The Elisabeth C. Miller Memorial Lecture is offered pre-recorded this year, with Rebecca McMackin presenting New Techniques in Ecological Horticulture: Beauty and Butterflies at Brooklyn Bridge Park. An acclaimed garden designer and horticulturist, McMackin worked for a decade as Director of Horticulture at Brooklyn Bridge Park.

This 85-acre organic park in the middle of New York City, was created with ecology in mind. The Park’s award-winning piers host top notch recreation, from opera to outdoor films, and the piers also contain native woodlands, freshwater wetlands, salt marshes, and numerous meadows. These areas closely echo native ecosystems and are managed with an emphasis on wildlife habitat. The talk will detail many of the strategies employed to design an ecological park, as well as the management techniques used to cultivate a biodiverse parkland.

Listen and watch anytime between now and October 31. Contact the Miller Garden staff at info@millergarden.org for more information.