“Shrouded in Light” w/ Kevin Williams & Michael Guidi of the Denver Botanic Gardens - July 2025 SCHS скачать в хорошем качестве

“Shrouded in Light” w/ Kevin Williams & Michael Guidi of the Denver Botanic Gardens - July 2025 SCHS

Kevin Philip Williams and Michael Guidi, horticulturists with the Denver Botanic Garden have co-authored a new garden design book, Shrouded in Light: Naturalistic Planting Inspired by Wild Shrublands. Their program explores the wide spectrum of wild shrublands and the philosophies and design strategies behind translating these plant communities into our home gardens. Our guest speakers share examples of shrublands that exist all around us, thriving in almost any environmental condition from the desiccating sunshine of the endless sagebrush steppe to the deep, private shade of moist forests, and talk about how these diverse and inspiring ecosystems can serve as models for our gardens. Beyond their inherent beauty, these shrublands provide nurturing habitats, demonstrate resilience in the face of a changing climate, and offer a challenge to conventional garden-making through their intense aesthetics and obscured intentions. Kevin Philip Williams is a naturalistic gardener whose unique style combines bioregional plant palettes, a hardcore punk ethos, and post-human aesthetics to craft wild and captivating spaces. He holds an MS degree in Public Horticulture from the Longwood Graduate Program at the University of Delaware, worked as a gardener on The High Line in New York, and studied as a horticulture intern at Brooklyn Botanic Garden. Michael Guidi is an ecologist and horticulture researcher whose work draws inspiration from liminalurban spaces and wild areas alike. Preferring common and weedy plants to the rare and precious, he is a proponent of dynamic, self-sustaining gardens and green infrastructure as alternatives to static high-maintenance landscaping. His research links ecological theory with horticultural techniques and designs to broaden the definition of gardens and gardening. Guidi holds an MS degree in Ecology at Colorado State University and worked as a field biologist before joining the Denver Botanic Garden.