Instructor: Marta McDowell

Marta McDowell
 Marta McDowell holds a Certificate in Landscape Design from the Botanical Garden. She is a writer, lecturer, and garden designer.

Her garden writing has appeared in popular publications such as Woman's Day, Country Gardening, and The New York Times. Marta's work typically follows the relationship between the pen and the trowel, that is, authors and their gardens. In addition to her latest publication, she has also published Unearthing The Secret Garden, Emily Dickinson's Gardening Life, The World of Laura Ingalls Wilder, New York Times-bestselling All the Presidents' Gardens, and Beatrix Potter's Gardening Life, now in its ninth printing.

Marta is active in the Chatham Community Garden and is on the board of the NJ Historical Foundation at the Cross Estate in Bernardsville.

www.martamcdowell.com

Classes by this instructor


Garden Design History Walk

Many important designers have shaped NYBG grounds throughout the years, including Calvert Vaux, Beatrix Farrand, Piet Oudolf, and Lynden B. Miller. Stroll the grounds with award-winning author Marta McDowell, who will discuss how the Garden's plantings, pathways, ornaments, and structures more...
252LAN267 11/07 Th 9:30am-11:30am McDowell
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Gardening Can Be Murder: Book Talk with Marta McDowell

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.

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252GAR828 10/24 Th 10:30am-11:30am McDowell
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