"Women in Horticulture" with Jenny Rose Carey

Thursday, August 6 at 4:00pm 
Garland Farm
$10 members / $20 non-members / free for students

*If you register to attend on Zoom, a link will be sent you separately. Registrations within one hour of the program's start may not be received in time for you to participate live, but you will be sent a recording of the program once the video has been processed and uploaded.

Women have tended and loved their gardens for millennia but their contributions are largely forgotten. In this lecture, Jenny Rose Carey takes a small slice of time, 1900 to 1940, and explores the key women who founded gardening organizations including The Pennsylvania School of Horticulture for Women, The Woman’s National Farm and Garden Association, and The Garden Club of America. Other women discussed include authors, garden designers, conservationists, and dig-in-dirt gardeners.

Carey is an avid hands-on gardener and professional horticulturist. She has served as Director of two public gardens; The Ambler Arboretum of Temple University and the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society’s Garden at Meadowbrook Farm. She is now devoting her time to writing, speaking, and tending her own four-and-a-half-acre garden called Northview where she has lived for over a quarter of a century.