Big Dreams, Small Garden

Create Something Extraordinary in Your Ordinary Space
Marianne Willburn, Author, Columnist and Speaker

• Thursday, October 24, 2024 – 6:30 pm–8:00 pm

Tiny balcony, lack of privacy, HOA restrictions, tough neighborhood…if you're struggling with a difficult outside space you are not alone.

By breaking down the process into manageable sections, shifting our perspective and cultivating a sense of contentment, we can create the garden that lives inside of us. Marianne will go over this process, sharing design tips and real-life gardens to help you get excited about your outside space – no matter what it is.

About Marianne Willburn

Marianne Willburn is an opinion columnist for the American Horticultural Society's The American Gardener and the author of Tropical Plants and How to Love Them and Big Dreams, Small Garden. She is a contributing editor at GardenRant.com, and her work has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Better Homes and Gardens and national podcasts such as "Cultivating Place" and "A Way to Garden."

Marianne has also been a newspaper columnist for over a decade and is the recipient of several Gold and Silver Media Awards from Garden Communicators International (formerly GWA). Her most recent book, Tropical Plants and How to Love Them, received a Gold and Silver 2022 Media Award for both writing and design and was shortlisted by the Garden Media Guild (UK) for the Peter Seabrook Practical Book of The Year in 2021. She was also shortlisted for the Garden Media Guild’s prestigious Garden Writer of The Year in 2023.

Marianne believes strongly that you should never wait for the 'perfect space' to create a restful garden oasis for yourself and your family; and she has spent much of her gardening life in small city and suburban gardens in places as diverse as California, England and the Mid-Atlantic. In 2013, she began gardening intensively and exhaustively on ten acres in a rural corner of Northern Virginia and shares her gardening life at Instagram @marianne.willburn, GardenRant.com and on her blog, mariannewillburn.com.

Cost

$30.00 per participant.

Registration

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Cancellation

Program cancellations can be made up to two weeks before the program's start date. No refunds will be made after this time. A 15% cancellation fee applies.

Location

Online Program. Registered participants will receive instructions for accessing the course the week of the program.

Questions

Contact the JCRA Education Team at jcraprograms@ncsu.edu for more information about this program.