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.
March
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Tony
Avent
established
Juniper
Level
Botanic
Garden
(JLBG)
and
its
accompanying
Plant
Delights
Nursery
in
central
North
Carolina
in
1986,
with
the
mission
to
actively
promote
and
preserve
botanical
diversity.
Today,
JLBG
serves
as
a
repository
of
plant
genetics,
with
more...
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263LEC809C
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03/19
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Th
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11:00am-12:00pm
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Avent
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NYBG
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April
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A
care
for
plants
is
a
care
for
the
planet,
say
Ben
Goulet-Scott,
Ph.D.,
and
Jacob
S.
Suissa,
Ph.D.,
who
are
co-founders
of
Let's
BotanizeŽ—an
educational
non-profit
promoting
the
hobby
of
botanizing
by
spreading
curiosity,
knowledge,
and
appreciation
of
plants
more...
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264LEC206
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04/14
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Tu
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11:00am-12:00pm
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Botanize
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MERTZLIBRARY
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When
author
Amy
Stewart
discovered
a
community
of
tree
collectors,
she
expected
to
meet
horticultural
fanatics
driven
to
plant
every
species
of
oak
or
maple.
But
she
also
discovered
that
the
urge
to
collect
trees
springs
from
something
deeper
and
more...
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264LEC809D
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04/23
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Th
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11:00am-12:00pm
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Stewart
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NYBG
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May
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Trees
cannot
move,
so
we
often
assume
that
they
are
passive
participants
in
the
world.
Join
tree
consultant
and
author
Harriet
Rix
as
she
reveals
fascinating
aspects
of
trees;
the
ways
they
shape
the
abiotic
elements
of
water
and
air,
more...
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264LEC237
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05/14
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Th
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11:00am-12:00pm
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Rix
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NYBG
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June
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Step
into
the
life
and
times
of
George
Forster,
a
remarkable
young
naturalist,
writer,
and
revolutionary
who
journeyed
to
the
far
reaches
of
the
known
world—and
whose
radical
ideas
about
humanity,
equality,
and
freedom
challenged
the
dominant
worldviews
of
18th-century
more...
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264LEC223
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06/11
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Th
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11:00am-12:00pm
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Wulf
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NYBG
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