Great Garden Speakers

Keep Calm and Garden On: Gardening In The Midst of Climate Change

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While world leaders argue over the threat of climate change and its causes, gardeners find ourselves stuck in the literal and figurative trenches making the best of the challenges that face us. How can we best adapt to what is, right now, and make our gardens more resilient throughout the seasons? This talk focuses on key points we should consider when we design our gardens, and provides positive, productive
measures for our soils, wildlife, and plants to help ease our concerns over the unknown.

Marianne Willburn

About Marianne Willburn

Marianne Willburn is a gardening author, international speaker and columnist at The American Gardener, GardenRant and MarianneWillburn.com. She is the author of Tropical Plants and How to Love Them (2021) and Big Dreams, Small Garden (2017), and has spent much of her gardening life in small city and suburban gardens in places as diverse as California, England and the Mid-Atlantic. A regular contributor to Better Homes and Gardens and other digital and print magazines, Marianne has been a newspaper columnist for over a decade and is the recipient of several Gold and Silver Media Awards from Garden Communicators International (formerly GWA). Her most recent book Tropical Plants and How To Love Them was awarded the Gold Media Award for Book Writing by Garden Communicators International in 2022 and shortlisted in 2021 for The Peter Seabrook Practical Book of The Year. She is a graduate of University College London.