2019 Topics

Peckerwood Garden Lecture Series Topics

Peckerwood Garden Insider Tour Topics

• January 19: Tex-Mex in the Northwest, The New Frontier for Adaptable Gardens

• January 5, Collections Located Across the Creek

• February 13, “Secret Blow-Your-Mind Organic Gardening Hacks” with Shawna Coronado, Gardening/Wellness Author, Warrenville, IL

• February 2, Late Winter Interest

• March 16, “Having Fun Growing and Killing Cool Plants in Tulsa” with Dr. Todd Lasseigne, President and CEO, Tulsa Botanic Garden, Tulsa, O

• March 2, Spring Highlights at Peckerwood Garden

• April 20, “Candy Iris” with Dr. Yike Gao

• April 6, Collections Located Across the Creek

• May 18, “Wildflowers of Texas” and book signing with Michael Eason, Conservation Botanist, Alpine, TX

• May 4, Lesser Known Trees

• June 15, “New Plants, New Trends at Your Garden Center” with Dr. Allen Owings, Emeritus Professor, LSU AgCenter Hammond Research Station and Horticulturalist, Bracy’s Nursery, LA

• June 1, Ferns of Peckerwood Garden

• July 20, “Plant Collecting in South Africa” with Wade Roitsch, Nursery Manager, Yucca Do Nursery, Giddings, TX

• July 6, Collections Located Across the Creek

• August 17, “Magnolias: Old Favorites, Native Treasures and a World of New Discoveries” with Dr. Gary Knox, Professor – Environmental Horticulture and Extension Specialist in Nursery Crops, University of FL, Quincy, FL

• August 3, Palms and Cycads of Peckerwood Garden

• September 21, TBD

• September 7, Woody lilies of Peckerwood Garden

• October 19, “The Role of Herbaria in Documenting Plant Diversity in Time and Space” with Dr. George Yatskievych, Botanist and Curator of Billie L. Turner Plant Resources Center, University of Texas at Austin

• October 5, Woody lilies of Peckerwood Garden

• November 16, “Texas in Exile – How Texas Natives Have Revolutionized Colorado Landscapes” with Panayoti Kelaidis, Senior Curator and Director of Outreach, Denver Botanic Garden