Saturday, June 8th 2024
9am - 3pm

2023-24 MBG Members: $30*
NonMembers: $35

* Members will receive a $5 refund to payment method after completion of registration

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Marianne Willburn, opinion columnist for the American Horticultural Society’s The American Gardener

This day will begin at 9am and will include lunch. 

Morning session:
Keep Calm and Garden On: Gardening in the Midst of Climate Change
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.

Afternoon Session: 
TBD

About Marianne Willburn

Marianne Willburn is an opinion columnist for the American Horticultural Society’s The American Gardener, and the author of Tropical Plants and How to Love Them (2021) and Big Dreams, Small Garden (2017).  She is a contributing editor at GardenRant.com, and has spent her gardening life in places as diverse as California, the United Kingdom, and the Mid-Atlantic.

A regular contributor to Better Homes and Gardens and other national gardening 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 for her column and books. She is a University College London graduate and a member of GardenComm International, The Garden Media Guild, and the National Association of Newspaper Columnists.

She now gardens intensively on ten acres in a rural corner of Northern Virginia and shares her expertise each week with readers online and in print.

This presentation day is part of the 2024 Marion Deane Drummond Lecture
Series - Bringing Horticultural speakers from across the country to Mobile, AL. Series sponsored by the Lilian Woolford Charitable Trust