Arboretum - Past Workshops and Events

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2023-24 Saturday Speaker Series

Birds and Their Habitats in Central New York: A Diverse Avian Community with Matt Perry

March 8, 2025
This multimedia program explores the rich variety of bird species found across Central New York's diverse habitats, including songbirds, wading birds, raptors, and more. From forest-dwelling warblers and grassland sparrows to wetland bitterns and urban falcons, you'll learn about their behaviors, conservation statuses, and how you can help protect the environments they call home. Matt Perry is the conservation director at Spring Farm CARES Nature Sanctuary in Clinton. He is the incoming president of the non-profit beaver advocacy group Beavers: Wetlands & Wildlife. Additionally, he is the president and co-founder of the Utica Peregrine Falcon Project and contributes as a nature writer for Mohawk Valley Living Magazine.

Honey, I Shrunk the Lawn with Judith Fetterley

February 8, 2025
Lawns are wonderful spaces to play, eat, and talk, but they are also ecologically and economically expensive. Perhaps we could do with less of them. If you are wondering what you might do to reduce pollution and restore our ecosystem, shrinking your lawn is one option. This program will present various lawn-reduction options from the least intensive to the most dramatic. Judith is an Albany County Cornell Cooperative Extension Master Gardener. She has a bi-monthly newsletter, Out in the Garden. She is also the former owner and manager of Perennial Wisdom, a small perennial garden design business, and a Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus at the University at Albany/SUNY.

GMOs: History, Myth, and Science with Natalie Nannas, PhD

November 16, 2024
Humans have altered the genetics of plants and animals since 12,000 BCE through domestication, using selective breeding and artificial selection to change these organisms for our benefit dramatically. Over the past few decades, human intervention in plant and animal genetics has rapidly accelerated through direct manipulation by genetic engineering. The resulting organisms are called genetically modified organisms (GMOs), and their acceptance by society has been a subject of intense debate. While GMOs are typically thought of in the context of plant-based food, plant and animal GMOs are being developed to address issues ranging from global food supply to climate change to medicine. Join Associate Professor of Biology Natalie Nannas for a fascinating look at the history, the myths, and the science behind GMOs.

Seeing Flowers: Discovering the Hidden Life of Flowers with Teri Dunn Chace

October 19, 2024
An engrossing, narrated hour-long talk based on her best-selling Timber Press title of the same name, learn why flowers look and behave the way they do, why certain plants are placed in certain families, how flowers attract pollinators, and how pollination works. She also regales the audience with some unique and entertaining stories from the era of plant hunters. Savor the breathtaking photographs by Robert Llewellyn (she will explain his “image-stacking” technique).

Seeing the Forest for the Trees: Climate Action at Hamilton College with Aaron Strong, Ph.D.

September 21, 2024
Associate Professor of Environmental Studies Aaron Strong will discuss Hamilton College's new initiatives to take action on climate change and improve the sustainability of the campus. Hamilton College will achieve carbon neutrality by 2030 primarily by replacing fossil fuel heating infrastructure with electrically powered heat pumps and through extensive reforestation initiatives. Prof. Strong will also discuss the expanded use of electric vehicles on campus and the College's 90% landfill diversion commitment for waste reduction. Throughout the presentation, Prof. Strong will highlight how these initiatives align with the College's educational mission and curriculum.

2023-24 Speakers

September 16, 2023

Horticulturist Nell Gardner will lead you through how to grow, harvest, and arrange many cut-flower varieties, including Dahlias. Nell Gardner grew up on a hardscrabble farm in Vermont and Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia. She has worked in agriculture and horticulture since graduating from Cornell. She has grown specialty cut flowers since 1992 on her farm, “Flower Fields.” Through her experience with flowers and agronomic background, she has developed methods of growing to produce armloads of high-quality flowers for sale at shops, farm markets, and florists. Her unconventional background gives her a fresh, down-to-earth perspective, and you will be inspired to start your cutting garden or incorporate cut-flower varieties into your landscape.

October 7, 2023

Join landscape architect Glen Valentine, principal of the Cambridge studio of STIMSON Associates, as he gives an overview of Hamilton’s landscape master plan. You will learn a little about the history of Hamilton’s campus, how the space has evolved through the decades, the principles used to develop recommendations, and where we go from here. Glen is a landscape architect with more than 30 years of experience in the field. He started his career in Annapolis, Maryland, designing public spaces celebrating the history and ecology of the Chesapeake Bay region. He is particularly interested in exploring the expressive and sculptural potential of landform as it relates to unique programs and environmental conditions. His work includes award-winning campus and institutional master plans, public parks, and private residences. Glen received his undergraduate degree from Haverford College, where he studied urban planning, art history, and sculpture, and earned his master’s degree in landscape architecture from the University of Virginia.

November 11, 2023

Robert Fry will talk about reclaimed wood salvaged from storm-damaged or diseased trees, saving it from landfills and other recycled materials used in his sculpture making. He will show images and discuss his artwork, process, and how he chooses materials. In his work, he says, “The sculptural forms I create are simple, with elements added to create contrast and complexity—texture, color, and line—and explore the differences and similarities of materials.” Robert studied art with a focus on sculpture at Northern Kentucky University. He is a self-employed artist and fabricator, working on museum installations and private commissions. Known for a reductive but sensually executed aesthetic, his sculptures have been featured in numerous group and solo exhibitions and sculpture publications.

February 17, 2024

Maggie Reilly, an environmental engineer from Wild Ones Mohawk Valley, discussed the importance of planting native plants to preserve healthy, biodiverse ecosystems and create compassionate landscapes. Beautiful, well-designed native gardens and home landscapes enrich our lives and the lives of those around us. Maggie demonstrated how to use native plants in traditional garden design, creating gardens that respect and sustain all living things: plants, pollinators, wildlife, and humans.

March 16, 2024

The formal release of three action plans in April 2023 - Climate Action Plan, Land & Forest Stewardship Plan, and Sustainability Action Plan - prioritized Hamilton College's commitment to sustainability. The talk explored the development process for the Land and Forest Stewardship Plan, the mechanics behind carbon sequestration and Hamilton’s 2030 carbon neutrality goal, and the symbiotic relationship between Hamilton’s sustainability goals and education/research interests.

April 13, 2024

Professor Williams, author of The Nature Handbook, 2005, Oxford University Press, presented a naturalist’s view of the changes in nature in the unfolding seasons from May through September, focusing on the Mohawk Valley and the western Adirondacks. He showed photographs of birds, butterflies, and wildflowers that illustrate seasonal change patterns and document nature’s beauty and diversity.

2022-23 Speakers

April 15, 2023

Changing temperatures, varied rain, snowfall, and shifting seasons suggest that plants will be more stressed and less productive in the future. But there are still many unknowns. Peter Guiden, assistant professor of biology at Hamilton College, will talk about his research on invasive plants, changing autumn conditions, and winter climate change affecting plants. Pete is a community ecologist, studying the interaction of living things. An important component of his research is understanding how humans alter these interactions through climate change, habitat loss, and the introduction of invasive species. He received a Ph.D. in integrative biology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He enjoys bringing his research into the classroom, especially involving students in the effort to conserve and restore biodiversity on campus.

March 25, 2023

The Tailor and the Cook restaurant has been one of the brightest spots in Utica’s rich culinary nightlife for the past decade. When it was conceived, owner and executive chef Tim Hardiman envisioned offering provocative cuisine and top-notch service in a comfortable atmosphere. They endeavored to do this in a location and neighborhood rich with local history. Obtaining local products is of the utmost importance to The Tailor and the Cook. Sourcing ingredients from New York State farms allows them to cook with the seasons and serve the freshest and most creative dishes. In turn, this business model enhances the environmental and economic health of the community. Tim will talk about how they came to recognize and promote the unique quality of New York State wines. You will learn about cool climate viticulture, the wine varietals of NYS, and much more about the wine industry of New York and how it became a passion project for Hardiman and a core tenet of the mission of his business.

February 25, 2023

Scott Brinitzer '85, one of Hamilton Arboretum's advisory committee members, will share his 34 years of experience as a landscape architect as he discusses the importance of trees, and how culture, public policy, and the environment are directing tree selection and planting. His landscape architecture and garden design firm based in Arlington, Virginia, Scott Brinitzer Design Associates, has worked with individual homeowners, neighborhoods, and county officials to plant hundreds of trees. Scott's designs and projects have won awards such as the APLD International Gold, Monrovia International Landscape Design, and Arlington Excellence in Design. His work has been featured in Better Homes & Gardens and This Old House.

February 11, 2023

Jason Townsend will discuss modern orchard sustainability, focusing on apples, including grafting techniques and New York’s burgeoning group of small farm hard cider crafters. Jason is a farmer passionate about producing high-quality, sustainable, local food. He will also tell us about the apple tree varieties and cultural techniques that have his 500+ tree organic orchard thriving at Kingfisher Farm, the certified organic vegetable and fruit farm his family owns in Oneida County. Jason is also a conservation biologist and Professor of Instruction in biology at Hamilton. He has done fieldwork in the Dominican Republic, Haiti, California, Hawai'i, New Hampshire, and New York. He is particularly interested in the wildlife benefits of organic and sustainable farming techniques. His farming work focuses on agroecology and sustainability at the local level, and he has managed farms in the Hudson Valley, Finger Lakes, and California’s Central Valley. Many current and former Hamilton students have worked on Kingfisher Farm to experience a sustainable farming operation first-hand.

November 19, 2022

Did you know…? A mushroom is the fleshy, fruiting body of a fungus, and a toadstool generally denotes one poisonous to humans. Some researchers view historical mushroom use primarily as a facilitator for shamanic or spiritual experiences, positing that the ingestion of psilocybin (a compound produced by more than 200 species of fungi) was perhaps primary in the formation of language and culture and identifying psychedelic mushrooms as the original “Tree of Knowledge.”

Thomas Horton is a professor of mycorrhizal ecology at SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse. His research interests include the development and use of techniques to identify fungi and symbiotic relationships between fungi and plants. Horton received the 2014 William A. Weston Award for Excellence in Teaching from the Mycological Society of America.

October 8, 2022

Ernest Cavallo has spent the last decade studying Galanthus, or snowdrop, including experimenting with cultivars, identifying best practices to encourage blooming and multiplication, and propagating and selling rare specimens. Through his own research and information from the generous Galanthus community in the UK, he has learned much which he is eager to share. Born and raised in New Jersey by non-gardening parents, Ernie discovered the soil as a young man in his twenties and has never had clean hands since. The month before he retired from a position in the NY State Court System in 2008, he read an article in The Garden about Colesbourne Park in the UK. He decided to treat himself to a trip and fell in love with Galanthus. He has 40 years of gardening experience, is a New York Botanical Garden volunteer, and is a member of the NYBG Horticulture Committee.

September 10, 2022

Every landscape comes with its own set of challenges. Success comes when you figure out how to make it work despite them. At first glance, some sites can seem impossible, but damp boggy areas, dry shade, root-ridden soil, deer, and other planting nightmares don’t have to stop you from having a beautiful garden. Matching the plants to the site is the key to ensuring an attractive, sustainable landscape. Garden designer Christine Froehlich has done her fair share of banging her shovel against rocks, roots, and clumpy clay soil and trying to figure out what plants have a chance of surviving. Close observation of plants in their natural habitat and willingness to experiment have played an important role in her work. She’ll take you through the process of identifying the limitations of a site, working with it, and choosing the appropriate plants. Her slide lecture shows the transformation of various seemingly impossible spots into beautiful and sustainable landscapes.

2021-22 Speakers

April 23, 2022

In an intriguing, empowering presentation based on her best-selling Timber Press titled How to Eradicate Invasive Plants, Teri discusses weeds and invasive plants in the minds of gardeners, landscapers, park managers, and more. Geared towards the layperson, Teri defines “weed,” and discusses the scope of the problem and what gardeners can realistically expect to achieve in their battle. She reviews various low- and non-toxic ways to fight back, saving herbicides for last. The presentation includes short profiles and a discussion of 10-12 common problem plants in the region. Teri has over 35 books in publication, and her latest title, Landscaping for Dummies, was released in the Spring of 2022. Raised in Santa Barbara, California, and educated at Bard College in New York, she resides in a small village in the heart of central New York’s farm country.

March 23, 2022

This presentation by John Rogers includes the life history of the Eastern Bluebird and other birds that nest in bluebird boxes, nest box management, and more. While the focus is on bluebirds, John also shares his love for the natural world in hopes the audience will take away some broader and deeper messages about nature. The program has variety and is sprinkled throughout with a few wildflowers, butterflies, other birds, and quotes by some of the great naturalists of the past. John Rogers has maintained a trail of bluebird nest boxes in central NY north of Syracuse for over four decades. He has presented bluebird programs and workshops for hundreds of organizations in 12 states and 2 Canadian provinces.

February 19, 2022

Jim Chamberlain of the U.S. Forest Service will discuss his research into the non-timber forest products industry, including food, medicine, floral, and decorative products. To manage biodiversity, we must consider the understory vegetation harvested for subsistence and commercial gain. People who harvest these products often represent a part of society that lives on the economy's margins. They rely on plants for income to make it through rough times, and for many families, the consumption of these products helps to ensure food security. Sustainable management of forest resources ensures that they remain available to members of society in perpetuity.

January 29, 2022

Get more bang and less backbreaking maintenance with amazing perennials, flowering shrubs, and annuals that provide much more color than commonly planted varieties. Plus, learn about underused beauties (many of which are native) that are pollinator-friendly and often require less water. Enjoy more time relaxing with family and friends as they admire your handiwork! Kerry Ann Mendez is an award-winning garden designer, author, and owner of Perennially Yours. She has given lectures, workshops, and classes to more than 40,000 gardeners in 21 states and Canada.

November 20, 2021

Dr. Neil Pederson, a researcher at Harvard and an ecologist with the Harvard Forest, will describe how scientists access the memories of trees using tree-ring analysis or dendrochronology. He studies how tree rings have provided centuries’ worth of precise, annual, and seasonal details of climate, ecology, and competition. He will discuss how we can determine when wood was cut for a building, how we can re-imagine the development of the oldest forests in our eastern North American landscape, and how trees could be flexible enough to withstand some of the extreme weather events we can expect in the future.

2020-21 Speakers

May 8, 2021

Jan Johnsen is a professional landscape designer and a principal of the established design/build firm Johnsen Landscapes & Pools in Westchester County, NY. Jan is trained in landscape architecture and professional horticulture and has taught at Columbia University and the New York Botanical Garden. Her firm’s work has been featured in Garden Design Magazine, Landscape Architecture, East Coast Home and Design, This Old House, and others. In her presentation, Jan shares creative and practical ways to use natural stone in the garden, from rock gardens to dry streams, and as benches, art, paths, and more.

Watch the recording | April 24, 2021

A passionate beekeeper for almost a decade, Scott Hart can answer almost any question from aspiring or experienced beekeepers. He has worked to maintain hives for the past eight years with no treatment. Scott also makes his own queens and strives for genetics to help drive the bees past the huge issue of varroa mites. A recent sampling of his hives proved he was on the right track: his hives had some of the lowest numbers of mites out of all the hives that were tested in NY state. Join us and ask any questions you have about bees! Check out Scott’s Adopt-A-Hive Program.

Watch the Recording | March 20, 2021

Hamilton College Professor of Art Rebecca Murtaugh will talk about foraging botanical color from campus flowers and trees, our kitchens, and our compost piles to make natural dyes for sustainable artmaking. She’ll show images and discuss artworks by renowned artists who use plant-based palettes and feature sculptures by Hamilton students in her new Art & the Environment course.

January 16, 2021

Steve Bick is a father, a forester, and sometimes a writer and researcher. He has a BS and MS from SUNY-ESF and a PhD in forest management and economics from Virginia Tech. He and his family make their home in the southwestern Adirondack Mountains. Steve is a self-employed forestry consultant and works on a wide range of projects, including stewardship planning, conservation easements, valuations, income tax work, and wood energy research. He is the author of eight books on forestry and conservation topics, as well as many technical articles. He is also the director of the Vermont Forest Business School. Steve has been working in Hamilton College’s forests since 2016.

2019 - 2020 Speakers

April 11, 2020

Amy Ziffer, the owner of A Shady Lady Garden Design, has been helping clients in Connecticut with their gardening needs, as well as sharing her extensive gardening experience through lectures and demonstrations, since 1998. Amy is a former editor at Fine Gardening magazine and a Master Gardener. Her garden writing and photography can be seen in Fine Gardening, Horticulture, and Yankee magazines, Reader’s Digest books, and other publications. Amy’s specialty is cold-climate ornamental gardening in the Northeast United States.

February 15, 2020

Chris Luley is the president/pathologist of Urban Forest Diagnostics in Naples, New York. Luley has provided urban forestry consulting services throughout his 35-plus-year career in urban forestry and arboriculture. He specializes in urban forest management, tree diagnostics, and decay assessment, and has the advanced diagnostic equipment to test trees for internal decay. This presentation will explore the many aspects of wood decay fungi, from the ones that mean a tree is in serious trouble, to those that can be used in medicinal preps or eaten for dinner. *Note: This lecture qualifies for ISA CEU credit.

January 18, 2020

Christine Froehlich has had a long career in horticulture. She’ll share her expertise, first as a gardener, then after training at the New York Botanical Garden, as the owner of a garden design and maintenance company, which she operated for 25 years in Connecticut. She has published articles in Fine Gardening, American Gardener, Country Gardens, American Nurseryman, The Upstate Gardeners Journal, 585 Magazine, and Rochester Magazine. After moving to upstate New York, she taught classes at the Rochester Civic Garden Center and later served as their executive director. She continues to work as a garden designer, consultant, and lecturer.

2018 - 2019 Speakers

May 4, 2019

Darryl has been a member of the Ikenobo school of ikebana (Japanese flower arranging) for over 35 years. In his 32 years in Japan, he studied Ikenobo with a teacher at her home in Kyoto, where he acquired his teaching license. While in Japan, he also participated in international workshops in Japan, Canada, and the USA, attended lectures and demonstrations by the Headmaster and highly-ranked professors, and was chosen to exhibit his arrangements at the Ikenobo headquarters in Kyoto, Japan. He will give a presentation introducing himself and the Ikenobo school in addition to explaining some of his interesting experiences. Ikenobo is the oldest school of Japanese flower arranging, so old and new styles of arrangements will be discussed.

April 6, 2019

Karen Bussolini’s presentation gives gardeners simple, intuitive ways of thinking about combining plants that anyone can use easily – without angst or a color wheel. Starting with simple combinations, and an explanation of how the gardener uses color or texture, gesture, light-reflecting qualities, repetition, color echoes, and other qualities, the talk progresses to more complex schemes.

January 26, 2019

Fred joins our series again! Fred is a certified, award-winning arborist with over 26 years of experience in the green industry. He is a recognized speaker on both campuses and radio shows. His most frequented radio show, WAMC’s VOX Pop Radio Show, even nicknamed him “Tree Man,” affirming his legacy within the Capital District. His presentation focuses on developing and maintaining healthy plants so they become less susceptible to problems.

October 20, 2018

Matthew Benson’s new book Growing Beautiful Food: A Gardener’s Guide to Cultivating Extraordinary Vegetables and Fruit highlights that with the paradigm shift toward local and homegrown food, gardeners and foodies have come to relish beautiful vegetable gardens and beautiful meals. He writes that beauty inspires behavior, and he believes that we can and will eat better, be healthier, and live more sustainably when we grow food that is visually enticing.

2017-18 Speakers

April 28, 2018

Marta McDowell lives, writes, and gardens in Chatham, New Jersey. She shares her garden with her husband, Kirke Bent, their crested cockatiel, Sydney, and assorted wildlife. Her garden writing has appeared in popular publications such as Woman's Day, Fine Gardening, and the New York Times. Scholars and specialists have read her essays on American authors and their horticultural interests in the journals Hortus and Arnoldia. Marta will discuss, among other things, her new book on Laura Ingalls Wilder.

March 17, 2018

Kathryn Aalto is a landscape designer, historian, lecturer, and nonfiction writer. She has written two books, including the New York Times bestselling The Natural World of Winnie-the-Pooh: A Walk through the Forest that Inspired the Hundred Acre Wood (Timber Press). Her presentation will be focused on the natural world of Winnie-the-Pooh. For the past 25 years, her focus has been on places where nature and culture intersect: teaching literature about nature and place, designing gardens, and writing about the natural world.

February 17, 2018

Leon Ginenthal has been growing roses for 30 years, and 12 years ago he built Der Rosenmeister Nursery on what was once a hilly hayfield. Leon grows many varieties of roses, both new and old, and starts them all in a specialty blend of GreenTree soil. The rose-selling season lasts from May to July 4th. In addition to working for the Ithaca City School District, Leon also grows bonsai trees and raises white pigeons for release at local events. It is evident from the terraces of Der Rosenmeister Nursery that he also has a passion for re-purposing old treasures.

January 27, 2018

Fred Breglia is the executive director of the Landis Arboretum and a certified arborist with more than 26 years of experience in the green industry. He is a nationally known, award-winning arborist, frequent speaker, and educator. Capital District residents know him well as the “Tree Man,” a regular guest on WAMC’s Vox Pop Radio Show. Breglia has been employed for more than 15 years at Landis Arboretum.

November 11, 2017

Harvey Buchite has been growing peonies for over 40 years. He and his wife operate Hidden Springs Flower Farm in Spring Grover, Minnesota, where they grow over 600 varieties of peonies, including many rare Saunders peonies. As a published author of many articles on peonies, his research helps to bring you a wealth of new peony information in a practical, easy-to-understand, and colorful format. Enjoy an unprecedented presentation of 72 of Dr. Saunders’ landmark and historic herbaceous peony creations developed while he was a professor at Hamilton College. Harvey also developed a presentation that features a wide range of woody peonies created by Dr. Saunders that form the basis of many modern lutea tree peony hybrids we enjoy today.

October 21, 2017

Teri Dunn Chace is a writer and editor with over 35 titles in publication. She has also written, edited, and blogged extensively for four major consumer gardening/outdoor-living publications (Horticulture, North American Gardener, Backyard Living, and Birds and Blooms). She is the award-winning “Bottom Line Personal” newsletter’s gardening expert and contributes regularly. Raised in California and educated at Bard College in New York, she resides in a small upstate New York village with glorious summers and snowy winters. “Seeing Flowers” is an engrossing, narrated hour-long talk based on her best-selling Timber Press title of the same name. Learn why flowers look and behave the way they do, why certain plants are placed in certain families, and how pollination works, plus some amazing and entertaining stories from the era of plant hunters. View gorgeous photographs by Robert Llewellyn (she will explain his “image-stacking” technique).

Past Workshops and Events

2023-24 Saturday Speaker Series

Birds and Their Habitats in Central New York: A Diverse Avian Community with Matt Perry

Honey, I Shrunk the Lawn with Judith Fetterley

GMOs: History, Myth, and Science with Natalie Nannas, PhD

Seeing Flowers: Discovering the Hidden Life of Flowers with Teri Dunn Chace

Seeing the Forest for the Trees: Climate Action at Hamilton College with Aaron Strong, Ph.D.

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2019 - 2020 Speakers

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Past Workshops and Events

2023-24 Saturday Speaker Series

Birds and Their Habitats in Central New York: A Diverse Avian Community with Matt Perry

Honey, I Shrunk the Lawn with Judith Fetterley

GMOs: History, Myth, and Science with Natalie Nannas, PhD

Seeing Flowers: Discovering the Hidden Life of Flowers with Teri Dunn Chace

Seeing the Forest for the Trees: Climate Action at Hamilton College with Aaron Strong, Ph.D.

2023-24 Speakers

Growing Cut-Flowers with Horticulturalist Nell Gardner

Hamilton College Landscape Master Plan with Glen Valentine

The Art of Upcycling with Robert Fry

Native Plant Garden Design with Maggie Reilly

Sustainability through Land & Forest Stewardship with Brian Hansen, Director of Environmental Protection, Safety, and Sustainability

Seasonal Changes in Nature with Ernest Williams, Professor Emeritus of Biology

2022-23 Speakers

“Changing Seasons: What Happens to Plants in a Less Predictable World?” with Peter Guiden

“A Farm-to-Table Eatery Takes a Leap of Faith…How We Came to Support NYS Wines” with Tim Hardiman

“Tree Planting Today” with Scott Brinitzer ’85

“Modern Orchard Sustainability” with Jason Townsend

“A Survey of Mushroom Use by Humans: From Neolithic and Chinese Medicine to Current Psychotherapy” with Thomas Horton

“Galanthophilia, A Good Kind of Love” with Ernest Cavallo

“Imperfectly Perfect: How to Garden In Impossible Places” with Christine Froehlich

2021-22 Speakers

“The War of the Weeds” with Teri Dunn Chace

“Bluebirds -- And More!” with John Rogers

“Sustainable Management of Forest Products” with James Chamberlain

“Power Up Garden Beauty, Power Down Garden Maintenance” with Kerry Ann Mendez

“How Might Our Forests Change in Response to Climate Change? One Clue is Their History” with Neil Pederson

2020-21 Speakers

“The Spirit of Stone” with Jan Johnsen

“Why We Need Bees” with Scott Hart

“Foraging for Vibrant Color” with Rebecca Murtaugh

“Where Did All of These Crows Come From? The Migration and Behavior of Utica’s Crows” with Andrea Townsend

“Forests of Hamilton College: An Iconography of Thunder-Beings” with Steve Bick

2019 - 2020 Speakers

“Ornamental Gardening” with Amy Ziffer

“Wood Decay Fungi or Is Your Tree in Trouble?”* with Chris Luley

“Gardening With What You Have” with Christine Froehlich

“Edible Landscapes – For Health, Habitat, Families and the Future” with John Forti

“Seeing Seeds: A Journey into the World of Seedheads, Pods, and Fruit” with Teri Dunn Chace

2018 - 2019 Speakers

“Ikenobo” with Darryl King

“Jazzing Up the Garden with Color, Contrast, and Movement” with Karen Bussolini

“The Forests of Hamilton College” with Steve Bick

“Plant Health Care: The Most Recent in Pruning, Planting, and Mulching” with Fred Breglia

“Gardening Simplified: Exceptional Plants and Design Solutions for Busy and Maturing Gardeners” with Kerry Ann Mendez

“Growing Beautiful Food: A Gardener’s Guide to Cultivating Extraordinary Vegetables and Fruit” with Matthew Benson

2017-18 Speakers

“The World of Laura Ingalls” with Marta McDowell

“The Natural World of Winnie-the-Pooh” with Kathryn Aalto

“All About Roses” with Leon Ginenthal

“Building Soils for Better Results in all Locations” with Fred Breglia

“The Herbaceous Peonies and Woody Peonies of Dr. A.P. Saunders” with Harvey Buchite

“Seeing Flowers” with Teri Dunn Chace

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