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ADULT EDUCATION FALL 2017–WINTER 2018 Welcome! The New York Botanical Garden is celebrated for its magnificent trees. Some 30,000 of them can be found in our old-growth Thain Family Forest, in our curated collections of conifers and flowering trees, in the landmark Tulip Tree Allée, and in countless other If you have never taken a class with us before… welcome to the catalog. Each section leads off with short, intro locations throughout the Garden’s classes you can take just for fun. As a matter of fact, you may register 250 acres. for any class that doesn’t have a prerequisite, including those labeled “Certificate Elective” or “Certificate Requirement.” This catalog is also packed with trees. Contemporary botanical art If you are a returning student…welcome back! We have dozens of new from the upcoming Triennial exhibition, classes and workshops for you to explore and discover. Out of the Woods: Celebrating Trees If you are on a new career path or thinking about a career change… in Public Gardens, appears throughout. Think about upgrading your professional profile and actively pursuing a Scientific tree specimens grace prestigious NYBG Certificate. Develop new skills, contacts, and cross- the cover and section headers. This disciplinary experience. Catch up with the latest industry changes. A NYBG fall, our Saving the American Ash Certificate is a serious credential that tells employers and clients that you’ve made a serious commitment to your professional development. Summit calls attention to a crisis affecting a beloved species, and a Choose from a wide variety of day, evening, and weekend classes at the special symposium features Peter Garden or at our Midtown Education Center. Our programs are made to fit Wohlleben—author of The Hidden Life your needs, as well as your schedule. of Trees. From Winter Tree ID to Bonsai Workshops to Drawing Conifers, we Registration is now open. Please visit nybg.org/adulted or call 718.817.8747. offer classes that help you identify, Prices listed are Member/Non-Member. Not a Member yet? Call 718.817.8703. care for, and design with trees, as well Need the perfect gift for that plant-loving someone? Purchase a gift certificate as how to draw and photograph them. for a NYBG class today at nybg.org/adulted and give the gift of learning. But there’s more, too! Meet outstanding speakers in our distinguished lecture COVER HERBARIUM SPECIMEN: series. Explore enriching courses in Family: Cupressaceae urban nature, gardening, art, design, Species: Juniperus virginiana and wellness. The acorn you plant Collector’s Field Notes: United States. Maryland. Queen Anne’s Co. MD Rt 309, this fall may grow into a mighty oak Starr Road, at MD Rt. 213, Centreville Road, edge of woods at roadside. in years to come! Wayne Longbottom 24185 9 December 2015 Scientific specimen in the NYBG collection, C. V. Starr Virtual Herbarium Illustration top: ©Jean Emmons, Sorbus gongashanica, watercolor on vellum, University of Washington Botanic Gardens, Seattle, WA Contents 2 Landscape Design Portfolios Lecture Series A Life in Design 3 Winter Lecture Series The Gardener’s Garden 4 A Wilder World: The Plants and Places that Inspired Laura Ingalls Wilder ABOUT THE COVER: The preserved juniper 4 Invasive Species Summit branch on our cover comes from NYBG’s William and Lynda Steere Herbarium—a 5 Saving the American Ash Summit priceless botanical archive of 7.8 million 5 What Plants Can Teach Us plant specimens, and a digital resource for Robin Wall Kimmerer scientists around the world. Herbarium specimens are dried and 5 Humanities Institute Symposium pressed plants that botanists use as Peter Wohlleben, author of The Hidden permanent records of their research. Each Life of Trees one displays unique information on who 7 Botanical Art & Illustration collected it, where, and when. It must include all elements necessary for plant 13 Botany identification (e.g., flowers, fruits, leaves) and be laid out properly to showcase those 16 Crafts & DIY features. The results are frequently very beautiful, and when cared for properly, can 19 Floral Design theoretically last forever. 25 Gardening The Steere Herbarium acquires some 30,000 new specimens each year, collected 33 Horticulture by NYBG scientists and our institutional 39 Horticultural Therapy partners. These new specimens supplement historic collections from major botanists, and 43 Landscape Design from legendary naturalists including Charles Darwin, John Muir, and John J. Audubon. 48 Photography 50 Urban Naturalist 52 Wellness 54 Academic Policies & Procedures 55 Professional Societies, CEUs, & Academic Programs 56 Classes at Midtown Education Center inside back cover Registration & General Information NYBG Herbarium specimen: Liriodendron tulipifera (see page 38) 2 | LANDSCAPE DESIGN PORTFOLIOS LECTURE SERIES 19th Annual Landscape Design Portfolios Lecture Series A LIFE IN DESIGN Outstanding landscape architects and designers from around the world showcase their signature projects, working methods, and design philosophies. This year’s lineup features 3 Mondays, October 16, October 30, a passionate and influential trio, each of whom has an amazing body of work that has November 6, 6:30–7:30 pm transformed cities around the world. Their timeless designs for public spaces, regenerated Scandinavia House, 58 Park Avenue urban sites, and city centers tell stories that resonate on profound emotional, intellectual, at 38th Street, Manhattan and poetic levels—reflecting a deep, personal connection between people and place. SIGNE NIELSEN ARABELLA LENNOX-BOYD LAURIE OLIN Optimistic A Designer’s Eye Public and Private: Landscapes “I don’t like gardens that The Twin Poles A powerful leader in healing immediately present of Landscape post-industrial New York themselves to you. I want Architecture to walk through different City’s landscapes, Signe Renowned landscape spaces, with the vistas Nielsen and her firm, architect Laurie Olin, always changing. There MNLA, have revitalized AFLA, creates elegant has to be a sense of Lincoln Center’s public environments that can mystery.” So says Arabella plazas, restored St. Paul’s seamlessly accommodate Lennox-Boyd, who has historic churchyard, heavy human and vehicular devised the master plan designed landscapes ©Marianne Majerus traffic, while providing around the world for 40 for the South Bronx Greenway, and transformed beautiful, restful spaces from which to watch the years—from strikingly modern rooftops in London more than 22 miles of waterfront into places that world go by. Here in New York City, we experience and Hong Kong to the estates of an English duke, a are restorative for people and natural processes— the transformative nature of his work when we Belgian queen, and Sting. A recipient of six Chelsea including the Tribeca section of Hudson River stride through Columbus Circle or linger in Bryant Gold Medals and the prestigious RHS Veitch Park and Brooklyn’s Fulton Landing. Each of her Park. From the celebrated Washington Monument Memorial Medal, she is a preeminent plantswoman design sites addresses multiple challenges, from Grounds to more recent projects such as the AIA who relishes growing from seed the rare tree and protecting shorelines from the damaging effects award-winning Barnes Foundation and Portland’s shrub specimens she incorporates as structural of climate change to providing communities with Director Park, he and his firm, OLIN, create timeless elements in her designs. She is internationally safe, beautiful gathering spaces. Her current public spaces that celebrate social gatherings, known for her herbaceous borders, perfectly suited focus is Pier 55, a high-profile island park that will natural systems, and urban life. A Guggenheim to their environments and bursting with color, form, be built in the Hudson River. An ASLA Fellow, a Fellow, an ASLA Fellow, an honorary member of and texture—including those on glorious display at professor at Pratt Institute, and president of New the AIA, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Gresgarth Hall, her enchanting home and lifelong York City’s Public Design Commission, Nielsen is Arts and Sciences, Olin is also an award-winning design project. Her most recent work includes the a tireless advocate for policy change that supports author who has written widely on the history and graceful landscape surrounding the Serpentine sustainable, inspiring, diverse urban spaces. Her theory of architecture and landscape. But perhaps Sackler Gallery in London, designed by Zaha Hadid, work has received more than two dozen national surprisingly—even after receiving the NEA’s as well as private residences in Kiev, Greece, design awards and been published extensively in National Medal of the Arts from President Obama— England, and the United States. professional journals and books. Olin remains enthusiastic about residential work, and continues to bring harmony and balance to the October 16 | 182LAN801B October 30 | 182LAN801C outdoor spaces of private homes. November 6 | 182LAN801D ©Elizabeth Felicella ©Marianne Majerus SUSAN COHEN, FASLA, RLA, COORDINATOR OF THE LANDSCAPE DESIGN PROGRAM, ORGANIZED THIS SERIES. Registration fee for each lecture: $23/$26. Register for the series and receive a discount: 182LAN801A l $62/$69 SUPPORT GENEROUSLY PROVIDED BY THE HEIMBOLD FOUNDATION. WINTER LECTURE SERIES | 3 18th Annual Winter Lecture Series THE GARDENER’S GARDEN This year’s series stays close to home—and heart—as three renowned gardeners, plantsmen, and environmental stewards take us inside their own