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Lansing Moore

Adult Education Featured Course: Wallis Wilde-Menozzi

Posted in Adult Education on May 6 2013, by Lansing Moore

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In partnership with the Sarah Lawrence Writing Institute, The New York Botanical Garden is pleased to co-sponsor a unique class lead by author Wallis Wilde-Menozzi, a prolific writer, essayist, and poet. This unique class, “Messages of Late Spring: A Two-Day Writing Workshop” on May 18 and 19 will make use of the unique landscape of the Botanical Garden.

Wilde-Menozzi will lead students throughout Garden grounds, including the Thain Family Forest, Azalea Garden, and the newly opened Native Plant Garden to encourage students to ask questions like, “What are the messages of spring, ‘the cruelest month,’ and yet, what does the message of transformation elicit How can it be put into words?”

Wilde-Menozzi is the author most recently of two books. The first, The Other Side of the Tiber, is a memoir of her many years spent living in Italy. That experience also serves as the backdrop for her second new book, Toscanelli’s Ray, a novel set in Florence.

She shared her thoughts on writing, nature, and a life spent abroad.

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Urban Container Gardening Classes

Posted in Adult Education on April 24 2013, by Lansing Moore

photo (5)[2]In New York City, where space comes at a premium, it helps to live by the mantra “Great things come in small packages,” even when it comes to gardening. Container gardens, tree well plantings, and terrace gardens are the easiest way to add a small-scale garden to the average city apartment, and they can be beautiful, too.

Over the course of two sessions in March, Daryl Beyers showed his class how to get the most out of placing a few plants in a simple pot. The results were these charming, self-contained gardens, perfect for even the most space-starved New Yorker.

If you would like to try your hand at container gardening, the Garden’s Adult Education program is offering two special Saturday sessions in May! “All About Containers” is a daylong boot camp on May 4 in the Bronx and will cover all the basics of container gardening.

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