: $50\n\n  \nClick HERE to Purchase Tickets 
URL:https://elizabethparkct.org/event/natures-pharmacy-how-modern-remedies-are-derived-from-the-natural-world-by-dayne-laskey-lecture-lunch/
LOCATION:Pond House\, 1555 Asylum Avenue\, West Hartford\, CT\, 06117
CATEGORIES:Garden Lectures
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SUMMARY:Bringing the Outdoors Inside and Onto Your Windowsill by Tovah Martin | Lecture\, Lunch & Book Signing
DESCRIPTION:What do you love most about the garden? Is it the lushness of greenery? Do you enjoy the scents? Is it the textural interplay? Or maybe what means most to you is the sense of nurturing nature. This lecture talks about bringing the essence of what you love about the garden inside and onto your windowsill. Amazingly\, many outdoor garden plants love sharing our homes indoors. Tovah describes garden plants that can successfully make the leap from garden to windowsill as well as tropicals that capture the mood. She talks about how to host garden plants\, creating a scene\, adding the elements\, and crafting vignettes that reflect our favorite moments outside. This is fun and fulfilling\, it’s creative\, and it will bring everything you treasure about the garden into the heart of your home. \nIn her constant\, undying pursuit of all things garden- related\, Tovah Martin gets her hands dirty both outside and indoors. She is a perennial\, heirloom\, vegetable and cottage gardener of fanatical proportions\, and is accredited with NOFA as an Organic Land Care Professional. Beyond the garden outdoors\, Tovah’s areas of specialty also include decades of experience with houseplants (she grows over 200 in her home). That passion for gardening indoors led to her many books. Most recently\, a new title was added to her book publications; Gold Medal award winning The Garden in Every Sense and Season (Timber Press\, 2018) describes how your garden can kindle the senses on all layers to become more meaningful. The newest publication is added to more than a dozen titles that Tovah has authored\, including The Indestructible Houseplant\, The Unexpected Houseplant\, The New Terrarium\, and Tasha Tudor’s Garden. \nFor her writing\, Tovah was awarded The Garden Club of America’s award for outstanding literary achievement and an Honorary Membership in The Garden Club of America. In 2013\, she received the Gustav Mehlquist Award—the highest honor bestowed by the Connecticut Horticultural Society. And in 2019\, The Garden in Every Sense and Season won the Gold Medal from Garden Communicators International. \n  \nLecture\, Lunch & Book Signing: $50\n\n  \nBOOKS\n\n The Garden in Every Sense & Season- $18.03\n\nThe Unexpected Houseplant – $24.41 \n\n\n\nClick HERE to Purchase Tickets & Books
URL:https://elizabethparkct.org/event/tovah-martin-lecture/
LOCATION:Pond House\, 1555 Asylum Avenue\, West Hartford\, CT\, 06117
CATEGORIES:Garden Lectures
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SUMMARY:Gardening for the Birds by Page Dickey | Lecture & Lunch
DESCRIPTION:By weaving native perennials\, shrubs\, and trees into our gardens\, we are restoring habitats that welcome a rich variety of birds. Page Dickey will talk about the plants she particularly likes to grow to attract birds\, including a number of natives that are considered herbs. \nPage has been gardening passionately since her early twenties\, and writing about gardening\, as well as designing gardens for others\, for the last three decades. She has written eight books and edited another. Most of her books concentrate on aspects of garden design. \nPage was the editor of the book Outstanding American Gardens\, celebrating 25 years of the Garden Conservancy with photographs by Marion Brenner. She lectures around the country about plants and garden design\, and has written many articles for magazines over the years. \nHer new book\, Uprooted: A Gardener Reflects on Beginning Again\, describes leaving a beloved garden of thirty-four years\, finding a home in the northwest corner of Connecticut\, and falling in love with its land. Page knew the transitions she faced walking away from her celebrated garden at Duck Hill. What surprised her were the happy opportunities that came with starting over. Uprooted follows Page’s evolution from old to new\, cultivated to wild\, and from one type of gardener to another. It is a story for anyone who has had to begin anew – in gardening or in life. \nPage is a Director Emeritus of the Garden Conservancy and is one of the two founders of its Open Days Program\, and serves on the board of several garden non-profits. She was recently elected as an Honorary Member of The Garden Club of America. \n\nThis lecture is sponsored by the Brinley Speakers Fund of The Connecticut Unit of the Herb Society of America.\n\nLecture\, & Lunch: $50\nBOOKS\n\n\nPage Dickey’s books are currently unavailable. We apologize for the inconvenience.\n\n\nClick HERE to Purchase Tickets
URL:https://elizabethparkct.org/event/gardening-for-the-birds-lecture/
LOCATION:Pond House\, 1555 Asylum Avenue\, West Hartford\, CT\, 06117
CATEGORIES:Garden Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250423T110000
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SUMMARY:The Garden World of Jane Austen
DESCRIPTION:Lecture & Lunch $48 \nBOOKS \n\nThe Garden Tourist’s New England $26.95\nThe Garden Tourist’s Florida $24.95\nThe Garden Tourist’s Mid-Atlantic $25.95\n\nJane Austen loved gardens. She had a keen interest in flowers and kitchen gardening\, and described gardens in her novels and letters. Learn about the flowers and gardens of Jane Austen’s world – from her personal cottage garden to the grand estates that she visited and wove into her novels. \nJana Milbocker is a garden designer\, lecturer\, and writer. She combines horticulture\, design\, and travel tips to educate\, inspire\, and delight both new and seasoned gardeners. Jana loves to visit gardens and historic sites in the US and abroad and to share her trips through her books\, photos\, and blog. She has written four garden travel guides and also organizes and hosts group garden tours in the US and abroad. Jana is the owner of Enchanted Gardens\, a landscape design firm in the Boston area. \n\n  \nClick HERE to Purchase Tickets & Books
URL:https://elizabethparkct.org/event/the-garden-world-of-jane-austen/
LOCATION:Pond House\, 1555 Asylum Avenue\, West Hartford\, CT\, 06117
CATEGORIES:Garden Lectures
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SUMMARY:A Journey into the World of Peonies
DESCRIPTION:Lecture & Lunch $48 \nDaniel Furman of Cricket Hill Garden in Thomaston\, CT will dive into the diverse world of peonies. From their roots as medicinal plants in China and Europe\, to symbols of wealth and prestige in Imperial China\, and finally to a perennial suitable for almost any landscape today\, peonies hold a special place in the hearts of gardeners the world over. Dan’s talk will intertwine the rich history of this storied plant with the less-than-glamorous saga of learning how to build a specialty peony nursery on a rocky hillside in Connecticut. Dan will also share practical advice on growing great peonies in New England\, including cultivar and site selection\, fertilization and disease control. \nDaniel Furman is co-owner of Cricket Hill Garden\, a second generation specialty nursery and forest farm in Thomaston\, CT. Since joining the business in 2010\, he has worked to expand the peony production program at the nursery\, as well as diversify the stock grown to include unusual landscape and forest edibles. \n  \nClick HERE to Purchase Tickets
URL:https://elizabethparkct.org/event/you-should-turn-it-into-a-subdivision-a-35-year-journey-into-the-world-of-peonies/
LOCATION:Pond House\, 1555 Asylum Avenue\, West Hartford\, CT\, 06117
CATEGORIES:Garden Lectures
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SUMMARY:A New Light: Reimagining the Sue B. Hart Perennial Garden at Elizabeth Park
DESCRIPTION:Lecture & Lunch $48 \nLisa and Vanessa will address challenges\, changes\, and surprises that they faced along the way\, and their visions of the future of the Sue B. Hart Perennial Garden as it naturalizes and matures. \nLisa Stamm Booher has been designing gardens for nearly 50 years\, first in New York City\, and for the last 40 years on the east end of Long Island. She founded The Homestead Garden & Design with her late husband\, Dale Booher. She expresses her unique perspective and vision through gardens exhibiting structure\, texture\, and compelling plant selection. \nVanessa Booher Parsons is the daughter of Lisa and Dale and has been a partner at the Homestead for seven years. She has designed and installed gardens showcasing the diversity and dynamism of plants native to the East Coast of the US. She embraces a natural looking\, low maintenance style garden that helps strengthen local ecosystems\, while exhibiting multi-season interest. \n\n  \nClick HERE to Purchase Tickets
URL:https://elizabethparkct.org/event/a-new-light-reimagining-the-perennial-garden-at-elizabeth-park/
LOCATION:Pond House\, 1555 Asylum Avenue\, West Hartford\, CT\, 06117
CATEGORIES:Garden Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250326T110000
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SUMMARY:Herb Liberation!
DESCRIPTION:Lecture\, Lunch & Book Signing $48 / The Homeowner’s Complete Tree and Shrub Handbook $31.85 \nHerbs are such beautiful plants\, useful in the garden as well as the kitchen\, so why sequester them in the herb garden? You can use herbs throughout the landscape\, in flower gardens\, in vegetable gardens (to attract pollinators and other beneficial insects)\, as ground covers\, specimens\, and in containers. Liberate them from their traditional roles\, use your imagination – and bring them into your daily life. Learn about plants we already grow that we don’t know are edible\, and easy ways to use herbs in food and drink. \nKaren Bussolini is a nationally-known garden photographer\, writer and speaker\, and eco-friendly garden coach. Her art background and focus on environmental topics – ecological landscaping\, native plants\, biodiversity\, xeriscaping\, organic gardening\, planting for wildlife\, pollinators\, and other beneficial insects – inform every aspect of her work. Slide talks combine beautiful original images\, environmental science\, personal observations\, hands-on experience\, and a touch of humor. Her email newsletter\, Eco-Friendly News\, Views\, Clues and How-To’s won a GardenComm gold medal in 2020. She is currently Senior Horticultural Advisor at White Flower Farm in Connecticut. \n\nSponsored by the Brinley Speakers Fund of The Connecticut Unit of the Herb Society of America\n\nClick HERE to Purchase Tickets & Book
URL:https://elizabethparkct.org/event/herb-liberation/
LOCATION:Pond House\, 1555 Asylum Avenue\, West Hartford\, CT\, 06117
CATEGORIES:Garden Lectures
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SUMMARY:Roses for the Connecticut Garden
DESCRIPTION:Lecture\, Lunch\, and Book Signing $48 \nBOOKS  \n\nA Rose by Any Name –$21.25\nA Year of Roses – $26.60\n\nWithin the newly christened Helen S Kaman Rose Garden and its younger sibling\, the Heritage Rose Garden\, at Elizabeth Park\, we’ll find an historic collection of antique rose hybrids\, as well as the best new rose introductions from American hybridizers and international growers. All these beauties grow and thrive in Connecticut gardens. \nRosarian Stephen Scanniello is a world-renowned gardener\, historian\, author\, lecturer\, designer\, and consultant for gardens public and private. He currently serves as curator of the internationally acclaimed Peggy Rockefeller Rose Garden at the New York Botanical Garden\, and as consultant and rosarian for the Helen S Kaman Rose Garden at Elizabeth Park. \nStephen’s book A Rose by Any Name\, co-authored with Douglas Brenner\, relates the stories behind the names of many roses. A Year of Roses\, revised and reissued in 2006\, teaches how to choose\, order\, plant\, protect\, and maintain your roses. Also included are significant historical facts\, personal anecdotes\, and detailed line drawings. \n\n  \nClick HERE to Purchase Tickets & Books
URL:https://elizabethparkct.org/event/roses-for-the-connecticut-garden/
LOCATION:Pond House\, 1555 Asylum Avenue\, West Hartford\, CT\, 06117
CATEGORIES:Garden Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240417T110000
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SUMMARY:Connecticut's Notable Trees by Frank Kaputa | Lecture & Lunch
DESCRIPTION:Frank Kaputa is the co-chair of the Connecticut’s Notable Trees project.  Frank has been involved with the project since 2005\, and has been involved with all aspects of it\, including measuring and photographing trees\, public outreach\, and the database and website. Frank is a software engineer who lives in Glastonbury. \nLecture & Lunch $48  \nWednesday\, April 17\n11 a.m. – 2 p.m.\nClick HERE to Register.
URL:https://elizabethparkct.org/event/connecticuts-notable-trees-by-frank-kaputa-lecture-lunch/
LOCATION:Pond House\, 1555 Asylum Avenue\, West Hartford\, CT\, 06117
CATEGORIES:Garden Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240410T110000
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SUMMARY:Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Ginkgo But Were Afraid to Ask by Peter Del Tredici | Lecture\, Lunch & Book Signing
DESCRIPTION:Peter has been studying the natural history and evolution of this tree for the last thirty-five years and is a world authority on the subject. His travels have taken him to remote areas in eastern and southwest China in search of wild-growing Ginkgos as well as to old estates and botanical gardens in Europe and the United States. He is an expert on the cultivation of Ginkgo trees for ornamental purposes as well as for the production of leaves used in the production of medicinal extracts. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPeter Del Tredici is a botanist specializing in the growth and development of trees. He retired from the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University in 2014 after working there as a plant propagator\, editor of Arnoldia\, Director of Living Collections\, and Senior Research Scientist for 35 years. He taught in the Landscape Architecture Department at the Harvard Graduate School of Design for 24 years\, and the Urban Planning Department at MIT for three years. He has published over a hundred scientific articles on a wide variety of subjects including: the taxonomy and cultivation of hemlocks and Stewartias\, the history of plant introductions from Japan and China\, the ecology and evolution of the Ginkgo tree\, and the morphology of vegetative regeneration in trees. Since 2004\, his research has focused on urban ecology and climate change\, and in 2010 he published the widely acclaimed\, Wild Urban Plants of the Northeast: A Field Guide (Cornell U. Press\, 2010; 2nd ed. 2020). \nLecture\, Lunch & Book Signing $48  /  Book $34.95 \nWednesday\, April 10\n11 a.m. – 2 p.m.\nClick HERE to Register and Order Books \nWe recommend purchasing books in advance and picking them up at check-in. Limited copies will be available for sale on the day of events.
URL:https://elizabethparkct.org/event/everything-you-ever-wanted-to-know-about-ginkgo-but-were-afraid-to-ask-by-peter-del-tredici-lecture-lunch-book-signing/
LOCATION:Pond House\, 1555 Asylum Avenue\, West Hartford\, CT\, 06117
CATEGORIES:Garden Lectures
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SUMMARY:Untermyer Gardens: A Garden for the World by Stephen Byrns | Lecture\, Lunch & Book Signing
DESCRIPTION:Sprawling over 150 acres on the Hudson River in Yonkers\, it was maintained by 60 gardeners and supplied by 60 greenhouses. The Walled Garden is the finest Persian garden in the Western Hemisphere\, the Vista is the most monumental garden feature in America featuring two ancient Roman columns\, and the Temple of Love contains five waterfalls and six cascades. It is a garden of superlatives.\n\n\n\n\nThe Walled Garden is based on the concept of the Garden of Eden\, which is a shared concept of Christianity\, Judaism\, and Islam. Untermyer’s career as a leading progressive Jew in America brilliantly reflects this multicultural aspect of the garden.\n\nOwned by the City of Yonkers\, the garden was in very poor condition and little known until the establishment of the Untermyer Gardens Conservancy in 2011 by Stephen Byrns.  Since then\, ten gardeners have been hired\, 175\,000 visitors came in 2023\, and many features of the garden have been restored. \nThe lecture contains beautiful photos of the garden in its heyday\, its descent into ruin\, and its rebirth. It also reviews the many historical accomplishments of Samuel and Minnie Untermyer. \nStephen F. Byrns founded the Untermyer Gardens Conservancy in 2011 and is its president.  A graduate of Princeton and Columbia Universities\, he was a founding partner of BKSK Architects\, a successful architectural firm in New York City that was established in 1985. He was appointed by Mayor Bloomberg to serve as a Landmarks Preservation Commissioner on the NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission from 2004–2010.  He served on the Board of Wave Hill from 2000-2010. \n\nA native of Michigan\, Steve discovered Untermyer Gardens when he lived in Yonkers in the 1990s and became involved with local preservation efforts. He revisited it in 2010 when told that the fountains had been turned on after decades of disuse and proceeded to immerse himself in its history and become a volunteer. The more he learned about Samuel Untermyer’s garden\, the more he was convinced that a conservancy should be established to work with the City of Yonkers to make it once again one of the greatest gardens in America. \nLecture\, Lunch & Book Signing $48  /  Book $25 \nWednesday\, April 3\n11 a.m. – 2 p.m.\nClick HERE to Register and Order Books \nWe recommend purchasing books in advance and picking them up at check-in. Limited copies will be available for sale on the day of events.
URL:https://elizabethparkct.org/event/untermyer-gardens-a-garden-for-the-world-by-stephen-byrns-lecture-lunch-book-signing/
LOCATION:Pond House\, 1555 Asylum Avenue\, West Hartford\, CT\, 06117
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SUMMARY:Connecticut Gardens: A Celebration by Caryn B. Davis | Lecture\, Lunch & Book Signing
DESCRIPTION:Caryn B. Davis is an award-winning photographer specializing in architecture\, interiors\, hospitality\, and landscape design photography. Her career has spanned the globe taking her to more than fifty countries\, and her images and articles have appeared in over sixty publications worldwide including The New York Times\, Lonely Planet\, Condé Nast Traveler\, Town & Country\, Travel + Leisure\, New Zealand Geographic\, and other publications. She has two commissioned photography books\, A Connecticut Christmas: Celebrating the Holiday in Classic New England Style\, and Connecticut Waters: Celebrating Our Coastline & Waterways. Connecticut Gardens is her third book. \nLecture\, Lunch & Book Signing $48  /  Book $42.50 \nWednesday\, March 27\n11 a.m. – 2 p.m.\nClick HERE to Register and Order Books \nWe recommend purchasing books in advance and picking them up at check-in. Limited copies will be available for sale on the day of events.
URL:https://elizabethparkct.org/event/connecticut-gardens-a-celebration-by-caryn-b-davis-lecture-lunch-book-signing/
LOCATION:Pond House\, 1555 Asylum Avenue\, West Hartford\, CT\, 06117
CATEGORIES:Garden Lectures
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SUMMARY:Food & Flower: Louis Lista of the Pond House & Sandra Lamo of A Special Place Floral Studio
DESCRIPTION:Sandra Lamo\, owner of A Special Place Floral Studio\, and Louis Lista\, owner of the Pond House Café\, will present a demonstration of unique spring floral arrangments that can incorporate and complement various food platters\, including a crudité and an assorted chocolate dessert platter.
URL:https://elizabethparkct.org/event/food-flower-louis-lista-of-the-pond-house-sandra-lamo-of-a-special-place-floral-studio/
LOCATION:CT
CATEGORIES:Garden Lectures
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SUMMARY:Nature into Art: Lessons from the Gardens of Wave Hill by Thomas Christopher
DESCRIPTION:One of the last surviving estates in the five boroughs of New York\, Wave Hill has developed over the last half-century into one of the foremost public gardens in the United States. Join author Thomas Christopher for a photographic tour of the Wave Hill gardens\, and share in the many lessons these have to teach about designing and maintaining a more beautiful landscape.
URL:https://elizabethparkct.org/event/nature-into-art-lessons-from-the-gardens-of-wave-hill-by-thomas-christopher/
LOCATION:CT
CATEGORIES:Garden Lectures
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