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The Guide to Creative and Sustainable Garden and Landscape Design
 

MAY

Featured
Matthew Barney: Redoubt
Foxglove week
National Plant Collection of Crassula
National Plant Collection of Euphorbias
Spring Plant Fair: Helmingham Hall Gardens
A Virtual Garden Tour of Jardins de Métis-Reford Gardens, QC
Beuys' Acorns
Species and ecological processes – taxonomy and traits in the workings of nature
Heuchera, × Heucherella, Tiarella Open Weekend at Plantagogo
Behind-The-Scenes: A Curator's Perspective
Featured
Talk: Chinese Gardens - Design and Symbolism
Eternal Forest Deep Listening
Heritage and the Environment
Primula auricula - Theatre time!
Healing Relationships with the Natural World with Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer
Remember the Future
Biodiversity and Cities
Unforgettable Gardens - Stories from Community Gardens
Armchair Walks Chapter 2 - Shared Ecologies
FOLAR talks - Women in Landscape Architecture: Brenda Colvin
LISW Webinar - Establishing and Maintaining Wildflowers Successfully
Artistic approaches to the echoes of fossil fuels
Equality, Diversity and Inclusivity in the Outdoors
Architectural Relations in a Climate Emergency
Online talk: Can biodiversity make children happy?
Other Voices in Garden History - Working Towards Inclusive Botanic Gardens
Subject/Object: The Birds festival ticket
Alan Gray and East Ruston Vicarage
Plant Gall Survey on Tooting Common
Global Small Talks Excellence in Design: Wild Contexts
Creating a Therapeutic Garden
Roman frontiers in their landscape settings' with David Breeze
Grey to Green: Panel Discussion
An Evening with Adam Frost - My Passion for Gardening
Sowing the Future: The Next Epoch Seed Library
Zsuzsanna Ihar, "Multispecies Mediations in a Post-Extractive Zone"
Munro Lecture: What scale is the Anthropocene? by Prof Anna L. Tsing
Perspectives on photography, architecture and the social landscape
Glorious Geums
Alternative to Crisis - Indigenous perspectives of the end of the world
Featured
Urban Tree Festival
Elizabeth-Jane Burnett - Of Sea - live reading
Edible, Easy Eco-Gardening with Alys Fowler
The elms of Nine Elms and beyond
RHS Virtual Chelsea Flower Show
Crisis & Hope. Landscape as Possibility
Jo Thompson talk at LCGD
Armchair Walks Chapter 1 - Landscape Healing
Fungus Amongus: common mushrooms in England
Concept To Completion: Andy Sturgeon
Art Down Under
FOLAR Talks - Women in Landscape Architecture: Susan Jellicoe
Yorkshire arboretum and its plant collections
Secret World of Plants
Other Voices in Garden History - Telling Tales about Trees
Dr. Jane Goodall in Conversation with Peter Wohlleben
Sketchbook Saturday
A Tree Walk in Kennington Park
A Broken Covenant: Sheffield’s WWI Living Memorials
Connection to Nature
The Earliest Botanic Gardens in the Middle East by Shahina Ghazanfar
Mass mindfulness - Jan van Kessel's nature tables
Wonderful wisteria
Seaspiracy Film Screening and discussion (online)
LAKE: The Landscape Architects Knowledge Exchange
Planting in a damp woodland - Tom Hoblyn
The Life of Lines with Tim Ingold
Re-Imagining A Greener City
Tokachi Millennium Forest: Dan Pearson + Midori Shintani
Unforgettable Gardens - The Wandsworth (un)Common Story
Featured
FOLAR Talks - Women in Landscape Architecture: Diana Armstrong Bell
Searching for London's lost rivers with Dr Tom Bolton
Rough Trade In-Conversations: Claire Ratinon, Sam Ayre and Zakiya Mckenzie
The Darker Side of Plants
LI Webinar: Managing Surface Water: Busting the Myths About SuDS
Other Voices in Garden History - Collecting with Lao Chao
Tree Walk – Battersea Park
Dawyck Botanic Garden' by Graham Stewart
Maggie’s at The Royal Marsden
Suzanne Simard and David Haskell - Finding the Mother Tree
A Year in the Life of a Great Fen Restoration Officer
Gardens of the Late 17th Century
Jonathan Drori, Sarah Raven and Tim Smit on the stories of plants
Floral Collectivism
Art Book Club: Land Art
Future Fungi - How fungi can feed the world and repair our ecosystem
PermEzone in East Africa
A Scottish Flora : A History of Scotland as told by its plants
Green Swamp Webinar
Unforgettable Gardens - London Squares
Planet Microbes
Environmental Justice: Creating Clean and Healthy Communities for All
Taxonomy workshop, with Barry Clarke
Cutting Up Bushes: The Art of Pearl Fryer
Essential: Public Health, Public Space, & the Design of Boston's Big Parks
Other Voices in Garden History - The Work of Ingrid Pollard
Gertrude Jekyll Garden – Vann in Godalming, Surrey
Plant Fair: Denbies Wine Estate
Specialist Plant Fair - Highgate, London
Mentha

APRIL

Featured
Saving Denmans Garden
Circularity, Entropy, Ecological Conflicts and “Unburnable Fuels
Professor Corinne Fowler Inaugural Lecture
Soil Properties, Climate Change and Bloom Applications
Pedagogies for Future Practice
LI London AGM: Afoot Around London
Spring Botany Talk
Plant Diversity and Ecosystem Services on Abandoned Urban Lands
Reading Japanese Gardens: Learning To See Gardens As They Are
A Tale of Three Gardens – The Courts, Bodnant and Sissinghurst
Unforgettable Gardens, Wales - National Botanic Garden
Plumbing the Depths of a Bog
Peonies
Our wild cities - Biodiversity in London
All about trees! by Tony Kirkham
Hepworth Spring Fower Festival
LI Webinar: Planning for Long Term Urban Resilience
Lockdown gardens
Other Voices in Garden History - Learning from the Blackamoor
300 years of fieldwork: the plants of Cambridgeshire & the World in 1 room!
Garden Museum Spring Plant Fair
LISW AGM and Webinar - A Landscape Contractor's Perspective
Around the World in 80 Plants
Growing the next generation of Botanists
Michael Marder: 'Plant Habitats'
Freshkills Park, World’s Largest Landfill-to-Park
Public Art in a Post-Growth World
Featured
Celebrating Spring Flowering Quince (Chaenomeles) by David Ford
Blak Outside - Creative Resilience
Permaculture on Sark, by Helen Magell
The Garden Jungle - a talk by Dave Goulson
Botanical Taxonomy and the Naming of things
SciSpark 2021
Epimediums and Friends -  Sally Gregson
Hergest Croft Gardens
LI Webinar: Bespoke Playscapes
Ecology, Ancestral Healing, and Visual Art
Material Futures Symposium
Ecofeminism Lunch & Learn
Other Voices in Garden History - Historic Landscapes for All
Permeability and the Picturesque: British Country Houses at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century
University of Oxford Botanic Garden - 400 years of gardening and botany
SGD Conference - Our Future Health: how to unlock the restorative power of nature
Rhododendron Week: A Spring Visit to the Sikkim Himalaya
Art History Lecture: Great Houses and their Gardens
Rhododendron Week: The Propagation and Cultivation of Rhododendrons
The story of Britain's three tree cathedrals
Rhododendron Week: The NBG, Kilmacurragh - A Family History
Hidden in plain sight – amazing semi-natural grasslands
Unforgettable Gardens, Wales - Plas Cadnant
Steve Edney: Plants for the Dry Garden
A Galician Journey: Camellias in Six Spanish Gardens on the Camellia Route
Plant Blindness: How to put plants back in the picture
Harriet Tubman: The Ultimate Outdoorswoman
Art and Craft of Garden Design
Shara Hughes in Conversation with Katy Hessel
Kim Wilkie - The English Landscape Revolution
Featured
Other Voices in Garden History - Guns and Roses
Gertrude Jekyll - 'My Adventure in Restoring her Inspiring Garden Art'
A Sense of Harmony: Gardens of the Arts and Crafts Movement
Rosemary Verey: her contribution & legacy to C20th gardening
Mount Congreve Gardens: an Irish Treasure, by Paddy Tobin
Flowers for the House: The Story of the Cutting Garden by Catherine Horwood
Walking Festival of Sound: Artist Walks / Barry Truax
The Landscape Art Legacy: Thomas Cole & The Hudson River School' Webinar
Shrubs of Distinction' by John Negus
An Evening with Joel Ashton - Wild About Gardens
The Story of the British Oak
The process behind a garden design project
Gorgeous geraniums
Rewild - Restore - Reconnect: Resilient, nature-based landscapes
Unforgettable Gardens, Wales
Olmsted's Parks, the Right of Assembly, and Black Lives Matter
Ken Smit‪h
The Active Landscape – The design tools to trigger lifelong active habits
Virtual Tour - Hampstead Garden Suburb: Arts Crafts and Idealism
Five Seasons: The Gardens of Piet Oudolf Film Screening
WFoS 2021 Opening Event & Performance / Transference
 Nature and Quran journaling with Sidrah Malik
How can we make space for nature? A live Q&A
Bringing nature in – biophilic and living design
A Feminist's Guide To Botany: Online Botanical Painting Session
April Fool’s Day Quiz at Garden Masterclass
Landscape Seminar: Kate Orff: ‘Toward an Urban Ecology’
Earth Day Symposium 2021: Climate Change
Dan Pearson and Midori Shintani: Tokachi Millennium Forest
Black Landscape Matter - Dr. Walter Hood

MARCH

Featured
Sir Charles Burrell – Rewilding at Knepp Castle, West Sussex
reFrame : Weaving Indigenous Perspectives in Design
Astounding Asteraceas, by Andrew Ward
Princes of the Vegetable Kingdom: Palms and the Making of Kew
Spring Webinar Series – A Perspective on Regenerative Horticultural Practices – Dimitrisz Sopisz MCIHort
Rewilding Arcadia
Prairie Gardens in the heart of West Sussex
Whose Landscapes?
Welsh Gardens and the Grand Tour
Featured
Ear to the Ground - Black Women in Horticulture
Plant Combinations, by Alan Gray
Landscape Imaginary - Artist Talk
On Time and Water
Art and Science for a Future Planet
Women in Landscape Architecture
The Dutch Wave: California Style
Creative Conversations
Heywood & Condie - This Land
Five Seasons: The Gardens of Piet Oudolf
Rewilding the Future
A short history of bees and flowers: the first 150 million years
Larry Weaner: Music Composition and Landscape Design - ONLINE
Let's Talk About Our Trees
A Wild Lecture with James Hitchmough, Professor of Horticultural Ecology
Japanese Flowering Cherries, by Chris Sanders VMH
History, equity and inclusion in the garden
Spring into Action! Sustainable Gardening with Kate Burtonwood
National Botanic Gardens - Dare to be Wild
Spring Webinar Series – Carbon Capture Rating, how do tree species compare?
Unforgettable Gardens - the Gardens at Plaz Metaxu, North Devon
"Black Joy" - The Black Reconstruction Collective
Stewardship of Country - From Past to Future
Phytogenesis: entanglements in more-than-human worlds
Women in Botany
Dundreggan: History of a Rewilding Adventure
ATLAS Lunchtime Talks: Mhairi Killin
Nature’s Best Hope
Featured
Cross Boundaries - The Interdiscipliary Approach to Design
Debating... Mental Health
An Introduction to Integrated Landscape and Ecological Management Plans
Li Greener Recovery Festival
A World Water Day Event Hidden water: valuing water we cannot see
Seasonal cut flower gardening
Ian Hamilton Finlay’s ‘Improvement Garden’ at Stockwood Park, Luton
Frederick Law Olmsted's Influence on Springfield Massachusetts
BGHG Study Day Lecture Series Plant Collections: snapshots on a timeline
Gardens of the Early 17th Century
Crocus for all seasons, by Tony Goode and Tom King
 -Laura Grace Ford & Sam Williams
The Thousand Year Wood: Humans and Trees Growing Together
National Botanic Gardens - Nifty Natives Live Streamed Tour
 Recent Archaeological Discoveries at Stowe
Landscape Seminar: Vittoria Di Palma and Tim Waterman
Radical Acts of Cultural Fluorescence
Spring Webinar Series – ‘So You Want to be a Plastic-Free Gardener?’ – Fiona Thackeray
The Golden Thread - How to set up your work with the end result in mind
William Kent: Garden Designer, Architect, Interior Designer
Tree Identification for Beginners
The future of seeds at Kew's Millennium Seed Bank - celebrate their 20th anniversary, by Janet Terry
Garsington, Rodmell and Sissinghurst: Three Sanctuaries
The Golden Afternoon Of Gardens And Artists - Gertrude Jekyll
Britt Zuckerman: The Healing Power of Nature and Design - ONLINE
Online Apple Grafting Course
‘Rising Stars: Spectacular Sea Hollies’ by Brian & Kathy Pike
Plant Hunting in the Himalayas
Plants that Pay Rent - by Dr John Grimshaw
Sowing the Seeds
Featured
Seminar Series 2021 – Understanding Horticulture for Health and Well-being - Building on Research
Seminar Series 2021 - Insights and Techniques: Developing a Therapy Garden
The Gilded Age Houses & Gardens of the Hamptons' Webinar
Soils - Recapturing Carbon with Agriculture
Decolonising the Garden: A Panel Discussion
Webinar on The new EU Forest Strategy Public Consultation Process
Analeptic Landscape
Green Concrete - Building with Carbon
Chaparral Fire Ecology & Fire-Following Plants Around Us
The Remarkable Miss. Jekyll' by Cherrill Sands
Seminar Series 2021 – Horticulture and Therapy in the United States
Seminar Series 2021 - Important Social Spaces
Seminar Series 2021 – Healing Garden at an orphanage in Lima
Around Britain in 20 ferns and allies
Spring Webinar Series – A Perspective on Growing Media in the UK in 2021 – Catherine Dawson
Stewardship of Country - Resilience and Regeneration
The Earth in Her Hands: 75 Extraordinary Women Working in the World of Plants with Jennifer Jewell
LI NW Landscape Visualisation: RHS Bridgewater by University of Salford
Grasslands as Carbon Sinks - Can Cows help Sequester Carbon?
Unforgettable Gardens
Oldway past, present and future
Urban bat ecology and conservation – an online talk by Jo Ferguson
Forests - Natural Carbon Sequestration
The Golden Afternoon Of Gardens And Artists - The Cottage Garden
Advolly Richmond: The Rev. Thomas Birch freeman, Victorian Botanist and Plantsman
Seminar Series 2021 – Social and Therapeutic Horticulture in Spain
Seminar Series 2021 – Therapeutic gardening has been making small headways in France
Seminar Series 2021 - Horatio's Gardens, improving the lives of those affected by spinal injury
Seminar Series 2021 - Therapeutic Horticulture Movement In Singapore
Exploring the botanical wonders of the Overberg Renosterveld
Featured
Carbon Capture and Storage - Engineered Carbon Sequestration
The global and local significance of Mangrove forests
Pathfinder Carbon Calculator tool
A Primer in Women’s History of Horticulture
Galanthus Gala 2021 Virtual Event--March 5 & 6
Recycling and Regenerative Design in Landscape Architecture
Panel discussion: What will our view of nature bring to the future?
Botany, Race, and Power: The History of Expeditions to Cuba
England’s Post-war Designed Landscapes: Week 8: University Landscapes
World Book Day
Daniel Urban Kiley Lecture: Julie Bargmann, “Modesty”
Green Books- Dave Goulson The Garden Jungle or Gardening to Save the Planet
Designing with Nature and Creating Biodiversity Net Gain
Spring Webinar Series – ‘What I’ve learned during the past year’
Landscape Seminar - Matthew Gandy
Science, Botany, Creativity and Suffragettes!
Permaculture Design Principles in Food Growing
Reading and Writing the Winter Landscape Class
Putting nature at the heart of decision making
Twenty years with Twenty acres – a story of Hurdley Hall
The Agroecological City: Sovereignty, Resilience, and the Future of Food
The Golden Afternoon Of Gardens And Artists - The Old English Garden
Identifying Woody Plants in Winter
Creating the Post Industrial Landscape - Principles and Practice
Learning for the future – biodiversity and net zero as standard
Spring is in the Air
Ben Preston - Head Gardener, York Gate
LI London: Webinar with Alexandra Steed Urban (ASU)
Herbaceous Design Process: Conception, Production and Refinement - Elliott Forsyth
An Evening with Jonathon Porritt
 
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