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Talks + Tours

Walks with the Gardeners: Shade Border Spring Ephemerals

When

Fri, May 5, 2023 1:00PM – 2:00PM

Where

Meet at Perkins Visitor Center

Price

$25, including admission to the grounds. Wave Hill Members save 10%

Many woodland wildflowers, or “spring ephemerals,” take advantage of the sunlight to bloom before trees leaf out in the spring. Join Senior Horticultural Interpreter Jess Brey and Gardener Kyla Dippong as they draw your attention to these hidden gems and their value in the overall design of a wooded garden.

Advance registration encouraged, online or at 718.549.3200 x251. Program size is limited. Day-of registration based on availability and not guaranteed.

Questions? Please email us at information@wavehill.org or call the telephone number and extension above.

Walks follow a route along mixed-material pathways with varying elevations.

Jess Brey

Jess Brey

Jess Brey is Wave Hill’s Ruth Rea Howell Senior Horticultural Interpreter. She leads seasonal walks, develops programs and writes, and provides images for, the monthly “In the Garden Now” email—and journal entry at wavehill.org—highlighting the garden’s unique collection, design and history. Jess has an MPS in Horticulture specializing in Public Garden Leadership from Cornell University.
Kyla Dippong

Kyla Dippong

Gardener Kyla Dippong specializes in sculpting naturalistic perennial gardens, an art she developed over her career as a professional gardener at institutions across New York City such as The Battery Conservancy, Brooklyn Botanic Garden and The High Line. In 2019 Kyla returned to Wave Hill, where she was a John Nally Intern in 1996. At Wave Hill she gardens in the Shade Border, balancing the aesthetics of native and exotic species growing in a linear space.