We Need Something Interesting To Do This Winter
It’s cold now and we are spending more time indoors. Walks are shorter and there is little greenery to lift our spirits.
Having given much thought to the problem of how to deal with wintertime isolation, I have arrived at one particular solution that, I believe, can make this time both interesting and productive with the added benefit of non-partisan interaction with others.
New York Botanical Garden and the EcoFlora Project
The New York Botanical Garden (NYBG), located in the Bronx, is the home of the EcoFlora Project which began in 2018. At that time there were two co-chairs . The first was Brian Boom then Vice President for Conservation Strategy . Although now he is Curator Emeritus, he is still deeply involved in EcoFlora. Daniel Atha is the second dynamic force and is officially Director of Conservation Outreach.
Darien Library and Barrett Bookstore welcome Marta McDowell, author of Emily Dickinson’s Gardening Life Written by Amanda Goodman
Emily Dickinson’s Gardening Life with Marta McDowell
Darien Library and Barrett Bookstore are thrilled to welcome Marta McDowell, author of Emily Dickinson’s Gardening Life. In this program, Marta McDowell will explore Dickinson’s gardens through excerpts of her letters and poems and historic and modern images of her garden.
This event will take place via Zoom on Thursday, January 21 at 10 a.m. Registration is required to receive the Zoom invitation and can be found at http://dar.to/2KAof9f .
Wambui Ippolito is an immigrant â she was born and spent her early childhood in East Africa â and this rising young New York horticulturist has a good grip on the crucial role that immigrants continue to play in shaping the American landscape.
It is immigrants, after all, who have provided the backbone of our national landscaping industry since it first emerged in the 19th century. Scots and English gardeners gave way to Irish ones, and by the time I was learning the business 45 years ago, my mentors were mostly Southern Italians from Sicily and Napoli. They supplemented what I was taught in classes, tempering the ideal of informal English gardens held up to me by classroom instructors with a Southern Italian fondness for a more clipped and ordered landscape.
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