Meeting Activities: Two Speakers, Baking Competition click here for details, Master Gardeners (available for questions)

EHS Member Speaker: Cathy Faber Rowlands will share her key tips for entering the EHS Flower Show (after our guest speaker).

Guest Speaker: Tony Spencer

Topic: Wildscaping: Planting Design with a Canadian Twist

About: In the post-wild countryside of Ontario, Canada, Tony Spencer is conducting a series of open experiments to combine naturalistic planting design with green infrastructure into a fluid ecological art form. Working on the local level, he cultivates his universal concept of Wildscaping. This is about using plant-driven landscape design to create and sustain dynamic garden spaces to rekindle our relationship to the natural world. The focus of Tony’s presentation is how to link home to landscape in a symbiotic loop to build new nature and adapt to the inevitable extremes of the new climate.

Bio: Tony Spencer is the Canadian writer, digital creator and planting designer behind The New Perennialist. He is recognized and published internationally in the world of naturalistic garden design. Known for his award-winning blog, he also hosts The New Perennialist Talks, a webinar series featuring influential design innovators in the genre.

In 2024, Tony won his second top Landscape Design Award of Excellence from the US-based Perennial Plant Association (PPA) and in 2023, he was named PPA Garden Media Promoter of the year. He is also winner of the 2024 Media Awards Silver Laurel Medal of Achievement for Social Media presented by GardenComm: Garden Communicators International.

Day to day, Tony is a puckish ringleader for the naturalistic movement with over 85k followers on his various social media channels. He travels extensively to gardens and symposiums in his primary role as a communicator, documenter and sharer of ideas for this movement.

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TonySpencerTO

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the_new_perennialist/

Blog: www.thenewperennialsit.com