Martha Stewart, Jinny Blom & Margaret Roach

Teaches at New York Botanical Garden

Margaret Roach
After stints as garden editor at Martha Stewart Living and Newsday, Margaret Roach now creates the nationally acclaimed website A Way to Garden and its companion public radio show-podcast, where she shares her deep garden knowledge and the unique approach she describes as "horticultural how-to and woo-hoo." Roach has authored three books—her first, also titled A Way to Garden, is being released as an all-new 21st-anniversary edition in spring 2019. 

Martha Stewart
Entrepreneur, best-selling author, and Emmy Awardwinning television host Martha Stewart has gained success through her many ventures in publishing, broadcasting, merchandising, and e-commerce. She is the founder of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, and has written 90 books—most recently Martha's Flowers: A Practical Guide to Growing, Gathering, and Enjoying—co-authored with Kevin Sharkey, who will be joining Martha for a moderated conversation following her talk.

Jinny Blom
Self-taught, and with a lifelong interest in natural landscapes, gardens, and architecture, Jinny Blom launched her landscape design practice in 2000 after 20 years as a psychologist. Today, she is one of the U.K.'s leading landscape gardeners—celebrated for her skill with plants, her spatial understanding, and an ability to create gardens that respond to the history of a site and its wider landscape. In formal walled spaces and contemporary installations, in town gardens and vast country estates, Blom pushes creative boundaries, incorporating unexpected design elements and a wide variety of styles.

With hundreds of gardens worldwide to her credit, Jinny Blom is celebrated internationally for her innovative and uniquely thoughtful work. A frequent contributor to U.K. and U.S. gardening and lifestyle publications, she is author of the bestselling The Thoughtful Gardener, An intelligent approach to garden design. Blom has designed five awardwinning gardens for the RHS Chelsea Flower Show, winning Gold in 2007.