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Lorene Edwards Forkner is a warm and engaging speaker who uses imagery and language to tell garden/life stories that inspire and inform audiences. Popular lecture topics include:

  • Seeing Color in the Garden — Focus and refresh
    Color is one of nature’s most sophisticated tools engineered to capture the attention of all living creatures. Learn how to hone your perception, discover hidden hues, and cultivate an expansive view of the world around you. Color is powerful and delightful.

  • Gardening Matters — Saving the world, one backyard at a time
    Discover how gardens can be a seductive invitation to environmental stewardship and how tending a planet-friendly plot can turn gardeners into environmental superheroes.

  • Cultivating Delicious — 10 secrets to getting the most out of your backyard vegetable garden
    How to plan for plentiful and cultivate a constant harvest throughout the year.

  • A Handmade Garden — Create a personality-infused landscape
    Learn how to distill inspiration and personal history into a landscape that satisfies your aesthetics, hits the sweet spot of your garden dreams, and fits within your resources.

Topics are tailored to each engagement.
Digital presentations range from 45-60 minutes with additional time for Q&A and book signing.

  • Seeing Color in the Garden WORKSHOP — In this workshop, Lorene will talk about color, it’s role in a pleasing landscape, and how her daily practice, which she posts on Instagram, has introduced an expansiveness to the way she views the world. Following this introduction, participants will participate in a hands-on exercise using watercolors to record colors found in fragments of the natural world, a tiny blossom, a leaf, or a twig.

    This is not botanical illustration, but an exercise in learning to see with fresh eyes and an opportunity to slow down, focus, and savor the season. (Workshop is an ideal companion to lecture described above.)

 Hands-on color workshops (for groups of up to 20 participants) are around 2 hours.

If you are interested in booking Lorene as a speaker for your event, please send an email with all relevant information. You can also download this lecture and workshop factsheet [PDF] for pertinent details and fees.