WVHPG Educational Speaker Program Tuesday, 14 October 2025

Name: WVHPG Educational Speaker Program Tuesday, 14 October 2025
Start: 2025-10-14T19:00:00-07:00
End: 2025-10-14T21:00:00-07:00
Location: Unitarian Universalist Church in Eugene

Schedule

Tue Oct 14 2025 at 07:00 pm to 09:00 pm

UTC-07:00

Location

Unitarian Universalist Church in Eugene | Eugene, OR

Join us on Tuesday, 14 October 2025 at 7:00 pm in the Unitarian Universalist Church in Eugene, 1685 W 13th Ave, Eugene OR 97402, to listen to Scot Medbury, president emeritus of Brooklyn Botanic Garden. Scot will be presenting "Turning Vision into Reality: Thirty Years of Garden-making in American Botanic Gardens".
Leading a botanic garden requires many skills, all of which come into play when mounting major capital projects. Scot will share his career experiences on the teamwork involved in envisioning, designing and building new gardens and facilities, drawing especially from award-winning projects at Brooklyn Botanic Garden and in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park.
Scot Medbury is president emeritus of Brooklyn Botanic Garden and also a veteran of public gardens in California, Washington State, Hawai’i, Great Britain and New Zealand. He holds two degrees from the University of Washington in Seattle: an MS from the UW Center for Urban Horticulture; and a BA from the Jackson School of International Studies. Scot is currently building a collection of rarely grown subtropical plants in Oregon’s mildest climate on the state’s southwestern-most Pacific coast.
Program Location: The in-person meetings and speaker programs take place at the Unitarian Universalist Church at 1685 W 13th Ave, Eugene OR 97402.
Entrance is on the east side of the building and there is ample parking in the parking lots, which can be accessed from both Chambers St or W 13th Ave, with additional parking in the adjacent Looking Glass Center parking lot. Please do not park under their covered entry way. Overflow parking is also available in the first 20 spaces on the east and south side of Redeemer Fellowship Church just across Chambers St to the west. For location and parking information see our website at: www.thehardyplantgroup.org/contact
Meetings begin at 7:00 PM, but the doors open at 6:30 PM for botanical sample browsing, refreshments, and socializing. We meet the second Tuesday of the month, September through November, and January through May. The public is invited to attend our meetings. Admission is free for members and $5 for non-members.
This program will also be broadcast live via a Zoom webinar, if you are unable to attend in person, to all members of WVHPG. If you are not a member and would like to view this webinar please see our "About" page on our website to learn how to join. www.thehardyplantgroup.org/about