CT Horticultural Society – David Culp’s “A Bountiful Year”

“A Bountiful Year: Six Seasons of Beauty from Brandywine Cottage”

with David Culp

7:30 pm on Zoom – or join us in person at the Emanuel Synagogue 

(160 Mohegan Drive, West Hartford)

at 7 pm

FREE for members, $10 non member donation

Connecticut Horticultural Society and New England Botanic Garden at Tower Hill are thrilled to be co-sponsoring this event.

David Culp blurs the lines between indoor and outdoor living through his celebrated garden, Brandywine Cottage. In his talk, based on his most recent book of the same name, he offers recipes, a garden to-do list and tips on flower arrangements. He provides his favorite mail order sources and cover gardening for biodiversity and wildlife habitat, and discusses the creation of the meadow at Brandywine Cottage, plants for dry places. He even mentions some of his favorite weeds!

David Culp is the creator of the gardens at Brandywine Cottage in Downingtown, Pennsylvania. He has been lecturing about gardens nationwide for more than 15 years. His articles have appeared in Martha Stewart Living, Country Living, Fine Gardening, Green Scene, and many other publications. He is a former contributing editor to Horticulture magazine and served as chairman of the Mid-Atlantic Hardy Plant Society. He is an herbaceous perennials instructor at Longwood Gardens in Kennett Square, PA.

David has developed the Brandywine Hybrid strain of hellebores, and was recently cited in the Wall Street Journal for his expertise on snowdrops. Brandywine Cottage is listed in the Smithsonian Institution Archives of American Gardens. His best-selling 2013 book, The Layered Garden, was selected by Garden Writers Association as the 2013 Best Overall Book. He is a recipient of the Distinguished Garden Award from the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society 1997 and 2016, and has also been awarded the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society Award of Merit.

• Meeting ID: 889 3432 3912
• Passcode: 819265
• Or call in to join us on the phone: 646-558-8656 (the meeting ID and the passcode are the same for phone calls.)

When you link to the meeting, please choose to not appear on screen. Also, please mute your phone/computer microphone. David’s presentation is what will be visible and heard. His talk will be followed by a question & answer session. Questions must be typed in and the moderator will present the question to David for all to hear. Log in anytime between 7:15 and 7:30, and you will be let in from the Zoom ‘waiting room’ when the presentation is about to start, at about 7:30.

If you can’t join us Thursday, not to worry. David’s talk will be recorded and the link will be sent to all members the week after the meeting. This is just one of the many features of membership – we thank you for supporting our efforts.

If you opt to attend in person, feel free to bring gardening-related items (plants, books, etc.) for our ‘Garden Market’ – all proceeds go directly to our Scholarship Fund.

Enjoy the presentation!

~Mary Anna