Trowels & Tomorrow: Garden Stewardship withTovah Martin

The beauty of gardens is that they mature. Join Tovah Martin in this lecture about horticultural preservation, stewardship, and how gardeners grapple with change. We address the challenges of bringing landscapes into the next generation. Whether you have inherited a landscape or created a garden over decades and now face mature trees and shrubs that require preemptive pruning or relocation, we explore issues and answers. We look at woodland gardens and grand estates, we explore gardens great and small. We tackle such sticky wickets as rehabilitating overgrown boxwood hedges and coping with plants that were once considered exotics but have now been unmasked as invasives. This is a lecture about bringing yesterday’s gardens into tomorrow. But we also talk about plant preservation and heirloom varieties, honoring the people who have worked to preserve vintage ornamentals so those plants with a past can become the superstars of future gardens.

Ms. Martin will have copies of her most recent books available for purchase and signing. 

In her constant, undying pursuit of all things garden-related, Tovah gets her hands dirty both outside and indoors. She is a perennial, heirloom, vegetable and cottage gardener of fanatical proportions, and has earned her accreditation from NOFA as an Organic Land Care professional. Beyond the garden outdoors, Tovah's areas of specialty also include decaded of experience with tropicals (especially begonias) in windowsills, greenhouses, and otherwise. Tovah has authored more than a dozen books including The Unexpected Houseplant, The New Terrarium, and Tasha Tudor's Garden.

For more information about Tovah Martin please visit her website at www.tovahmartin.com or visit her blog page at www.plantwise.com.

Lecture Fee: $20 members; $25 non-members