The Elisabeth Carey Miller Memorial Lecture for 2007

“The Most Beautiful Gardens in Wales” by Graham Rankin

This is the free lecture being presented for 2007

The Elisabeth Carey Miller Memorial Lecture has become one of the highlights of the gardening season. For over a decade, these free public lectures have presented outstanding garden speakers to the Seattle-area public.

Held each autumn to commemorate Mrs. Miller’s contribution to horticulture in the Pacific Northwest, this free evening lecture is given by an outstanding horticulturist & is followed by delicious refreshments.
Past lectures have included:

2006
Peter Valder “The Romance of Chinese Garden Plants: Their Role in Art, Literature, Symbolism and Everyday Life”
2005
Julie Moir Messervy “Inspired by Bach: Creating the Toronto Music Garden with Yo-Yo Ma”
2004
Roger Phillips “Adventures in Plants and Roses”
2003
Frank Cabot “The Maturing of a Garden”
2002
Penelope Hobhouse &201c;Nature and Art – Keeping the Balance”
2001
Daniel J. Hinkley “Life in My Garden”
2000
Ken Druse “The Collector’s Garden”
1999
Daniel J. Hinkley “Endless Bounty: Plants for Northwest Gardens from around the World”
1998
Roy Lancaster “Travels of a Plantsman: An Account of Recent Travels in China, Japan and Chile”
1997
Judith Tankard “Walking in the Bootsteps of Gertrude Jekyll: Her Influence on Beatrix Farrand and Ellen Shipman”
1996
Jim Gardiner “A Year at the RHS Garden: Past, Present and Future”
1995
Sir Ghillean Prance “Plant Diversity and Conservation from Brazil to Kew Gardens”