HAH WINTER BOOK DISCUSSION GROUP
From December through March the Winter Book Review Group meets in the HAH library on the third Saturday of the month at 11:00 am. Volunteer reviewers make their own choices of what they would like to read and comment upon. You need not read the books yourself. The reviewers are doing that for you and then after hearing their review you can decide if you want to read it yourself. This program is open to the public as well as members and is a great way to spend a winter morning at HAH. Ursula Thomas is our moderator.
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.
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
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
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
