Anne Raver: “Half a Lifetime in Gardens and What They Have Taught Me”

Event Schedules

Bellevue Botanical Garden

12001 Main Street, Bellevue 98005

Sep 21 2014

1:00 PM Sun

More schedule information: Doors open at noon with seed and plant sales.

Event Description

NPA welcomes Anne Raver, longtime garden columnist and writer, and the featured speaker at our Annual Meeting & Lecture, which will be held for the first time at the Bellevue Botanical Garden's recently opened Education Center. Anne has spent 30 years in the field, first at Newsday, a Long Island daily, and then the New York Times, both fine newspapers where readers make sure to call the editor about a misspelled Latin name or factual error.

At both papers she wrote about “the garden writ large," that is, on almost anything that involved plants. She has seen not only unforgettable gardens, but national parks devastated by fire, nurseries wiped out by hurricanes, Superfund sites, river farms of the Amazon jungle and cantaloupes ripening on a Queens fire escape. She will share some of these stories and more, as she gives us a glimpse of just what it takes to be a garden writer.