Winter Book Group

Winter Book Group is a Zoom Event, watch your email for each month’s link.
If you are not a HAH member you can signup here to receive a link for upcoming dates.
A number of the Zoom events have been recorded and can be watched from links here.

Winter | 2023-2024 Dates

Saturday, March 16, 2024

Noah’s Garden: Restoring the Ecology of Our Own Back Yards by Sara Stein, presented by Pat Garrity
English Gardens: From the Archives of Country Life Magazine by Kathryn Bradley-Hole, presented by Jane Miness
American Roots: Lessons and Inspiration from the Designers Reimagining Our Home Gardens by Nick McCullough, Allison McCullough, and Teresa Woodard, presented by Scott Sottile

Saturday, February 17, 2024

Planting for Pollinators: Creating a Garden Haven by Heather Angel, presented by Carleen Borsella
What Makes a Garden: A considered approach to garden design by Jinny Blom, presented by Alejandro Saralegui
The Man Who Organized Nature: The Life of Linnaeus by Gunnar Broberg, presented by Alicia Whitaker

Saturday, January 20, 2024

Art and the Gardener: Fine Painting as Inspiration for Garden Design by Gordon Hayward, presented by Ron Marcelo
Mini-Forest Revolution: Using the Miyawaki Method to Rapidly Rewild the World by Hannah Lewis, presented by Pat Nadosy
Wild by Design: The Rise of Ecological Restoration by Laura J. Martin, presented by Julie Sakellariadis

Saturday, December 16, 2023

Under Western Skies: Visionary Gardens from the Rockies to the Pacific Coast by Jennifer Jewell, presented by Sue Brackett
The Impressionist Garden by Derek Fell, presented by Carolyn Gemake
Three children’s books, presented by Joan DiMonda
- Be a Tree! by Maria Gianferrari
- Trees: A Rooted History by Piotr Socha and Wojciech Grajkowski
- Backyard Explorer: Discovering Trees by Editors of Storey Publishing

Winter | 2022-2023 Dates

Saturday, March 18, 2023

The American Woodland Garden: Capturing the Spirit of the Deciduous Forest by Rick Darke, presented by Scott Sottile
Of Naked Ladies and Forget-Me-Nots: The Stories Behind the Common Names of Some of Our Favorite Plants by Allan Armitage, presented by Joan DiMonda
Of Naked Ladies and Forget-Me-Nots: The Stories Behind the Common Names of Some of Our Favorite Plants by Allan Armitage, presented by Joan DiMonda
Notes From Madoo: Making a Garden in the Hamptons by Robert Dash presented by Janet Donhoe Ollinger

Saturday, February 18, 2023

The Seasonal Gardener: Creative Planting Combinations by Anna Pavord, presented by Carleen Borsella
An Island Garden by Celia Thaxter, presented by Alexandra Eames
New Wild Garden: Natural-style planting and practicalities by Ian Hodgson, presented by Paige Louthan

Saturday, January 21, 2023

A Growing Gardener by Abbie Zabar, presented by Janet Ollinger | Abbie Zabar will participate
The Paper Garden: An Artist Begins Her Life’s Work at 72 by Molly Peacock, presented by Alicia Whitaker
Cream Hill: Discoveries of a Weekend Countryman by Lewis Gannett, presented by Michael Longacre

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 18, 2021

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

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

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,
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