Dr. Richard Lighty
Gardening on Earth: One Couple’s 46 Years on 7 Acres
Over the course of 46 years, Dick Lighty and his wife, Sally, established and cultivated a diversity of garden types requiring vastly different levels of maintenance on their seven acres in Kennett Square, PA. Drawing on their experience and the records that Sally kept as the gardens reached maturity, Dick explores the different maintenance challenges in each garden area, from the purely natural areas to natural areas enhanced by planting, to intensive island-and-edge beds, to very intensive areas around the house, as well as the vegetable garden and a small fruit tree area.
Dr. Richard Lighty retired in 1998 as the founding director of Mt. Cuba Center for the Study of Piedmont Flora in Greenville, DE. In 1960, he established and directed the research programs of Longwood Gardens, and in 1967 he founded the Longwood Graduate Program in Public Garden Administration at the University of Delaware. In the course of his notable career, Dick has named and introduced more than thirty species and cultivars new to American horticulture and explored for plants in Korea, Japan, Central America, Nigeria, and the eastern North American Piedmont. Currently, he serves on several boards, including The Garden Conservancy, Longwood Gardens, Stonecrop Gardens, and the University of Delaware Botanical Garden. He is a recipient of numerous awards, including the prestigious Arthur H. Scott Medal.
Date & Time
Date: Wednesday
March 10th, 2010