Photo: Native Garden, Rick Darke

When: August 3, 7:30pm-8:30pm
Where: VIRTUAL!
Fee: $5, $10 or $15 (Choose whichever one of these fees you would like to pay when you register. We are offering  flexible pricing to encourage a wider audience.)

Rick Darke and his co-horticulturist wife, Melinda Zoehrer, have been creating and tending their home garden for more than a quarter century. The garden is a living laboratory, devoted to proving how residential landscapes can be beautiful, manageable and joyfully livable while sustaining a vibrant diversity of plant and animal communities. In this presentation Rick will share insights and strategies from what continues to be an inspiring journey.  

Rick heads RICK DARKE LLC, an independent design firm focused on conservation-based landscape design and management. His work is grounded in an observational ethic that blends art, ecology and horticulture. His projects include parks, botanic gardens, community landscapes and residential gardens. His many books include The Living landscape: Designing for Beauty and Biodiversity in the Home Garden, co-authored with Doug Tallamy. For further info visit rickdarke.com

Sponsors: Audubon Society of Northern Virginia and Plant NOVA Natives.