Wednesday, April 26, 2107, 7pm. Tenley-Friendship Library, Large Conference Room

 Join American University Arboretum Manager Michael Mastrota for the 2017 Henry Mitchell Lecture.

AU’s Arboretum & Gardens are one of DC’s landscape jewels. The 84-acre campus is home to more than 3000 trees — over 150 different species and varieties — that provide a shady canopy for a thriving layered understory of flowering trees, shrubs, ornamental grasses, seasonal plantings, sculpture, pocket parks, ponds, and streams. Beds displaying striking plant combinations are carefully chosen by landscape architects and meticulously tended by staff arborists and horticulturists.

Henry Mitchell Lectures

Since 1995, the Friends of Tenley Library has sponsored annual lectures on topics of interest to local gardeners in memory of Henry Mitchell, who lived in Tenleytown/American University Park and was until his death in 1993 one of America’s great garden writers. For over two decades Mr. Mitchell was the Washington Post garden columnist. His books include The Essential Earthman (1982), One Man’s Garden (1992), and Henry Mitchell on Gardening (1999).