• Thomas Rainer: Birmingham Native Plant Conference

    March 12-13, 2027

    The Cultivated Wild: Native Plants in the (Sub)Urban Landscape. Birmingham Botanical Garden

  • Thomas Rainer, Greater Greenville Master Gardeners

    February 13, 2027

  • Thomas Rainer: Beatrix Farrand Society, Bar Harbor, ME

    July 9, 2026

    The Garden As Mediator. Rainer explores the garden as a mediating force—an idea that quietly connects contemporary plant systems thinking with the work of Beatrix Farrand.

  • Claudia West: Iowa ASLA

    February 24, 2026

    Claudia will present the annual Elwood Lecture. Lecture topic: Rebuilding Abundance

  • Emilie Carter: Homeland Garden Club

    February 8, 2026

    Ecological Planting: Turning Lawns into Thriving Habitats

  • Emilie Carter: Manor View and Perennial Farm Education Seminar

    February 4, 2026

    Creating an Ecologically Rich Garden

Publications

  • Planting in a Post-Wild World.

    Winner of 2016 American Horticultural Society Book of Year

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  • The Dynamic Landscape, edited by Nigel Dunnett and James Hitchmough. Chapter by Claudia West: “Planting in and Around Water.”

  • “Designing Abundance.” Words by Georgina Reid.

  • Gartenpraxis Magazin (October 2022)

    Neue Natur Pflanzen.

  • Landscape Architecture (April 2020)

    The Next Green Revolution: Rebuilding Urban Abundance Through Plant Community-Based Design

Videos