Speakers 2016-2017

May 19, 2017

IMPORTANT: Arrive early – at 6:30 pm – for the end-of-season Ice Cream Social! Bring a floral centerpiece to grace your table!

The 2016-2017 Season, our 130th year, ends with the Lois and Herb Isaacson Endowed Lecture and our traditional Ice Cream Social. C.L.Fornari, Gardening Expert, Author, Speaker, Radio Host and Blogger will discuss design mistakes and how to improve on them in her presentation, Landscape Design Bloopers.

As tradition goes, flower gardeners are invited to create a tabletop centerpiece.

Past Speakers 2015-2016

June 29, 2016

June 16,2016: Ice Cream Social & The Art of Gardening at Chanticleer, R. William Thomas, Exec. Dir. Chanticleer Foundation. Our speaker, Bill Thomas, will bring you on a visual tour of Chanticleer and share some of their design and gardening tips and techniques. You’ll leave knowing more about garden practices specific to different conditions and plant palettes; how […]

Past Speakers 2014-2015

September 1, 2015

June 18, 2015: Robert Adzema – “Designing the Light: Using Sun Dials and a Sense of Place to Understand the Play of Sunlight in Your Garden” Evaluate this speaker by clicking this link Sculptor and plein air landscape painter Robert Adzema has spent a lifetime pursuing the beauty of sunlight. For his sun-specific sculptures, he […]

June 19 Speaker: Garden Photographer Rob Cardillo

May 13, 2014

Rob Cardillo has professionally photographed plants, gardens and the people that tend them for over twenty years. Formally the Director of Photography at Organic Gardening magazine, he now works for major publishers, landscape designers and horticultural suppliers. He will speak and offer tips on how to view your garden with the photographer’s eye at our June 2014 meeting.

May 15 Program Meeting: Containers: Design to Installation with Mike Ruggiero

May 10, 2014

May 15th, 2014: program meeting: featuring Mike Ruggiero, gardening giant of 40 years at NYBG; expert rosarian, author, mentor & MSL favorite. Come listen as colorful horticulturalist Michael Ruggiero shares a fraction of his vast experience with us as the frost days pass and pots, hats, boxes –anything beg to be filled with the best […]