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While the garden overwinters, it’s time to slow down, nestle into a comfy chair, and dive into a good book. Connect all winter long with fellow gardeners as we discuss four acclaimed nature-inspired books at the Member-only Winter Book Club. Join us in person at the Gardens or via Zoom for those further afield.

Wednesday, December 11, 2024 

How I Became A Tree by Sumana Roy 

Described as “an exquisite, lovingly crafted meditation on plants, trees, and our place in the natural world, in the tradition of Robin Wall Kimmerer’s Braiding Sweetgrass and Annie Dillard’s Pilgrim at Tinker Creek,” we’ll begin the book club season by diving into Sumana Roy’s How I Became a Tree. In this part memoir-part meditation, Roy reflects on her desire to become a tree and imagines a world where humans pay attention to the lessons we can learn from the plants around us. 

Wednesday, January 8, 2024 

Damnation Spring by Ash Davidson 

Ash Davidson’s debut novel Damnation Spring is set amongst the redwoods in a Northern California logging community in the late 1970s. Davidson tells the story of a family who finds their way of life threatened as tensions rise in their community and the health of industry, land, and people decline. With rich language that immerses the reader in the landscape, Damnation Spring pulls at your heart as it asks how far one family will go to protect their future. 

Wednesday, February 12, 2024 

In the Herbarium: The Hidden World of Collection and Preserving Plants by Maura C. Flannery 

Herbaria, or collections of preserved plant specimens, have existed for almost 500 years, serving as essential resources for scientists in studying how plants and biodiversity have changed. Maura C. Flannery shares her thorough research on the history of herbaria and explores the powerful role they continue to play in botany to this day, shining a light on both the past and future of plant science. 

Wednesday, March 12, 2024 

All Over Creation by Ruth Ozeki 

Exploring our relationship with nature and our desire to control it, Ozeki braids together agribusiness, environmental activism, and community in a sometimes comic, sometimes tragic work of fiction. Japanese-American daughter Yumi Fuller returns home as an adult to her family’s potato farm to care for her parents amidst a growing controversy over genetically modified plants.