Join ecological landscape designer Ashley Gamell for a garden walk exploring the fall season and how we can best utilize it to boost garden beauty and extend the bloom season even into the winter, all while supporting a bounty of life in our gardens. Ashley will highlight spectacular fall bloomers in the walled garden and the wild garden, and share her approach to thoughtful garden cleanup that ensures a lush garden buzzing with gorgeous biodiversity throughout the year.

Ashley Gamell has spent her career interpreting the world of gardening and nature to the public. During her ten years on staff at Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Ashley developed and ran children’s gardens, curated greenhouses, ran educational programming, developed exhibits, and led the creation of the groundbreaking new Discovery Garden, a garden developed with Michael Van Valkenberg Landscape Architects that celebrates native plants and habitats. Ashley is a co-author of the award-winning The Kids’ Guide to Exploring Nature, as well as a contributor to several other nature and garden books and blogs. She teaches gardening and nature courses on a range of subjects, from indoor gardening and Gardening 101 to fragrant botanicals and native plants.

Ashley holds a B.A. in Environmental Studies and Non-Fiction Writing, a Certificate in Horticulture, and is completing her Diploma in Garden Design at the Oxford College of Garden Design. Ashley owns an ecological landscape design business, and recently worked with Partners for Climate Action to co-write an action guide for pollinator conservation gardening. She lives in the Hudson Valley of New York with her husband and two children, a small flock of chickens, and an ever-expanding wild garden.

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