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By Olivia Anderson | oanderson@alextimes.com Panoramic views overlooking the Potomac River, a tabletop handcrafted from burled maple and landscape paintings
Dan Hinkley, a writer and acclaimed nurseryman, will be the guest speaker for this monthâs meeting of the Livermore Garden Club.
The meeting, in partnership with the California Horticultural Society, will be held virtually at 6:30 p.m., on Monday, April 19.
Hinkley will talk about the âmistakes and miraclesâ in creating Windcliff Gardens, a 6.5-acre garden on a bluff overlooking Puget Sound in Washington state and the subject of his latest book, âWindcliff: A Story of People, Plants, and Gardens,â published in September 2020.
Windcliff combines plants from western North America, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Chile and China.
Hinkley holds a bachelorâs degree in ornamental horticulture and horticulture education from Michigan State University, and a masterâs degree in urban horticulture from the University of Washington. In 1999, Hinkleyâs âThe Explorerâs Garden: Rare and Unusual Perennials,â was named book of the year
In the US, gardeners are celebrating riotously.
For the largely quiet home gardening business, this year started with a bang no, an explosion. On the heels of 2020, a breakthrough year for seed-buying, 2021 has already produced sales unprecedented in our company’s 145-year old history.
Triggered by an ever-expanding population of new gardeners, the surging seed demand is not evidence of a speculative craze, like Tulipomania or tech stocks. To invert Alan Greenspan’s phrase, the tsunami of seed-buying reflects “rational exuberance.” In addition to offering outsized nutrition, flavor, fragrance and beauty, seeds are exceptionally lucrative, delivering seed-to-vine-ripened produce values that would be the envy of Wall Street.
Wambui Ippolito is an immigrant â she was born and spent her early childhood in East Africa â and this rising young New York horticulturist has a good grip on the crucial role that immigrants continue to play in shaping the American landscape.
It is immigrants, after all, who have provided the backbone of our national landscaping industry since it first emerged in the 19th century. Scots and English gardeners gave way to Irish ones, and by the time I was learning the business 45 years ago, my mentors were mostly Southern Italians from Sicily and Napoli. They supplemented what I was taught in classes, tempering the ideal of informal English gardens held up to me by classroom instructors with a Southern Italian fondness for a more clipped and ordered landscape.