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No matter if you’re gardening in a close-knit neighborhood or a sprawling estate, you want to garden efficiently, prolifically, sustainably, and beautifully. You need to garden smartly and you’ve got to conserve your resources. This lecture focuses on all the points on your checklist. When you layer a garden, not only do you maximize space, but you can also create hardworking habitats. You can fulfill a balance between what you need and what nature needs. Tovah Martin uses her garden Furthermore as an example, as she describes how to create layers in varied habitats including the perennial, berry, and vegetable gardens. The result is visually fulfilling, low maintenance, and mulch-eliminating when plants go wall-to-wall. This lecture shares how that shakes down to serve our needs as well as the needs of pollinators and other creatures. You can expect to hear many innovative ideas beyond the usual solutions.

Tovah Martin is an author and lifelong advocate for houseplants and indoor gardening. In her constant, undying pursuit of all things garden-related, Tovah gets her hands dirty both outside and indoors. She is a perennial, heirloom, vegetable and cottage gardener of fanatical proportions and is accredited with NOFA as an Organic Land Care Professional. Beyond the garden outdoors, Tovah’s areas of specialty also include decades of experience with houseplants (she grows over 200 in her home). She is the author of more than a dozen titles, including Tasha Tudor’s Garden (Houghton Mifflin 1994), The Indestructible Houseplant (Timber Press 2015), The Unexpected Houseplant (Timber Press 2012) and The New Terrarium (Clarkson Potter/Publishers 2009) and Gold Medal award-winning, The Garden in Every Sense and Season (Timber Press 2018).