Walkovic & Schumacher Memorial Lecture 2025

Speaker: Rob Cardillo

“The Art of Garden Photography"

The Walkovic & Schumacher Memorial Lecture is co-sponsored by the Hardy Plant Society/Mid-Atlantic Group and the Scott Arboretum of Swarthmore College. This in-person lecture is free and open to the public. A virtual option will also be available.

Join professional garden photographer Rob Cardillo as he illustrates how he crafts sweeping landscapes and compelling plant closeups through a series of engaging stories.

Using examples from his many books and magazine projects, including his most recent work, Private Gardens of Philadelphia, Rob will show how he doesn’t always get it right the first time and how perseverance and patience pay off in the end.

You’ll leave with new ideas and new techniques to help you find and translate your own vision of Eden, even if you only use an iPhone.

Rob Cardillo has been photographing gardens, plants and the people who love them for nearly thirty years. He’s been credited as the primary photographer for over twenty-five books including Private Edens, Private Gardens of South Florida, The Art of Gardening at Chanticleer, The Layered Garden, Chasing Eden, and his most recent work Private Gardens of Philadelphia. Rob's work is also seen in publications such as Gardens Illustrated, Garden Gate, Flower, and The New York Times. Along with his Blue Root Media partners, Rob provides editorial content for an award-winning regional gardening magazine, GROW, published quarterly by the venerable Pennsylvania Horticultural Society. Winner of numerous photography awards, Rob was inducted into the Garden Writer's Association Hall of Fame in 2015.

Rob lives and gardens in Ambler where he grows a little bit of everything in drifts of one.

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For additional information on Rob: https://www.robcardillo.com/

Registration will be on the Scott Arboretum website. A link will be provided here when registration opens.

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