Perfection Reimagined: Embracing the New Gardening Ethos with Leslie Needham
Leslie Needham will share stories, garden practices, and her design principles; lessons in learning that “less can be more”, with photos of her garden–River Hills–along with other gardens that she has worked on.
Leslie is a gardener, landscape designer, writer, and lecturer who has taught at the New York Botanical Garden. Her work has been featured in media outlets including Martha Stewart Living, The New York Times, and Gardenista, and she has been a guest on Margaret Roach’s podcast, A Way to Garden. Most recently, her home landscape, River Hills, was selected into the Smithsonian Institution’s Archive of American Gardens.
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