Bridgehampton Community House
2357 Montauk Highway at School Street
Bridgehampton, NY 11932
Lectures are free for members, $10 per person for non-members.
A number of Zoom lectures have been recorded to video, the video library is here.
photo ©Erika Shank
2026 Monthly Lecture Dates – 2 pm
January 11 | Karen Bussolini | The Unsung Season: Gardens in Winter (On Zoom)
February 15 | C.L. Fornari | Houseplant Happiness (On Zoom)
March 15 | Helen O’Donnell | Gardening In a Changing World
April 12 | Leslie Duthie | Native Ferns and Wildflowers for Shade Gardens
May 3 | Teresa Woodard | Garden to the Max: Joyful, Visionary, Maximalist Design
June 14 | Christian Douglas | The Food Forward Garden: Explore
the Art and Science of Edible Landscape Design
September 13 | Roy Diblik | Growing Plants in Communities
October 18 | Dr. Eve Beaury | Seeding Ecosystems of the Future
November 15 | Michael Gibson | The Gibson Method: Reimagining Topiary As Living Art
December 20 | Roman Roth | How to Grow and Achieve World Class Vineyards Right Here on the East End
2025 Monthly Lecture Dates – 2 pm
January 12 | Merlin Sheldrake | A Conversation with the Author of Entangled Life (on Zoom)
February 9 | Carolyn Summers | Native Plants: From the Wild to the Garden
March 9 | Heather Holm | Native Predatory Wasps—Their Role as Pollinators and Beneficial Insects
April 13 | Sam Hoadley | Knockout Natives
May 4 | Beronda Montgomery | Lessons From Plants on Human Thriving
June 8 | Noel Kingsbury | Planting Wild Style Gardens—What We Need to Know
September 7 | Nick McCullough | American Roots
October 19 | Katherine H. Kerin | Innisfree: Lessons In Slow Gardening
November 9 | Signe Nielsen | Little Island: More than Meets the Eye
December 14 | Stephen Searl | Sylvester Manor: Past, Present, and Future
2024 Monthly Lecture Dates – 2 pm
January 14 | Deborah Chud | Zoom | New Perennials: A Love Story
February 11 | Dan Benarcik | Design Principles of the Pros That Can Be Applied to the Home Landscap
March 10 | Dan Jaffe Wilder | Kill Your Lawn
April 14 | Susan Barton | Sustainable Landscaping
May 5 | Abra Lee | Conquer the Soil
June 9 | Jenny Bakshi | Botanical Latin
September 8 | Darrel Morrison | Beauty of the Wild
October 13 | Jeff Epping | Gravel Gardens–Gardens That Rock!
November 10 | Michael Hagen | Native Plants for the Rock Garden
December 8 | April Gonzales | The American Chestnut
2023 Monthly Lecture Dates – 2 pm
January 15 | Frances Palmer | Life in the Studio
February 12 | Catie Marron | Becoming A Gardener: What Reading and Digging Taught Me About Living
March 12 | Sara Cedar Miller | Before Central Park
April 16 | Fred Landman | Sleepy Cat Farm: A Gardener’s Journey
May 7 | James Golden | The View from Federal Twist: A New Way of Thinking About Gardens, Nature, and Ourselves
June 11 | Karl Gercens | 365 Days of Flowers
September 10 | Bridget Wosczyna | Introduction to the Plants You Should be Growing: Hardy and Tropical Aroids for Northeast Gardens
October 15 | Tony Piazza | Native Plant Communities in Landscape Design
November 12 | Uli Lorimer | The Northeast Native Plant Primer: 235 Plants for an Earth-Friendly Garden
December 10 | Scott Chaskey | Soil & Spirit, Cultivation and Kinship in the Web of Life
2022 Monthly Lecture Dates – 2 pm
January 16 | Andy Brand | After The Flowers Have Faded: Plants with Fabulous Foliage
February 13 | Ruth Rogers Clausen | Deer-Resistant Native Plants for the Northeast
March 13 | Renny Reynolds | Gardens in England & their influence on Hortulus
April 10 | Thomas Christopher | Nature Into Art – Lessons To Be Learned From the Gardens of Wave Hill
May 1 | Andrew Bunting | Belvidere: Evolution of a Plantsman’s Garden
June 12 | Jennifer Jewell | Cultivating Place, How a Garden Culture of Care Strengthens Places and Their People
September 11 | Lori Chips | Troughs: Gardening in the Smallest Landscape
October 16 | Lois Sheinfeld | Outstanding Trees for the Home Garden
November 13 | C. L. Fornari | The 21st Century Flower Garden
December 11 | Stephen Scanniello | The Rose Garden Chronicles
2021 Monthly Lecture Dates – 2 pm
January 10 – Katherine Tracey – Succulent Love
February 7 – Evan Abramson – Designing Biodiversity: Local Strategies for Pollinator Habitat Creation & Connectivity
March 14 – Page Dickey – Uprooted: A Gardener Reflects on Beginning Again
April 11 – Tony Avent – My Favorite 100…Perennials I Wouldn’t Garden Without
May 2 – Susan Cohen – The Inspired Landscape
June 13 – Dan Hinkley – From Shadow to Sun: the Making of Windcliff
September 12 – Andy Brand – Spectacular Natives, Beauty & Biodiversity of the Northeast
October 17 – Bill Cullina – What do you Mean I’m Not a Perennial?! Native Shrubs & Small Trees for Perennial Companionship
November 9 – Tour the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, Massachusetts
November 14 – Holger Winenga – New Plants at LongHouse Reserve
December 8 – The Writer in the Garden | HAH Zoom Discussion with Jane Garmey
December 12 – Roxanne Zimmer – Celebrating Olmstead’s Parks for All
2020 Sunday Lecture Dates – 2 pm
January 12 – Julie Moir Messervy – The Designer’s Way: Creating Gardens (and Lives) of Beauty and Meaning www.JMMDS.com
February 9 – Chris Woods – Gardenlust: A Botanical Tour of the World’s Best New Gardens
March 8 – Stephen F. Byrns – Untermyer: A Garden for the World www.untermyergardens.org
POSTPONED TO 2021 April 5 – Tony Avent – My Favorite 100… Perennials I Wouldn’t Garden Without www.plantdelights.com
POSTPONED TO 2021 May 3 – Lois Sheinfeld – Outstanding Trees for the Home Garden www.floragloria.com
POSTPONED TO 2021 June 14 – Bill Cullina – What do you Mean I’m Not a Perennial?!Native Shrubs & Small Trees for Perennial Companionship www.mainegardens.org
Please note there are no lectures in July or August
September 13 – Lori Chips – Troughs: Gardening in the Smallest Landscape www.olivernurseries.com
October 18 – Judith Tankard – Gardens of the Arts & Crafts Movement www.judithtankard.com
November 8 – Margery Daughtery – Battling Diseases in the Garden www.cornell.edu
December 13 – David Culp – A Bountiful Year: Six Seasons of Beauty from Brandywine Cottage
2019 Sunday Lecture Dates – 2 pm
January 13 – Matt Mattus – Botanizing in the Land of the Blue Poppy – Yunnan & Western China
February 10 – Alejandro Saralegui, Director the Madoo Conservancy –Madoo a History in Photographs: Celebrating 25 Years As a Public Garden
March 10 – Ed Bowen & Taylor Johnson – Reconsidering the Cutting Garden?
April 7 – Margie Ruddick – Wild by Design: Promoting Life in the Designed Landscape
May 5 – Jerry Fritz – New & Exciting Perennials
June 9 – Karen Bussolini – Gardening with Kids: Opening Eyes & Doors
Please note there are no lectures in July or August
September 8 – Lee Buttala – Twenty Heirloom Varieties, Their Stories and Why they Belong in Your Garden
October 20 – Renee Marsh – Groundcover Plants – Beyond Pachysandra
November 10 – Ian Ross – The Essence of Flower Photography
December 8 – Annie Novak – Grow Up! Rooftop Farming
2018 Sunday Lecture Dates – 2 pm
January 14 – Joseph Tychonievich – Rock Gardening: Reimagining a Classic Style
February 11– Rick Bogusch – Herb Blends & Spice Mixes: How to Make Them & How to Use Them
March 11 – Bill Noble – Imaginary Gardens with Real Toads in Them
April 8 – Thomas Mickey – America’s Romance with the English Garden
May 6 – Diane Barthel-Bouchier – Botanical Art: A Continuing Tradition
June 10 – Ken Greene – The Art of Seed Stewardship hudsonvalleyseed.com
www.seedshed.org
September 9 – Lynden Miller – The Designer’s Eye
October 14 – Anne Haines – Fragrant Plants
November 11 – Jane Garmey – A Sense of Place –
An inside Look at a Wide Variety of Private Gardens in Connecticut & the Hudson Valley
December 9 – Donald W. Hyatt – Chasing the Bloom in the Southern Appalachians
www.donaldhyatt.com
2017 Sunday Lecture Dates – 2 pm
January 8 – Betsy Pinover Schiff – New York City Gardens: Rooftops to Sidewalks
February 12 – Mary Woltz – Meeting the Bees’ Needs
March 12 – Alex Feleppa – The Living Landscape of LongHouse Reserve
April 9 – Larry Weaner – Lawn Alternatives: Creating a Successful Ground Cover
May 7 – Ruth Rogers Clausen – Essential Deer Resistant Perennials for Outstanding Gardens
June 11 – Edwina von Gal – Perfect Earth Project
no lectures in July or August
September 10 – Daryl Beyers – Fabulous Fall & Winter Containers
October 15 – Panel Discussion – Putting Your Garden to Bed for Winter
Elizabeth Lear, Peter Bertrand, R.B. Boyle, Paul Wagner
November 12 – Ellen Ecker Ogden – The Complete Kitchen Garden
December 10 – Jan Johnsen – Serenity by Design
2016 Sunday Lecture Dates – 2 pm
January 10 – Deborah Nevins – Landscape Thoughts and Current Work
February 7 – Duncan Brine – Naturalistic Landscape Design: Breaking Rules on Principle
http://www.gardenlarge.com
March 13 – Ernest Cavallo – Galanthophilia, A Good Kind of Love
April 10 – Dan Snow – Listening to Stone
http://www.dansnowstoneworks.com
May 1 – Michael Wojtech – Bark: Get to Know Your Trees
http://www.knowyourtrees.com
June 12 – Scott Chaskey – SEEDTIME, On the History, Husbandry, Politics, and Promise of Seeds
no lectures in July or August
September 11 – Scott Howe – Geology, Natural History and Art: The Parrish Museum’s Landscape http://www.Parrishart.org
October 16 – Marta McDowell – All the Presidents’ Gardens
http://www.martamcdowell.com
November 13 – Bruce Crawford – Small Trees for the Home Landscape
December 11 – Dennis Schrader – Tropical Immersion: The Costa Rica Garden Designed by Dennis Schrader http://www.landcraftenvironments.com
HAH | The Horticultural Alliance of the Hamptons 