Journeys through the Seasons: Keeping a Garden Journal or Blog

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Classes, Informational, Nature/Environment

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Adult
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Journeys through the Seasons: Keeping a Garden Blog

Learn creative ways to plan, record and reflect on your journeys through the seasons in your garden and landscape with nature writer and blogger Lisa Wagner.  Keeping a journal, whether digital or on paper, can be a rewarding way to connect with the ways your garden changes over time, and strengthen your appreciation of your place in the world.  Consider what you’d like to remember about your garden while reflecting on what has inspired you.

Join us for an encouraging talk on setting up ways to regularly record your observations and reflections in a way that suits you, encouraging a closer connection to your garden and surrounding landscapes. November is an excellent time to consider the past growing season as we move into a quieter time of the year, but still with an abundance to observe and record.

 About Lisa Wagner:

Lisa Wagner was the Director of Education at the South Carolina Botanical Garden, Clemson University for over 20 years. A plant ecologist by background (Ph.D. in Botany, UC Berkeley), she’s interested in native plants, ecological gardening, and promoting habitat restoration, as well as encouraging engagement and creativity in mid-life and beyond. She continues to do presentations and consultations as a volunteer, while continuing to be a keen gardener and committed writer about the natural world.  Her first blog, Natural Gardening (www.naturalgardening.blogspot.com) reflects her observations about gardening and the natural world. Her second blog, Places of the Spirit (www.placesofthespirit.blogspot.com) reflects sense of place and broader observations about being at home in the world. 

Lisa and her husband Tim Spira spend roughly half the year in Asheville, NC, where they’ve surrounded their in-town house with native gardens. They spend the other half of the year in the Northern Appalachians in their cottage in Quebec, where they’ve been converting a horticultural landscape to a more naturalistic one.