Speaking Topics

Backyard Bountiful with Ornamental Edibles

Cultivate health and beauty with clever container ideas, planting suggestions and a playful mix of ornamental edibles.  Whether you’re a home grower, P Patch subscriber, or farmer’s market regular, fresh seasonal produce can play a beautifully decorative as well as a satisfyingly healthful role in our lives throughout the year.

Small is the new BIG

City-sized gardens, high density urban housing, fewer hours for leisure (and even fewer for slaving in the garden) – you have to be a master of invention or mistress of ingenuity when it comes to fitting a garden into a busy 21st century life.  Today’s savvy gardeners are creating small gardens with big impact that enhance the urban experience and still allow time for relaxing.

Hortus Miscellaneous

Sit back and enjoy a colorful pictorial exploration of fact, superstition, old wives tales, arcane minutiae, hard science and folklore that all contribute to one of the world’s favorite pastimes – gardening! This unique approach to an admittedly vast body of knowledge is at once quirky, humorous, and esoteric while also respectful and considerate of accurate horticultural practices and nomenclature.

Dress Your Garden with Style & Personality

Discover ways to infuse your garden with distinctive detail and personal wit to create a space that is unique to you.  Whether you cultivate a cottage-style plot, maintain clipped urban formality, or tend to a tiny terrace filled with containers, garden making can be a satisfying form of creative expression when you learn to insert your SELF into the mix, linking exterior and interior spaces together into a uniquely personal environment called home.

Using the Landscapes of our Past to Find our Way Home

What environment makes you happy; mountain, ocean, grassland or forest? Fondly recalled leafy childhood tree houses, sunny beach vacations and rugged mountain hikes become an adventurous starting point for creating a uniquely personal and satisfying garden space when you discover your personal landscape profile.

Contact Lorene to inquire about details, her availability and to schedule a talk for your group.