Speaker: Bobby Ward
Bobby Ward, editor of A Garden of One’s Own: Writings of Elizabeth Lawrence, a compilation of Elizabeth Lawrence’s writings, will share about Lawrence’s life including her early years in Raleigh and the connections she made while living there. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn about Lawrence’s writings, work, relationships with other gardeners and writers, and the many contributions she made to the gardening world. Lawrence is considered the “gardener’s biographer” and is often dubbed the Jane Austen of the gardening literary world. Her writing style was clear and concise, elegant but plain-spoken.
Copies of A Garden of One’s Own: Writings of Elizabeth Lawrence can be purchased in advance or at the lecture.
Enjoy a stroll through Elizabeth Lawrence’s garden after the lecture.
Purchase the bundle to attend all seven lectures for the price of six (Special Event The Art of the Possible not included).
Bundle: $150/member; $210/non-members
Registration includes live presentation (either in-person or virtually), Q&A session and admission to Wing Haven’s gardens. A recording of the programwill be available after the presentation.
$25/Member (in-person)
$10/Member (virtual, live and recording)
$35/Non-member (in-person)
$20/Non-member (virtual, live and recording)
$15/Student (In-person only)
Bobby Ward grew up in eastern North Carolina (Gates County), received an undergraduate degree in biology from East Carolina College, and a Masters and Doctorate in Botany and Plant Physiology from N.C. State University. He is the author or co-editor of four books: one on the writings of North Carolina gardener Elizabeth Lawrence; one on garden plants in mythology and literature; one on modern-day plant hunters, and the last one, a biography of J.C. Raulston. Bobby is currently the executive secretary of the North American Rock Garden Society.
