My Life in Plants, with Dan Hinkley
April 25 | 5:00-7:00pm
Admission: $40 (fee waivers available)
NCRD Performing Arts Center | 36155 9th St | Nehalem
Thank you to the Nehalem Bay Garden Club for their support of this event!
We’re thrilled to invite you to My Life in Plants, a lecture by the great American plantsman Dan Hinkley. Join us for a photographic journey rich in stories and insights drawn from his lifelong immersion as a gardener.
Often considered one the most celebrated plant explorers of the century, Hinkley’s curiosity about the natural world has propelled him to study much of the world’s flora for almost 40 years.
“Looking at a plant in the wild has been the most informative process for me as a gardener,” he says of his plant-hunting journeys. “Immediately I know where that plants wants to grow in a home garden and what its rightful place might be”.
Dan Hinkley’s horticultural education began just about the time he could walk, when his dad gave him a gourd seed. (“I planted it about a foot deep”). He graduated to planting orange seeds from his mom’s kitchen and vividly recalls seeing the first leaves appear.
“That’s when I became a student of horticulture. And still am”.
Not surprisingly, Dan went on to study botany and set his sights on teaching horticulture. (“My parents figured they’d be supporting me all my life”). He left his native Michigan to take a teaching job in the Seattle area, where he and his partner (now husband, Robert L Jones) settled.
“When Robert and I moved into our first home, I had seven truckloads of plants. Without my even realizing it, I had become a nurseryman”.
Had he ever. The Kingston, WA. nursery was called Heronswood and would soon become one of the most revered mail order nurseries inside and outside the U.S.
Now 72, Dan Hinkley has amassed an astonishing amount of horticultural wisdom and experience along with a kaleidoscope of images from his gardens. But what makes him truly excel as a lecturer, and why we’re so excited to present him, is Dan’s humility, humor, and uncanny ability to put gardeners at any level at their ease.
“I am a student of walking around with a 4-inch pot of something under my arm,” he says of his approach to garden design, “looking for a perfect place to plant it. And as I’m walking around, I inevitably dig up three other plants that weren’t in the right place either and now I’ll be carrying all of them around all day”.
Sounds about right. We look forward to seeing you at the NCRD Performing Arts Center to hear one of the finest entertainers and down-to-Earth superstars we know, plantsman Dan Hinkley.
April 25–Dan Hinkley
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