Webinars take place on Zoom. A link to the webinar will be sent via email upon purchase. All webinars are recorded and access will be provided to all ticket holders after the live webinar.
Dispatches from the Far Reaches: Purchase access to all of our winter lectures for a discounted price here. Read below for a description of the included lectures and guest speakers. $75 for Nonmembers $55 for FRBC Members.
Join John Anderson, Keeper of the Gardens, as he showcases the amazing plants of Windsor Great Park.
John Anderson is the Keeper of the Gardens at Windsor Great Park, part of the Windsor Estate. The park covers 4,800 acres of sweeping parkland, forest, award winning exotic gardens, and ancient woodland. Anderson trained at the National Botanic Gardens in Ireland and studied at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in London. He has held "head gardener" positions at Mount Usher Gardens in Ireland; Inverewe Gardens in Scotland; and Exbury Gardens in England.
$20 for Nonmembers
$15 for FRBC Members
Join Martin Hajman, the head gardener of Arctic-Alpine Botanic Garden in Tromsø, Norway, as he takes us through their collections. The garden displays Arctic and alpine plants from all continents.
$20 for Nonmembers
$15 for FRBC Members
Martin Hajman is the head gardener for the Tromsø Arctic-Alpine Botanic Garden, part of The Arctic University of Norway, far north above the arctic circle. He has participated in large Rock Garden landscape constructions with Bjørn Thon, the man who made Tromsø BG into a rock garden landscape.
Before moving to Tromsø he was head gardener and curator of the historical alpine garden at the Botanic Institute in Pruhonice (UNESCO site), as well as running a small nursery.
He is also a co-founder of the Czech Hardy Plants Society and member of Prague Rock Garden Club, where he learned rock gardening from the masters.
His plant interests change according to season: from early spring he’s a Saxifraga enthusiast, through summer a Cremanthodium-Meconopsis collector, ending with a Gentiana expert while snowing. He has undertaken botanical trips in Europe, Turkey, Georgia, Armenia, Syria, Jordan, South Africa and Tibet…but the best flowers are in Northern Norway.
$20 for Nonmembers
$15 for FRBC Members
This talk will focus on the phylogenetic studies of Trillium using images from field and garden grown plants. Numerous molecular phylogenetic projects will be covered, and these include the overall phylogeny of Trillium, subgeneric classification, and then a focus on the sessile species of subg. Sessilia (formerly Phyllantherum) and subg. Trillium. The recent changes of classification, novel species, and distribution will be covered, and new questions that have arisen because of the results will be briefly discussed.
Dr. Aaron Floden is an Assistant Scientist at Missouri Botanical Garden and is the world authority on the genus Polygonatum. His extensive field work in North America, Vietnam and the Himalaya has resulted in numerous new species from a wide range of genera being described. He combines the best of horticulture being a long-time hands-in-the-dirt gardener with the exacting discipline of botanical science. And not least, he is an Advisor to Far Reaches Botanical Conservancy.
Join New York Times best-selling author Amy Stewart for a sneak preview of her forthcoming book, The Tree Collectors: Tales of Arboreal Obsession, which features interviews with 50 people from around the world, including Kelly Dodson and Sue Milliken. The book will be published by Random House in July 2024.
$20 for Nonmembers
$15 for FRBC Members
Amy Stewart is the New York Times best-selling author of The Drunken Botanist, Wicked Plants, and several other popular nonfiction titles about the natural world. Her books have sold over a million copies worldwide and have been translated into 18 languages. She’s won a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, the American Horticultural Society’s Book Award, and an International Association of Culinary Professionals Food Writing Award. Amy travels the country as a highly sought-after public speaker whose spirited lectures have inspired and entertained audiences at college campuses such as Cornell and Harvard, conferences and book festivals, botanical gardens, bookstores, and libraries nationwide.
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