Throughout the year, NYBG Adult Education offers lectures in which outstanding landscape architects and designers present their signature works and insights, and internationally recognized speakers address topics of global interest related to the study, preservation, and appreciation of the plant kingdom.
Situated
on
the
hills
overlooking
Tuscany's
Val
d'Orcia—a
UNESCO
World
Heritage
Site—La
Foce
is
home
to
one
of
the
most
beautiful
private
gardens
in
Italy.
Biographer
and
writer
Iris
Origo
and
her
husband
Antonio
purchased
the
La
Foce
property
in
more...
NYBG's
26th
Annual
Landscape
Design
Portfolios
Lecture
Series
welcomes
three
distinguished,
innovative
landscape
architects—Shannon
Nichol,
Shane
Coen,
and
Lauren
Stimson—whose
work
explores
the
multidimensional
relationship
between
design
and
nature.
Each
speaker
will
share
projects
ranging
from
residential
landscapes
to
museums,
more...
As
co-founder
of
Seattle-based
landscape
design
firm
GGN,
Shannon
Nichol
is
committed
to
specifying
local
native
plant
palettes
through
long-term
and
norm-breaking
collaborations
with
local
horticulturalists
and
landscape
managers
around
the
world.
Stemming
from
a
lifelong
enthusiasm
and
amateur
familiarity
more...
With
their
deadly
plants,
razor-sharp
shears,
shady
corners,
and
ready-made
burial
sites,
gardens
make
an
ideal
scene
for
a
murder
mystery.
Flora
and
horticulture
have
had
an
outsize
influence
on
the
genre:
motive,
means,
opportunity,
victims,
villains,
and
detectives.
Founder
and
CEO
of
Coen+Partners,
Shane
Coen
aims
to
redefine
how
we
interact
with
people
and
place.
His
firm's
ethos
was
founded
on
the
commitment
to
always
help
define
and
push
the
boundaries
of
landscape
architecture—bringing
earth
and
cultural
equity
more...
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