Book event with author Teresa Woodard
Wednesday, April 9, 2025
1:00 – 3:00 PM Eastern Time
Parma-Snow Branch
Cuyahoga County Public Library
2121 Snow Rd, Parma, OH 44134
FREE – Registration is required
Teresa encourages attendees to “dress to the max” in bright colors, floral patterns or insect-themed clothing.
The Land Conservancy is pleased to collaborate with the Cleveland Pollinator & Native Plant Symposium and Nature Spark, to bring you an in-person event with author Teresa Woodard. Join us as Ms. Woodard introduces us to her new book, Garden to the Max: Joyful, Visionary, Maximalist Design—set to be released in March 2025.
Every gardener is familiar with the impulse to buy more plants, any plants, all the plants. And, increasingly, gardeners and designers want to invite a plethora of beneficial insects, pollinators, and biodiversity to their gardens. Having a maximalist garden is definitely aesthetic; yet it also brings vitality back to the earth, in an abundant expression of more.
Garden to the Max celebrates 20 gardens from across the US that embrace maximalism through joy and wonder, nonstop blooms, and abundant layers. The book is a feast of gorgeous photography by Bob Stefko, showcasing individual quirkiness, wild collections, and bold, personality-packed plant combinations that amplify the grandeur of each garden’s unique vision, packing in plants for their exuberant style and ecological benefits. Featured gardeners include an amateur ornithologist seeking to attract more birds, an event planner’s tropical paradise, a pair of city dwellers reducing their carbon footprint, an urban garden pioneer promoting pollinator gardens, or a life-long biophilic propagating endangered plants to nurture insects.
Longtime garden writer Teresa Woodard shares stories of each garden and its fearless designers, the inspirations for their plant collections, and their hopes for our earth’s future. Garden to the Max gives everyone permission to bring the exuberant interior style into the garden and develop a spirited reverence for plants, celebrating joy and personality in the garden—to the max.
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Ms. Woodard will be signing her book following the program. We have partnered with local bookshop Loganberry Books to have books available for purchase at the event. If you’d like to pre-order your book, please visit: https://store.loganberrybooks.com/garden-max-joyful-visionary-maximalist-design
About the Speaker
Teresa Woodard brings a background in magazine writing and gardening experience. During her 14-year writing career, she has written and produced garden content for regional and national publications, including Better Homes & Gardens and Country Gardens, and currently serves as contributing garden editor at Midwest Living magazine. She has won Gold and Silver Media Awards from GardenComm. Outside of work, she gardens at her home near Columbus, Ohio, and volunteers at an urban garden teaching youth about growing food.
Registration required.
Limit: 250
Organizer: Renee Boronka, rboronka@wrlandconservancy.org, 216-533-8761.