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A New Virtual or Live Lecture
In Unison: Creating Harmonious Combinations for Pollinators
and You
by Tovah Martin
Your garden has so much potential.
It could become a haven where pollinators thrive, dine, and
reproduce. How do you create such a place? With flowers. And
while bulking up on the blossoms, you might as well make every
moment beautiful. This lecture shares ideas for a pollinator-pleasing
place where harmonious colors echo while textural themes reverberate
and weave in and out throughout the growing season. Photographed
at Furthermore—my own garden—this lecture is an
intimate chronicle of a community of plants and their interrelationships.
Steal these ideas!
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Easiest Houseplants Ever with Style
by Tovah Martin
Looking for the perfect green
match for your home? This lecture is full of easily hosted ideas.
No matter what your home environment offers, we’ve got
you covered with recommendations for plants that will become
copacetic roommates. If your home features sunny windows or
shady sills; if your home is Sahara dry or comfortably spa-like—this
lecture will leave you filled with hope, and an adoption list.
Plus, the suggested plants do so much more than just sit around
being green. The goal is to find botanical companions that will
make your life ultra-beautiful. Dense with design ideas for
wannabee indoor gardeners of all tastes. Crammed with firsthand
wisdom for care and cultivation of all the suggested companions,
this lecture covers all the bases. Want to adopt a houseplant?
We offer options that will fit your lifestyle with flair.
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Houseplants by Design: A Virtual Lecture
By Tovah Martin
You want houseplants, you need
houseplants – but do you really utilize houseplants to
their fullest potential? In this virtual lecture filled with
photos and inspiration from my own massive collection of houseplants,
we explore some of the easiest, most rewarding houseplants appropriate
for all types of home situations and varying window exposures.
We talk about what to grow where and how to host houseplants.
But we also add another layer. Beyond your usual practical presentation,
here’s ideas for profiling your plants beautifully and
artistically. Your houseplant could be so much more than just
the green blob in the corner. We talk about design principles
and how they relate to houseplants. We discuss ways to pair
houseplants and profile them meaningfully to work with your
décor. We present containers that really make your houseplants
shine with personality. And of course, we tell you exactly how
to host and care for houseplants so they work for you. Your
habitat needs houseplants—why not do it with panache?
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| Maximizing
Space in the Garden: Creating More of a Good Thing
A Zoom Webinar by Tovah Martin
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. Using my own garden that I call Furthermore
as an example, I describe 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
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| Personal Houseplant Trainer
Coaching via Zoom
Who does Martha Stewart Living
call to vet houseplant stories? Me. Who does The New York Times,
Real Simple, and Redbook call when they need answers to readers’
houseplant quandaries. Moi. Now, I’m here for you too.
Thanks to the magic of Zoom, I am available for indoor gardening
consultations. For a modest hourly fee, I will troubleshoot
your houseplant issues, serve as a houseplant doctor, diagnose
issues, suggest new houseplants (and show you examples from
my extensive collection), send you follow-up lists of recommended
plants, plus be your coach and cheerleader for an hour. We’ll
talk about containers, we’ll discuss merging plants into
your décor. It’s like hiring a personal shopper
for plants. It’s like spending an hour with the houseplant
whisperer. Your home deserves this and so do you. The perfect
holiday, birthday, anniversary, or Mother’s Day gift!
Contact me at tovah@tovahmartin.com
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Your Flower Child Update:
How You Can Be More in Bloom
Everyone talks about bulking
up the blossoms in gardens to benefit pollinators: Here’s
how you can make it happen. Join lecturer Tovah Martin as she
suggests how to weave pollinator-pleasing flowers into found
spaces on your property. We talk about flowers that work particularly
well for discretely knitting a garden together—including
herbs that please on so many levels. And we liberate herbs from
the strict confines of formal beds to let them romp around.
But that’s just the beginning: This PowerPoint lecture
shows how you can discover under-utilized spaces everywhere
including vegetable gardens, roadside strips, converted lawns,
and meadows to increase Flower Power. On the 50th Anniversary
of Earth Day, this message seems particularly important. |
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Boot
Camp for your Senses
A lecture by Tovah Martin
Your garden could be so fulfilling,
if you plug in. Created to coincide with the publication of
Tovah’s new book, The Garden in Every Sense and Season,
this lecture explores the garden on all levels by attuning your
nose to the scents and training your ears to listen. Learn to
garden with eyes wide open, ears to the ground, and hands outstretched.
Tailored to the current season to make each presentation dynamic,
this lecture will lead your group through an odyssey of exploration
to awaken the senses and arouse your abilities of perception
on all levels. Sharing advice and ideas to deeply enhance the
gardening experience while also incorporating a “Smellathon”
to help get nostrils in gear, this lecture is beautiful and
fun as well as highly practical. Want to broaden your horizons?
After his presentation, your garden will be more savory, you
will know its touch, smell its aromas, hear its voice, and see
it anew.
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Gardening
as if the World Depends on Us
A lecture by Tovah Martin
Worried about the world? Take
action! Actually, just by being a gardener, you are already
making a big difference. Want to do more? Gardens offer so many
opportunities to link with nature and rescue the world. What
can you do to help? Everything! This lecture is filled with
ideas from gardeners who rallied their acreage in backyards
large and small to make a difference. From 21st Century versions
of Victory Gardens to pollinator plants, native shrubs, and
bird forage with scenic excursions into cover-the-earth density
plantings, lawn alternatives, herbs, and drought-tolerant suggestions,
we talk about how you can ally with nature to make the world
a better place for all creatures. The results are ravishing—these
gardens bristle with beauty and overflow with pride. With a
trowel in hand, you can save the earth. |
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Houseplant
Coaching
Attention garden centers and
flower shops! Do your employees or customers need a little coaching
in the houseplant department? I’m here for you! Whether
you need a quick rundown on the specifics of houseplant care
for your staff or a day-long intensive for staff or customers,
classes can be geared to your stock. We’ll cover everything
from easiest houseplants for beginners to trouble shooting.
We’ll do therapy sessions, tackle issues with answers,
and practice repotting. I can lead shopping sprees for a Girls/Guys
Night Out. We can even create a combo dish container together.
This is a hands-on class, no PowerPoint projection ability is
necessary to make it happen. With nearly 50 years of experience,
when it comes to houseplants—I wrote the books.
The
Unexpected Houseplant
Get ready for the Houseplant Revolution. What the world needs
now is more green close by – and houseplants are the answer.
These aren’t your grandmother’s dowdy, dusty versions.
These are houseplants with panache. These are plants that you
didn’t necessarily associate with windowsills. Have you
ever thought of growing a perennial as a housemate, for example?
Heucheras and primroses are just a couple of the unexpected
houseplants recommended in this lecture. And we talk all about
how to bust houseplants out of their plastic past and into a
swank future. What? You’ve tried and failed with houseplants?
Here’s how to make your windowsill into a success story
without quitting your day job. You and kangaroo paws are going
to live happily ever after.
Infusing
the Garden with Personality
You are what you eat, you dress for success, why not harness
your garden as an expression of the inner you? In this interactive
lecture, we explore how a garden can reflect your personality.
We discuss infusing your personal space with personality, panache,
and punch while searching for your deeper individualist. No
matter if you’re accessorizing a grand estate or tucking
a few treasured objects into a windowsill terrarium, there’s
always opportunity to follow your own drummer. Using examples
from some of the finest gardens in the country and quoting from
many of the most astute gardeners in the world, we demonstrate
how to have fun and optimize your landscape in this digital
slide lecture. The lecture finale is a terrarium planting demonstration.
Terrariums & You
When
you need nature close by, houseplants are the answer. And if
you’ve always yearned to host houseplants, but failed
– this lecture will come to the rescue. The answer is
crystal clear: Glass can serve as a solution to bond botany
and you. With the aid of a terrarium, you can host nature almost
anywhere – in your parched apartment or your dim office
cubicle. In addition, terrariums can be the ideal venue to bring
nature into children’s lives. These “small worlds”
introduce beauty, botany, whimsy, sophistication, and sparkle
into any decor, but these projects are also surprisingly inexpensive.
Not only will we share all sorts of recycling ideas for enlisting
everything from vases to cake stands, fishbowls, lemonade pitchers,
cookie jars, etc for growing plants and showcasing nature, but
recommendations for plant selection, care, and maintenance will
be shared. This lecture demonstrates precisely how to work with
glass enclosures of all types to incorporate green into your
life, no matter how busy your schedule might be.
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