Thomas Woltz, Senior Principal and Owner of Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects, will use the firm’s just-released monograph to reflect on the complex histories that are held in the land and how the firm reveals and engages them. NBW is one of the leading firms working in landscape architecture today, with major commissions across the United States and abroad. Hear about how, through the firm’s research-based process, ecological and cultural histories are revealed and integrated into meaningful public experiences.

The Land Is Full: Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects is a collection of twelve major parks that illustrate the power of design to create vital public realms at the heart of communities. The Land Is Full features projects that engage exceptionally sensitive sites, including those that hold the vital histories of enslaved peoples, the rich cultures of indigenous peoples, and natural habitats that have been threatened by infrastructure and construction.

THOMAS WOLTZ is the Principal and Owner of Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects. He received his Master of Architecture and Landscape Architecture from the University of Virginia and holds an honorary doctorate from SUNY ESF. He was recognized with the Land for People Award by the Trust for Public Land in 2019 and serves on the Board of Directors of the Cultural Landscape Foundation. Over the past two decades of practice, NBW has developed a unique approach to design using ecological and cultural research as the foundation for creating meaningful landscapes that inspire connection to place.

Registration: Webinar link will be received directly from Zoom. Click here to register.

Date: April 1, 2:00 to 3:00 Webpm p.m.

Admission: $15 non-members, $5 Garden Conservancy members

Presenter is Richard Thomas, head gardener and garden specialist. The garden design was created by world famous garden designer, Piet Oudolf. Learn about the garden’s design with native plants and grasses.  Garden design plans and listing of plants will be provided.  Excellent for pollinators like butterflies, hummingbirds and Michigan native bees

Date: Saturday, April 5 at 9:30 a.m.

All speaker programs are at the Burgess Shadbush Nature Center, 4101 River Bends Drive, Shelby Township, MI 48317 at 10:00am Saturdays unless otherwise noted.

Free.  A reservation is required.  Email: marietta.crabtree@gmail.com   Questions: 586-612-1848

SMDS is a 501c3 non-profit society which promotes good earth stewardship through gardening as well as promoting and providing information about daylilies.  www.midaylilysociety.com

Mil Hurley was very fortunate to have taken a class at the famed gardens at the Great Dixter estate and will tell us of her wonderful experiences and share some of the valuable gardening knowledge she came home with. The program will be in the Reception Room of the War Memorial on Wednesday, April 9, 2025 at 7:00 p.m. Lecture is free to current Garden Center members, $10 for non-members. Advanced online registration is required for members and non-members, click here for information and to register.

The Moross Greenway Project is having their Annual Volunteer Day Spring Clean-up on Saturday, April 12, 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. Volunteers are to meet in the parking lot of Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church (corner of Moross and Edgefield). Click here for a downloadable handout.

Tools, safety vests, and water will be provided but please bring gardening gloves and any favorite tools to do light gardening and clean-up of the perennial beds.

Starting in May, regular clean-up days will be on the first Monday of every month from 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.

Join the Master Gardener Society of Oakland County for their 11th Annual Education Garden Conference on Saturday, April 26, 7:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Click here for more information.

The 2025 MGSOC Education Conference will be held at A NEW LOCATION, The Oakland Center, Oakland University, 312 Meadow Brook Rd., Rochester, MI 48309

• Registration Fee: $95
• Cancellation Policy: No refunds are granted.
• Registration Deadline: Midnight, Monday, April 14, 2025 (Checks must be received by this date).
• Registration options:
  • Register online: buy tickets here
  • Register by mail: mail print form and check (made payable to MGSOC, Inc.) to Dianah Foster, Treasurer, MGSOC, 2475 Dorfield Dr., Rocheter Hills, MI 48307
    
• Please direct conference registration questions to Ann:
  Phone (248) 812-9437, E-mail: conference@mgsoc.org

Spanish Master Florist Daniel Santamaria is the featured speaker for the 25th Annual Elizabeth Kuhlman Lecture in the Marvin and Betty Danto Lecture Hall at the Detroit Institute of Arts. The program is Monday, April 28 from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. An optional luncheon following program will be available. Click here to register.

Presented by Amanda Ruffini who is the director of Lake StClair CISMA, Cooperative Invasive Species Management Area. Learn about safter methods to control garden pests, especially for pollinator gardens and organic gardening.  Learn about problems of invasive species to natural habitats.

Date: Saturday, May 3 at 10:00 a.m.

All speaker programs are at the Burgess Shadbush Nature Center, 4101 River Bends Drive, Shelby Township, MI 48317 at 10:00am Saturdays unless otherwise noted.

Free.  A reservation is required.  Email: marietta.crabtree@gmail.com   Questions: 586-612-1848

SMDS is a 501c3 non-profit society which promotes good earth stewardship through gardening as well as promoting and providing information about daylilies.  www.midaylilysociety.com