For the upcoming months we will be sharing our lectures via Zoom. Watch your email for the link. If you are not a member you can signup here to receive the link.
Winter | 2022-2023 Dates
Saturday, January 21, 2023 | Saturday, February 18, 2023 | Saturday, March 18, 2023
Saturday, December 17, 2022
- The Dry Garden by Beth Chatto, presented (from Denver, Colorado) by Sue Brackett
- Rescue and Revival: New York Botanical Garden, 1989-2018 by Gregory Long, presented by Julie Sakellariadis
- English Garden Eccentrics: Three Hundred Years of Extraordinary Groves, Burrowings, Mountains and Menageries by Todd Longstaffe-Gowan, presented by Alejandro Saralegui
Winter | 2021-2022 Dates
Saturday, February 19, 2022
- A year at North Hill: Four Seasons in a Vermont Garden by Joe Eck and Wayne Winterrowd, presented by Alex Eames
- Napoleon: A Life Told in Gardens and Shadows by Ruth Scurr presented by Alejandro Saralegui
- Beauty of the Wild: A Life Designing Landscapes Inspired by Nature by Darrel Morrison, presented by Julie Sakellariadis
Saturday, January 15, 2022
- The Soil Will Save us: How Scientists, Farmers, and Foodies are Healing the Soil to Save the Planet by Kristin Ohlson, presented by Pat Nadosy
- The Thoughtful Gardener: An Intelligent Approach to Garden Design by Jinny Blom, presented by Carleen Borsella
- Unearthing the Secret Garden: The Plants and Places That Inspired Frances Hodgson Burnett by Marta McDowell, presented by Alicia Whitaketr
Saturday, December 18, 2021
- Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest by Suzanne Simard, presented by Scott Sottile
- The Earth in Her Hands: 75 Extraordinary Women Working in the World of Plants by Jennifer Jewell, presented by Sarah Alford.
In anticipation of the gift giving season, Joan DiMonda will review a collection of children’s books that will engage, inform and delight the children in our lives!
- Forests by Jess French, Illustrated by Alexander Mostov
- Tell me, Tree: All about Trees for Kids by Gail Gibbons
- Can You Hear the Trees Talking by Peter Wohlleben
- Wishtree by Katherine Applegate
- If you go down to the Woods Today by Rachel Piercey Illustrated by Freya Hartas
Winter | 2020-2021 Dates
Saturday, December 19th, 2020
The New American Landscape by Thomas Christopher, presented by Sue Brackett
Uprooted by Page Dickey, presented by Scott Sottile
Windcliff: A story of People, Plants and Gardens by Daniel J. Hinkley, presented by Alicia Whitaker
Saturday, January 16th, 2021
Planting the Natural Garden by Piet Oudolf, presented by Sarah Alford
Ancestral Plants Volume 2 by Arthur Haines, presented by Terry Berger
Spirit of Place by Bill Noble, presented by Joan DiMonda
Saturday, February 20th, 2021
Garden Dreams Illustrated and Edited by Ferris Cook, Presented by Michael Longacre
Wilding by Isabell Tree, presented by Abby Clough Lawless
Reflections of Paradise: The Gardens of Fernando Caruncho by Gordon Taylor, presented by Carleen Borsella
Saturday, March 20th, 2021
Please join HAH for a special winter book group presentation. Author Stephen Heyman will join us via zoom to discuss his book The Planter of Modern Life: Louis Bromfield and the seeds of a food revolution.
Winter | 2019-2020 Dates
December 14, 2019 – this session only meets at NOON!
Ernest Cavallo: The Galanthophiles, Hamer and Kilpatrick
Judy Freeman, The Front Garden, New Approaches to Landscape Design, Mary Riley Smith
Janet Ollinger, The Songs of Trees, David George Haskell
January 18, 2020
Betty Pasteur: Bringing Nature Home, How You Can Sustain Wildlife with Native Plants, Douglas W. Tallamy
Alicia Whitaker: The Scentual Garden: Exploring the World of Botanical Fragrance, Ken Druse
Susan Kennedy Zeller: Trees in Art, Charles Watkins
February 15, 2020
Sarah Alford: Les Quatres Vents, Frank Cabot
Scott Sottile: The Education of a Gardener, Russell Page
Elaine Peterson: Painted Gardens: English Watercolours, 1850-1914, Penelope Hobhouse and Christopher Wood
March 21, 2020 please note earlier time start at 10 am this month!!
Carolyn Gemake – Chasing Eden: Design Inspiration from the Gardens at Hortulus Farm by Jack Staub and Renny Reynolds
Wendy Serkin – The Nature of Life and Death/Everybody Leaves a Trace by Patricia Wiltshire
Ursula Thomas – The Water Garden by Anthony Paul and Yvonne Rees
Winter | 2018-2019 Dates
December 15, 2018 –
Scott Sottile – The Backyard Parables by Margaret Roach
Alicia Whitaker – The Gardens of Bunny Mellon by Linda Jane Holden
Donna Murray from the Hampton Library will speak to us about the library and it’s programs.
January 19, 2019
Richard Russo: The Earth Moved: On the Remarkable Achievement of Earthworms – Amy Stewart
Pamela Harwood: Gardening with Foliage First – Karen Chapman & Christina Salwitz
Susan Brackett: The English Vicarage Garden – Miss Read & Piers Dudgeon
February 16, 2019
Elaine Peterson: Heroes of Horticulture – Barbara Paul Robinson
Carleen Borsella: The Wild Garden – William Robinson & Rick Darke
Joan Wilson: Capability Brown: Designing the English Landscape – John Phibbs
March 16, 2019
Sarah Alford: Beatrix Farrand: Private Gardens, Public Squares – Judith Tankard
Susan K. Zeller: The Overstory – Richard Powers
Jane Iselin: The Inward Garden – Julie Moir Messervy
Winter | 2017-2018 Dates
December 16, 2017
Mike DeVito: The Passion for Gardening, Inspiration for a Lifetime – Ken Druse
Pamela Harwood: Founding Gardeners -Andrea Wolf
Scott Sottile: Planting in a Post-Wild World –
Thomas Rainer & Claudia West
January 20, 2018
Elaine Peterson: The Rockefeller Family Gardens – Larry Lederman
Alicia Whitaker: Bunny Mellon: The Life of an American Style Legend – Merle Gordon
Susan Zeller: Art to Landscape: Unleashing Creativity in Garden Design – W. Gary Smith
February 17, 2018
Lydia Wallis: Elements of Garden Design, Joe Eck
Carol Spencer: The Gardens of Winterthur in All Seasons, Harold Bruce
Jane Iselin: Long Island Landscapes and the Women Who Designed Them, Cynthia Zaitsevsky
March 17, 2018
Erika Shank: Rock Gardening: Reimagining a Classic Style – Joseph Tychonievich
Janet Ollinger: Head Gardeners – Ambra Edwards
Carleen Borsello: The Company of Trees – Thomas Parkenham
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