Lecture, Powerpoint, and artifact presentations available on a wide variety of topics such as:
- Chicago's horticultural heritage
- How to uncover historic landscapes
- Small space gardens - past and future
- Uncovering your landscape legacy
- Olmsted, Wright and Jensen at The Gardener's Cottage
- Native plants - a pleasing plant palette
Topics can be tailored for your group and interests.
Sample list of groups to whom presentations have been given: Chicago Flower & Garden Show at Navy Pier, Chicago Botanic Garden, Millennium Park - Lurie Garden, Tri-Council Garden Clubs, Kenilworth Garden Club, The Morton Arboretum book club, Printer's Row Literary Festival, The Wildflower Society, Frank Lloyd Wright Home & Studio, Lake Forest Historical Society, Des Plaines Public Library, AAUW, Woodley Garden Club, and Oak Park Garden Club, Western Springs Thomas Ford Memorial Library, The Growing Place, Finnegan's Bookstore - Utica, IL.
This area is meant to promote ideas and comments about historic landscapes and gardens. The author greatly respects your privacy, and no personal information is collected for any commercial purpose. Please fill out any fields you wish, and leave any blank. Thank you!
Thursday, December 1, 2011
7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
The Morton Arboretum
Jens Jensen, Frank Lloyd Wright, and My Small Garden
What can you do in a small garden? Join author Cathy Jean Maloney as she takes you on a virtual tour of her own historic cottage with a garden designed by renowned landscape architect Jens Jensen. Designed ca. 1907 for the gardener of a large estate, this Frank Lloyd Wright home was landscaped by Jensen. Discover the enduring influences of the Jensen/Wright collaboration and how Maloney and her family enjoy the naturalistic, small-space garden today. Copies of the author's book, The Gardener's Cottage in Riverside, Illinois, will be available for purchase and author signature.
Contact: The Morton Arboretum's Education Program Registrar at 630-719-2468 or
registrar@mortonarb.org
Sunday, March 18, 2012
Time: TBA
The Chicago Flower and Garden Show
Navy Pier, Chicago
A Century of Fashionable Flowers and Fruits
Heirloom garden trends that shape your plants and patios today
Visit www.chicagoflower.com for updates on this event.
