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May 17, 2025
Cost: $12/members, $20/non-members. Register online. Curious about the geographic or name origins of your favorite flowers? If so, Advolly Richmond’s lecture will delight & illuminate. These histories are embroidered with folklore, mythology, globe-spanning plant explorations, & tales of botanists, queens, kings, smugglers, monks & more. Advolly is a garden, landscape & social historian fascinated by how gardens & gardening reflect social, political & economic currents. Based in the UK, she lectures and writes about a range of 16th to 20th-century garden topics & contributes garden history features to BBC’s tv program 'Gardeners’ World', writes for 'Scribehound' & is a member of the Garden Media Guild. Recording will be available to registrants for 4 weeks after the event. More information: www.northwesthort.org, info@northwesthort.org or 206-780-8172.