June 12, 2025
10:30 a.m. Book Talk | 2 p.m. Workshop | NYBG
Celebrated artist, potter, and gardener Frances Palmer encourages the idea of planning and planting a flower garden in waves—ensuring that there is always an abundance of blooms and a continual flow of colors, heights, and shapes that provides endless inspiration throughout the year.
Drawing on insights from her latest publication, Life with Flowers: Inspiration and Lessons From the Garden, Palmer will discuss her approach to gardening, consisting of six growing periods, from prevernal—those late winter days when the first snowdrops and hellebores appear—through summer and fall, with its dahlias and Japanese anemones, to hibernal, as we move back indoors and enjoy forced bulbs and greenhouse flowers. From practical tips to DIY projects, favorite floral recipes, meditations on patience, nature’s unpredictability, and more, join Palmer as she shares her rich and varied experience growing a life with flowers.
In the afternoon, Frances will host a floral arranging workshop. Separate registration is required for this class.
Frances Palmer is a ceramist and Connecticut gardener. She has been growing heirloom dahlias for more than 20 years and is well versed in their care. Her ceramics and flowers have been featured in numerous magazines, and her gardens are part of the Garden Conservancy Open Days program.
Location Mertz Library & Watson Building
Location Mertz Library & Watson Building