About Natasha

Creative Landscape Designer & Engaging Speaker

Inspiring a passion for gardeners to garden and to realize the happiness & health benefits that comes from gardening and a connection with nature. And then together we just might save our world, the Planet Earth.

After working with New York's Central Park Conservancy, she gained an admiration for Frederick Law Olmsted's passionate belief that exposure to parks & nature enriches the path of human development for everyone, rich or poor.

New Media Communicator

Degree in landscape design from Harvard Radcliffe with a focus on using new media to teach landscape design.
2008-2013 liaison to the New York Central Park Conservancy for the Garden Club of America.
17 years of media production experience covering the Chelsea Flower Show in London for the English Royal Horticulture Society in conjunction with 2-4 Productions.
Garden Club of America, Board of Associates National Committee Representative of Zone XII.
Consulted on the production of Soho Sakai's Ikabana video presentation for the Fine Arts Museums of SF's Bouquet To Arts 2021 virtual program.

My goal is to awaken and inspire the extraordinary and profound benefits to physical and mental health and moments of pure joy gardeners experience through the simple act of gardening and garden making in a most substainable and responsible manner.

References

“Thank you so much for making our first virtual social event such a success. You were an engaging presenter, and your photographs were amazing. We got so much positive feedback.”

Karen Mohr

President

The Auxiliary of The Fine Arts Museums San Francisco,

The De Young Museum and The Legion of Honor

“Fabulous! I want that … in my garden!!!!"

Barbara Tuffli

2015-17 National Horticulture Chairman,

The Garden Club of America

"Your presentation today was terrific! It took us all on a lovely virtual journey. Your joy and exuberance were infectious.”

Sheree Shoch

President

The Woodside Atherton Garden Club

"What wonderful trip down Chelsea’s memory lane. Nothing touches the edges of Chelsea's magnificence and tradition. Many thanks for sharing all that rich history with us, verbal and visual. Again, thank you for this great presentation."

Sherry Perkins

2018-2020 Zone XII Vice-Chairman,

The Garden Club of America

CLIENTS

Speaking Engagements

RADIO PROGRAMS

The Urban and Specialty Garden Host for “The Cultivated Gardener“, Public Radio’s nationwide program aired on sixty-six stations. Every week, The Cultivated Gardener reviewed the multiple aspects of horticulture from the practical to the poetic.1999-2001

TELEVISION PROGRAMS

As Segment Host for “Breaking Ground” The Home and Garden Television Network (HGTV), helped launch the flagship TV series. It was filmed in municipal and private gardens located across the country, reaching some twenty million American viewers.

PUBLIC SPEAKING

Invited to join The Garden Club of America’s Speaker List

Garden Club of America Headquarters, New York, The Quarterly Business Meetings on numerous occasions

on The Garden Club of America’s Central Park Project

The Cambridge Garden Club

The Newport Garden Club

The Shirley Meneice Horticulture Conference, 2011, Tree Projects for Clubs

The Garden Club of St. Louis, 2012

The Santa Barbara Garden Club, 2013, The History of Topiary & following Workshop

The Marin Garden Club, 2017, English Gardens & The Chelsea Flower Show

The Woodside Atherton Garden Club, 2020, The Chelsea Flower Show

OTHER SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS

St Thomas 5th Ave. New York, NY Evening Lecture Series, English Gardens

British Consulate, New York , NY Chelsea Flower Show

Harvard University's Arnold Arboretum, Boston, Chinese Gardens

The Massachusetts Horticulture Society, Boston,MA. Garden Presentations

New York University’s Steinhardt Center for Food, Wine and Agriculture’s symposium “Sustaining the Good Life”

The Madoo Garden Conservancy, Sagaponeck, NY,

1. Topiary 2. The History of Topiary and following Workshop

New York Botanic Garden Auxiliary, The History Topiary and following Workshop

The San Francisco Garden Club, Topiary Lecture and following Workshop

The Piedmont Garden Club, English Gardens & the Chelsea Flower Show 2018, English Gardens

The Auxiliary of The Fine Arts Museums San Francisco, (The De Young Museum and The Legion of Honor), 2020 The Chelsea Flower Show.

Natasha Hopkinson
Landscape Lectures