Marta McDowell's Website
lecture topics

Marta is a popular lecturer. She has informed and amused audiences from the Garden Club of Mount Desert Island, Maine to the Friends of the Cummer Museum of Art in Jacksonville, Florida to the Bird, Tree and Garden Club of the Chautauqua Institution. Click on the title below for a description of the lecture:

  Emily Dickinson's Gardens
  Curves, Carpets and Color: Victorian and Romantic Gardening in America
  Beatrix Jones Farrand: An American Landscape Designer
  Designing Women: Marion Cruger Coffin, Martha Brookes Hutcheson and Ellen Biddle Shipman
  Landscaping Your Historic Home
  Plants With Style: Annuals and Perennials for Sun and Shade
  Frederick Law Olmsted: Parks, Campuses and Communities
  New Ideas from English Gardens
  Then and Now: A Hunt for Historic Gardens
  The Story of Willowwood
  Designing With Edible Plants
  Beatrix Potter's Gardens

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