Lectures

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.


June

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...
264LEC223 06/11 Th 11:00am-12:00pm Wulf
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August

Much like our own family, plant families share characteristics, often in the arrangement of their flowers, leaves, and stems. Acclaimed botanical artist Wendy Hollender depicts twenty-four plant families commonly encountered in the garden and in the wild in her newest more...
271LEC214 08/20 Th 10:30am-11:30am Hollender
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