Parks, Plants, and People Selected to Receive An AHS Book Award!

The American Horticultural Society (AHS) has announced that Lynden's book Parks, Plants, and People has been selected as one of four recipients of the AHS’s 2010 Book Award.

Each year, the AHS recognizes outstanding gardening books published in North America with its annual Book Award. Nominated books are judged by the AHS Book Award Committee on qualities such as writing style, authority, accuracy, and physical quality.

The March/April issue of The American Gardener published news of the 2010 Book Award winners, and you can also read about it on the AHS website by clicking here.

Order Lynden's Book and Attend a Book Signing or Lecture

Lynden's book Parks, Plants, and People: Beautifying the Urban Landscape is available in bookstores or on line from Amazon (click here or go to amazon.com and type "Lynden Miller" in the search box).

Published by W.W. Norton & Co. with more than 250 color photographs, the book is an inspiring "how-to" guide on designing, maintaining, and funding high-quality, four-season plantings for public places. Lynden demonstrates that beautiful parks and gardens are essential urban oases with economic benefits and the power to transform the way people behave and feel about their cities.

Lynden will be signing books and/or speaking at these sites throughout the country:

• Monday, August 16, at the College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor, Maine:
  4:30 pm, Gates Community Center; call 207-288-5015 for more information or click here
• Wednesday, September 15, at Pain Quotidien at Mineral Springs Pavilion (near the Sheep Meadow), Central Park, NYC:
  6:3o pm speech and book signing
• Thursday, January 13, 2011, at the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, details TBA
• Thursday, January 20, 2011, at the Herman Park Conservancy, Houston, Texas, details TBA
• Monday, January 31, 2011, at the New Jersey ASLA in Atlantic City, NJ, details TBA
• April 7, 2011, at the Open Education Day, Women Gardeners of Ridgewood, NJ, details TBA

Watch Lynden on the Martha Stewart Show

To watch a video of Lynden's appearance on the Martha Stewart Show on May 13th, click this link, then choose the "New York Parks" segment in the lower right of the screen. The show's theme is a celebration of New York City, and Lynden talks with Martha about the importance and benefits of beautiful public spaces. Other guests that day include Mayor Bloomberg and Ken Burns.

Links to Lynden's Speeches and Articles

Click here to read the NY Times book review of Lynden's new book Parks, Plants, and People: Beautifying the Urban Landscape.

Click on the following links to read recent articles in Fine Gardening magazine on Lynden's approach to garden design, with pictures of her own garden in Sharon, CT:

• "The Only Shrubs You Need to Grow," Fine Gardening
• Building Better Borders: Use plant combinations that focus on complementary colors, textures, and forms (or to view as a pdf: FineGardening2.pdf)
• "An Artful Composition": FineGardening1.pdf
• Renovating the Ladies' Border at The New York Botanical Garden

Click here to view a video of Lynden's presentation "Greening the Urban Landscape" at the Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden in Richmond, VA, on May 6, 2008.

Article on Tupelo Garden Club speech, February 20th - 22nd, 2008, in The Tupelo Daily Journal: Tupelo%20Daily%20Journal0001.JPG

Press release, Colonial Williamsburg Garden Symposium on May 5, 2008, in Williamsburg, VA, on "Greening the Urban Landscape: Planting for People":
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