Lectures & Symposia
2024 Winter Lecture: Welles Bosworth
Architect of Untermyer Gardens, Kykuit, and More
Did you miss the winter lecture?
You can still purchase a ticket to watch the online recording if you click here.
You can still purchase a ticket to watch the online recording if you click here.
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Our 2024 Winter Lecture features Untermyer Gardens Conservancy President, Stephen F. Byrns, who illustrated the meteoric career of the American architect, William Welles Bosworth.
William Welles Bosworth’s architecture career was powered largely by his close relationship to John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Bosworth’s design work at the house and garden of Kykuit, the Rockefeller family home, led to major projects for the ATT headquarters in New York City and the campus of M.I.T. in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It also led to the design of the garden at Greystone, Samuel Untermyer’s home, which some considered the most spectacular garden in America. Learn how Bosworth, an intellectually and aesthetically gifted architect, fused classical architecture with modern ideas. 
Welles Bosworth
Architect of Untermyer Gardens, Kykuit, and More The recording is available online Tickets to view the online recording are $25, plus Eventbrite fees. |
2024 Symposium: Onward and Upward in the Vegetable Garden
Did you miss the symposium?
You can still purchase a ticket to watch the online recording if you CLICK HERE.
You can still purchase a ticket to watch the online recording if you CLICK HERE.
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Our new ornamental vegetable garden, tended faithfully by Yonkers public high school interns, enjoyed its first series of harvests last year. As we look ahead to the next growing season, we have invited three vegetable garden experts to share their perspectives and advice.
Award-winning author, radio host, and garden expert from Halifax, Nova Scotia, Niki Jabbour will share her amazingly productive techniques and approaches to success in her own home food garden. David Mattern, who is responsible for the ornamental vegetable and cutting gardens at Chanticleer Garden in Wayne, Pennsylvania, will help us understand that healthy plants are the key to production and attractiveness. Moderating the panel will be Timothy Tilghman, the Untermyer Gardens Head Gardener. Did you miss the Symposium?
If so, you can still purchase a ticket to watch the recording. Tickets are $15, plus Eventbrite fees. By purchasing a ticket, you will be able to view on demand. 
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About the Presenters:
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Niki Jabbour is the award-winning author of four gardening books, The Year-Round Vegetable Gardener, Groundbreaking Food Gardens, Niki Jabbour’s Veggie Garden Remix, and Growing Under Cover. She is a rare two-time winner of the prestigious American Horticultural Society Book Award and a three-time winner of a Gold Award from the Association for Garden Communicators. She is an in-demand speaker, long-time radio host, and one of the experts of SavvyGardening.com.
Niki harvests year-round from her thirty raised bed vegetable garden in Halifax, Nova Scotia which is filled with an eclectic mixture of popular vegetables like tomatoes, cucumbers, and beans, as well as unique heirloom varieties, and crops from around the world like cucamelons, snake gourds, and za’atar. |
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David Mattern is a Horticulturist at Chanticleer Garden in Wayne, Pennsylvania, caring for the Teacup courtyards and Vegetable garden. David holds a degree in Landscape Contracting with an emphasis on design, and a minor in Horticulture from Penn State University. He is also a graduate of Longwood Gardens’ Professional Horticulture Program. David has experience working at public gardens in the U.S. as well as internationally, including England and South Africa. In addition to gardening at Chanticleer, David writes, lectures, and teaches on various gardening subjects. Learn more about David on Instagram @matternii or using the hashtag #chanticleerveggarden.
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Symposium Moderator Timothy Tilghman leads the Untermyer Gardens Conservancy's ambitious restoration effort. Head Gardener at Untermyer Gardens since June 2011, he has more than 25 years of horticultural experience, with 20 years devoted to public horticulture. His previous positions include: Head Gardener, Rocky Hills, a Garden Conservancy Project Garden, Mt. Kisco, NY; Senior Garden Editor, Martha Stewart Living, New York, NY; Gardener, Wave Hill, Bronx, NY; Assistant Curator, Scott Arboretum of Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA; Intern, Willowwood Arboretum, Chester, NJ; Intern, Powell Botanical Garden, Kansas City, MO. He holds a B.S. in Plant Science/Ornamental Horticulture from the University of Missouri, Columbia, MO.
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The Untermyer Gardens Conservancy hosts a Winter Lecture and a Symposium each year.
- 2024 Symposium: Onward and Upward in the Vegetable Garden
- 2023 Winter Lecture: Forgotten No More: The Restoration of Untermyer Gardens
- 2022 Winter Lecture: Samuel Untermyer: Forgotten Hero
- 2022 Virtual Symposium: The Making of a Meadow: Considerations, Complications, Compositions
- 2021 Virtual Symposium: Garden Elements and Styles: A Conversation with Toby Musgrave and Timothy Tilghman
- 2021 Winter Lecture: The Islamic Garden as Sacred Art featuring Emma Clark
- 2020 Winter Lecture: Paradise on the Hudson featuring Caroline Seebohm
- 2019 Winter Lecture: Paradise Found: The Gardens of Mughal India featuring Stephen F. Byrns
- 2019 Symposium: Restoring Gardens: Contrasting Approaches to Restoring Historic Gardens featuring the Jay Heritage Center, Lyndhurst and Untermyer Gardens
- 2018 Winter Lecture: Persian Gardens of Iran featuring Stephen F. Byrns
- 2018 Symposium: Great American Public Gardens: Successes and Challenges featuring Louis Bauer, Andy Pettis, and Timothy Tilghman
- 2017 Winter Lecture: Untermyer Gardens: Its Periods of Glory and Its Sack featuring Stephen F. Byrns
- 2016 Winter Lecture: Untermyer Gardens: From Pompeii to Paradise -- Uncovering a Great American Garden featuring Timothy Tilghman
- 2015 Winter Lecture: Untermyer Gardens: America's Greatest Forgotten Garden featuring Stephen F. Byrns