Gardens and Tonic: Evolving Gardens with Holly Shimizu

Explore how ideas and approaches to gardening can change over a lifetime with 2020 Scott Medal and Award Winner Holly Shimizu. “For over 40 years, [Holly] has written and preached the gospel of gardening and horticulture throughout the nation and, indeed, throughout the world. ” – Paul W. Meyer, 2018 Scott Medal recipient, F. Otto Haas Executive Director of the Morris Arboretum – retired.

Gardens and Tonic is a series of virtual webinars with horticulture professionals. Grab your favorite beverage and join Julie Jenney from the Scott Arboretum and a featured horticulture professional for plant-related topics, adventures, and stories – as well as design-focused talks on private and public gardens. Time will be set aside to answer your questions.

Registration is free but required. Participants must have Zoom downloaded on their computer and be comfortable using it. The webinar link will be included in the confirmation email received after registering online.

More about Holly Shimizu:

“Beyond introducing millions to the wonders of plants, Holly has also been a key innovator in modern American horticulture. After creating the national herb collection, Holly went to the U.S. Botanic Garden where she oversaw a cutting edge modernization of collection policies, physical structure, visitor services, and education that has become a model for institutions all over the world. … She is widely credited with the transformation of the U.S. Botanic Garden that led it from a four-year closure from 1997 to 2001 to being the most visited public garden in the country by 2012. Holly’s innovations in interpretation, sustainable horticulture, educational programming, and children’s gardening have influenced other public gardens nationally and internationally.” – Ari Novy, President and CEO of the San Diego Botanic Garden

“She believes that gardens can have a positive impact when created and maintained with awareness and sensitivity for the short- and long-term effects of the plant choices, products used, and surrounding environment. She is quite simply one of the best people I know in the garden world.” – Beth Tuttle, former President and CEO of the American Horticulture Society