The Recycled Garden

Canceled

Solving Problems Through Creative Repurposing
Marianne Willburn, Author, Columnist and Speaker

  • Tuesday, April 22, 2025 – 6:30 pm–8:00 pm

Celebrate Earth Day with Marianne and learn how to repurpose materials in your garden in a beautiful and creative way!

recycled branches used as a fence

Repurposing materials in your garden saves money and is an environmentally sound practice; but used carefully, those materials can also add whimsey and make your garden unique. Marianne will help you train your eyes to see the 'treasure' in 'trash' by utilizing a series of steps designed to help you figure out what you need and what you have. From cast off chairs to the remnants of a building project to natural materials gathered along a roadside, salvaged finds have the power to put an individual stamp on your garden without costing you a fortune.

About Marianne Willburn


Marianne Wilburn

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
Registration for this event is closed.
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.