New Series at Brooklyn Botanic Garden
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- January
- 15
Leann Lavin emailed to let me know about a new winter lecture series at BBG. Looks like it’s free, but reservations are required.
Here’s a link to an earlier post on lecture series sponsored by the Westchester master gardeners of Cornell Cooperative Ext. (first one is tomorrow morning) and New York Botanical Garden (first one is Thursday).
Here’s Leann:
“WHEN: Thursday, January 24, 2008 | 6 p.m.
WHERE: Brooklyn Botanic Garden | 1000 Washington Avenue
“Brooklyn Botanic Garden (BBG) announces its new Winter Lecture Series, a program of dynamic evening talks on a variety of horticulture topics, including the culinary arts and botanical tourism. The aim of the series is to provide an invigorating look at plants as they are used, appreciated, and discussed throughout the world.
“The inaugural Winter Lecture, “Exploring the Gardens of the Adachi Museum of Art,â€? will present an enchanting journey through the distinctive gardens—ranked among the best in Japan—of the Adachi Museum in Shimane province. BBG is pleased to welcome the directors and curators of the Adachi Museum to Brooklyn for the first time; their lecture will discuss the gardens as living works of art, describing their history, construction, and maintenance. Representatives from the Adachi Museum of Art will include director Mr. Takanori Adachi, head gardener Mr. Kobayashi, and John Powell, the first westerner to train as a gardener at the Museum.
“The lecture will be followed by the film The Gardens in the Four Seasons, which features gorgeous photography of the Adachi grounds.
“Exploring the Gardens at the Adachi Museum of Art� will take place on January 24, 2008 at 6 p.m. A reception will follow. Free. Reservations required; call the BBG lecture hotline at 718-623-7230.
Stay tuned for the next lecture in the Winter Lecture Series: “Chocolate: Healing Food of the Gods?� on February 8, 2008, at 6 p.m.
For more information, visit the BBG Web site.”
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Bill Cary grew up in Louisville, Ky. His gardening was limited to growing parsley and impatiens on the windowsill of Manhattan walkups until the mid-1990s when he bought a rundown old chicken farm on 8 acres in the Hudson Valley. Now he spends his weekends chasing deer, hacking away at invasive shrubs and vines and wondering why he doesn`t have more meadow and less lawn.
