Beatrix Potter’s Botanical Lecture & Book Signing at UD Botanic Gardens

Beatrix Potter’s Botanical with Author Marta McDowell

Lecture, Book Sale, & Signing

Thursday, October 22

Lecture at 6 p.m.

Book Sale & Signing at 7 p.m.

Townsend Hall Commons

Among Beatrix Potter’s many accomplishments, she produced exquisite renderings of flowers and detailed botanical illustrations. The lecture showcases her work and explores the various plants and their influence in her life, gardens, and beloved children’s books. Whether you are a lover of plants, Peter Rabbit, or Potter herself, you find something to appreciate in her art of flora and fungi.

Marta McDowell teaches landscape history and horticulture at the New York Botanical Garden and is a popular lecturer and writer. The recent publication of Beatrix Potter’s Botanical follows her 2023 book Gardening Can Be Murder, which explores the horticultural connections to crime fiction. Timber Press also published Unearthing The Secret Garden, Emily Dickinson's Gardening Life, The World of Laura Ingalls Wilder, New York Times-bestselling All the Presidents' Gardens, and Beatrix Potter’s Gardening Life, now in its ninth printing. She was the 2019 recipient of the Garden Club of America's Sarah Chapman Francis Medal for outstanding literary achievement.

If you need a reasonable accommodation or for inquiries about accessibility, please contact Emily Mox at [email protected] or 302-831-4188. All reasonable accommodation requests should be made at least two weeks prior to the event.

Cancellation Policy: UDBG reserves the right to cancel any program if necessary. Refunds take approximately 3-4 weeks to process. There will be no refunds after a class or series has begun. Payment will be refunded if cancellation is made 10 days prior to the event.