Garden Wonderlands: Creating Life Changing Outdoor Spaces for Beauty, Harvest, Meaning and Joy

In this informative webinar, we’ll hear from garden designer and writer, Leslie Bennett, about her approach toward designing life-changing home landscapes. We’ll explore her belief that gardens can be places where we can experience awe-inspiring beauty, deepen our relationship with plants and each other, attune with nature and the seasons, and remember the stories we choose to tell about who we are and how we belong.

Leslie will share about her journey toward her career as a landscape designer and owner of Pine House Edible Gardens in Oakland, CA, expand on her philosophy of garden design and share about her Black Sanctuary Gardens project. Finally she will tell us about the inspiration for her new book Garden Wonderland, taking us on a photographic tour of some of the inspiring and beautiful garden spaces she and her team have created around the San Francisco Bay Area.

Leslie Bennett is the founder and owner of Pine House Edible Gardens, an Oakland-based landscape design/build firm that creates aesthetic edible gardens and productive outdoor spaces. She is co-author of Garden Wonderland (Ten Speed Press, 2024) and The Beautiful Edible Garden (Ten Speed Press, 2013). Leslie is included on the Elle Decor A-List for 2023 and the two years preceding, was named a Top 50 Black Trailblazer by Oprah in 2022, is a recipient of the American Horticultural Society’s Landscape Design Award, and is founder of Black Sanctuary Gardens.