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2025 Spring Gardening Symposium & Plant Sale

Date: Saturday, January 25, 2025 Time: 8 a.m. – 4 p.m. Fees: $115 ($105 Member) Boxed Lunch $20, optional Prepaid Parking $10, optional Registration Deadline: Jan. 21 Online pre-registration has closed. Limited walk-up registration will… Read More

Alston Lecture: Around the World in 20 Plants

Around the World in 20 Plants: Unlocking the Secrets of Obscure Foods through Ethnobotany  A mushroom that’s narcotic if not prepared correctly, but is also traditionally used in miso soup after fermentation? If cherry stones contain cyanide, how are they the secret ingredient in a delicious Russian cake?… Read More

Alston Lecture: Why Isn’t Nature Equally Available to Everyone?

Nature engagement provides physical, psychological, and social benefits yet access to and use of local nature sites, parks, and greenspace is not always equitable, particularly for communities of color. These impacted neighborhoods typically have fewer street trees planted, are further from parks and other green spaces and, when parks… Read More

Fuqua Lecture: Nature’s Best Hope

Recent headlines about global insect declines and three billion fewer birds in North America are a bleak reality check about how ineffective our current landscape designs have been at sustaining the plants and animals that sustain us.  Such losses are not an option if we wish to continue… Read More

Alston Lecture: Rebecca McMackin

Adventures in Ecological Horticulture Who doesn’t love butterflies? Our gardens can be stunningly beautiful while also providing a habitat for the wildlife that enriches our lives. For ecological horticulturist Rebecca McMackin, cultivating habitat is central to landscape management. In her 10 years as Director of Horticulture at Brooklyn Bridge Park,… Read More

Fuqua Lecture: Margaret Renkl

Author and New York Times columnist Margaret Renkl is joined by Teresa Weaver, former book editor for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Atlanta Magazine, to discuss Renkl’s new book, The Comfort of Crows, and how gardens can be used to create wildlife habitats to fight back against biodiversity loss and even… Read More

Science Café: Dr. Donna McDermott

Feeding on flowers is complicated work. Bees venture out of the colony over and over again, collecting nectar and pollen for themselves and their nest-mates, learning how to identify and manipulate flowers that change throughout the season while dodging predators and parasites. How do bees manage it all? One option… Read More