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Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 17th, 2011
by Jonah Holland, PR & Marketing Coordinator, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden When I was growing up, my dad spent alot of time listening to the radio. Not just any radio — but a special radio, one that got only one channel — never of music, but always people talking. As a child, I thought this was not [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 19th, 2009
Now that you’ve seen some of our reflections from The Gillette Forum, I thought I’d bring you some audio. This is a recording of Douglas Reed, FASLA, of Hilderbrand Reed Landscape Architects, speaking during one of his presentations titled: Treading Lightly on the Land: Case Studies of Reed Hilderbrand’s Projects. Here is some background on [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 11th, 2009
by Adele MacLean, Program Developer/Special Projects and Jonah Holland PR & Marketing Coordinator The Gillette Forum, the last of Lewis Ginter’s four-part 25th anniversary symposia, was filled with many great stories, images and ideas about how each of us can do our part to create landscapes that are both beautiful and environmentally sustainable. After taking [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 2nd, 2009
By Jonah Holland, PR & Marketing Coordinator, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden I’m pleased to release the last two podcasts featuring Rachel Flynn and Leni Sorensen, who spoke recently at our symposium: Green Tonic: Urban Gardening for Health & Wholeness. Rachel Flynn, the City of Richmond’s Director of Community Development, spoke candidly about what’s working well [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 1st, 2009
By Jonah Holland, PR & Marketing Coordinator, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden I’ve been swept up on the flurry of sending out emails, save the date cards and generally getting the word out about about our next symposium, Timeless Design in a Sustainable World: The Charles F. Gillette Forum. I almost forgot to post the rest [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 9th, 2009
A few weeks ago, Drew Becher, Executive Director of the New York Restoration Project, came to Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden and spoke at our Green Tonic: Urban Gardening for Health & Wholeness symposium about how NYRP has been transforming New York City through there urban greening initiatives. He is a dynamic speaker, and we hope [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 7th, 2009
A few weeks ago, Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden hosted Green Tonic: Urban Gardening for Health & Wholeness as part of our 25th anniversary celebration hosted by the Robins Foundation. Here is the first of several podcasts from that event from the Philadelphia Green panel, including: Blaine Bonham, Jr. Executive Vice President, Pennsylvania Horticulture Society Joan [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 15th, 2009
Lewis Ginter’s Green Tonic symposium last week was a great success. Architects, journalist, concerned citizens, students and urban planners turned out to learn more about urban gardening and how cities like Philadelphia, Chicago and New York have used plants and gardening to transform their landscape. The amazing part to me is that the national urban [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 17th, 2009
What struck me most about Felder Rushing’s presentation last week at our Gardening in an Era of Climate Change symposium was that for him (and for me) gardening is all about nostalgia and doing what you love. It is about plants that have been grown for generations by our grandparents or great grandparents. It is [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 12th, 2009
I’m happy to announce Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden’s first ever podcast. Last week we brought Allan Armitage to the Garden as part of our Gardening in an Era of Climate Change symposium, in celebration of the Garden’s 25th anniversary. What we got was pure inspiration. And an incredibly fun and humorous presentation on how gardening [...]
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