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JANUARY 2012

DATE: Saturday, January 28 2012
PRESENTATION: The Layered Landscape: Design Ethics for the Nature of Today's Gardens
EVENT:GLDA Annual Symposium (Irish Garden and Landscape Designer's Association
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LOCATION: Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin, Dublin, Ireland

FEBRUARY 2012

DATE: Thursday, February 23, 2012
PRESENTATION: Elements of Creative Gardening: Experience, Observation and Imagination
EVENT:Rhode Island Spring Flower and Garden Show
LOCATION: Rhode Island Convention Center, Providence, Rhode Island

DATE: Tuesday, February 28 2012
PRESENTATION: The Layered Landscape and the New Wild Garden
EVENT:Garden Club of Virginia Symposium
LOCATION: The Homestead, Hot Springs, Virginia


MARCH 2012

DATE: Tuesday, March 6 2012
PRESENTATION: Looking at Your Livable Landscape
EVENT: Longwood Gardens Livable Landscape Lecture Series in conjunction with the Stroud Water Research Center
LOCATION: Longwood Gardens, Kennett Square, Pennsylvania 19348

DATE: Wednesday, March 21 2012
PRESENTATION: Appreciating Native Azaleas and Rhododendrons In The Wild and In Gardens
EVENT: Massachusetts Chapter of the American Rhododendron Society and Massachusetts Horticultural Society co-sponsored lecture
LOCATION: The Hunnewell Building at Elm Bank Horticulture Center, Wellesley,  Massachusetts


APRIL 2012

DATE: Tuesday, April 10 2012
PRESENTATION: Design for the Nature of Today's Gardens
EVENT: University of Delaware Botanic Gardens (UDBG) Spring Lecture
LOCATION: Townsend Hall Commons, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716

DATE: Tuesday, April 19 2012
PRESENTATION: The Art of Observation: Finding the Extraordinary in the Ordinary
EVENT: Portland Garden Club Special Lecture
LOCATION: Portland, Oregon


MAY 2012

DATE: Thursday, May 3 2012
PRESENTATION: On The High Line
EVENT: Brookside Gardens Lecture
LOCATION: Brookside Gardens, Wheaton, Maryland 20902

DATE: Wednesday, May 9 2012
PRESENTATION: Walking tour of the High Liine with Annik La Farge, coinciding with the launch of the new book On The High Line: Exploring America's Most Original Urban Park
WEBSITE: http://www.thehighline.org/events/all/2012/5/tours-talks-high-line-tour-with-annik-la-farge-and-rick-darke
LOCATION: The High Line, New York, New York, meet at the Gansevoort Street stairs

DATE: Thursday, May 24 2012
PRESENTATION: On the High Line: Exploring America's Most Unique Urban Park
EVENT: Adkins Arboretum special lecture in cooperation with the Academy Art Museum of Easton, Maryland
LOCATION: The Academy Art Museum of Easton, 106 South Street, Easton, Maryland 21601


JUNE 2012

DATE: Saturday June 2 2012
PRESENTATION: Emerging Ecologies: Gardening Sync'd to the Nature of Our Time
EVENT: Earthly Delights...Cultivating the Gardener
WEBSITE: http://earthlydelightsnj.com/
LOCATION: 129 Pickle Road, Pottersville, New Jersey 07979

DATE: Thursday, June 21 2012
PRESENTATION: Community Parks and the Influence of Livable Landscapes
EVENT: Friends of the Parks of Allen County Annual Meeting
LOCATION: Fort Wayne, Indiana

DATE: Saturday, June 30 2012
PRESENTATION: Layered Landscapes
EVENT: FLASLA (Florida Chapter of the American Association of Landscape Architects) Annual Conference
WEBSITE: http://www.flasla.org/?keynotespeakers
LOCATION: St. Augustine, Florida


JULY 2012

DATE: Wednesday,  July 11 2012
PRESENTATION: Walking Tour of The High Line with Annik LaFarge (new book: On The High Line: Exploring America's Most Original Urban Park)
TIME: 6:30pm
WEBSITE: http://thehighline.org/events/all/2012/7/tours-talks-high-line-tour-with-annik-la-farge-and-rick-darke
LOCATION: The High Line, New York, New York (meet at the bottom of the Gansevoort stairs)


AUGUST 2012

DATE: Friday, August 3 2012
PRESENTATION: The Art That Is Life: Lessons from The Arts & Crafts Garden
EVENT: Mountain Top Arboretum special lecture at the Onteora Club
WEBSITE: http://onteoraclub.com/heritage.php
LOCATION: The Onteora Club, Tannersville, New York

DATE: Saturday, August 4 2012
PRESENTATION: Walking Workshop on Regional Gardening: Lessons from Mountain Top  Arboretum's Landscape
EVENT: Mountain Top Arboretum special workshop tour
WEBSITE: http://mtarboretum.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=8&Itemid=93
LOCATION: Mountain Top Arboretum, Tannersville, New York


DATE: Saturday, August 25 2012
PRESENTATION: Wright in the Woods: The Nature of Fallingwater's Landscape
EVENT: Fallingwater Annual Twilight Tour special lecture in the Barn at Bear Run Preserve
LOCATION: Fallingwater, Mill Run, Pennsylvania


SEPTEMBER 2012

DATE: Thursday, September 13 2012
PRESENTATION: The Layered Landscape and The New Wild Garden
EVENT: Connecticut Horticultural Society Program Meeting
LOCATION: West Hartford, Connecticut


DATE: Friday, September 28 2012
PRESENTATION: The Layered Landscape
EVENT: Dorothy Young Memorial Lecture in Horticulture at the Nebraska Statewide Arboretum
WEBSITE: http://arboretum.unl.edu/index.html
LOCATION: Hardin Hall Auditorium, University of Nebraska Lincoln East Campus, Lincoln, Nebraska


OCTOBER 2012

DATE: Wednesday, October 24 2012
EVENT: Adkins Arboretum Day Trip to The High Line
WEBSITE: https://adkinsarboretumorg.presencehost.net/programs_events/event_calendar.html/event/2012/10/24/the-high-line-new-york-city-day-trip
LOCATION: departing by bus from Adkins Arboretum, Ridgely, Maryland for The High Line, New York, New York


NOVEMBER 2012

DATE: Friday, November 16 2012
PRESENTATIONS: The New Wild Garden: Design for Emerging Ecologies AND: The Evolving Role of Grasses in Modern Gardens
CONTACT: Dr. Sabine Plenk   sabine.plenk@boku.ac.at
LOCATION:University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria




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