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“The Layered Garden” with David Culp — Camden Garden Club Winter Horticulture Series (Zoom or Watch Party, Registration Required)
Tuesday, February 3 @ 10:00 am – 11:30 am
2026 Winter Horticulture Series: Re-Visioning Your Garden: Talks about Landscape Design
Presented by the Camden Garden Club
In Collaboration with Camden Public Library
Programs take place on Tuesday mornings from January 27 – February 24. Join us in-person in the Picker Room at Camden Public Library, or watch virtually on Zoom*. Coffee and refreshments will be served in the Picker Room starting at 10:00 AM. Each program starts at 10:30 AM.
*This week’s program with David Culp will be on Zoom only, but all are invited to join the in-person watch party with refreshments in the French Conference Room on Washington Street (back side of Camden Town Office). If attending on Zoom only, the program will start at 10:30 AM.
Tuesday, February 3: “The Layered Garden” with David Culp
David Culp will show us how to recreate the majestic display of his beloved two-acre Pennsylvania garden, Brandywine Cottage. He will offer an important lesson in layering—how to choose the correct plants by understanding how they grow and change throughout the seasons, how to design a layered garden, and tips on maintaining it. To illustrate how layering works, David will take you on a virtual tour through each part of his celebrated garden. The lecture culminates with his signature plants for all four seasons.
Register to attend on Zoom only OR to attend the live watch party with refreshments in the French Conference Room at Camden Town Office!
Camden Garden Club relies on donations and memberships to support educational programming, maintain gardens around town, and fund the college scholarships awarded annually. Your support of this work is greatly appreciated. Thank you on behalf of the Camden Garden Club!
David Culp is Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Cavano’s Perennials. He is also the creator of the gardens at Brandywine Cottage in Downingtown, Pennsylvania, which are listed in the Smithsonian Institution/Archives of American Gardens. The gardens have been featured on television and in numerous magazine publications. David is the principal of David L. Culp Designs, owner of the galanthus nursery Brandywine Snowdrops, and the developer of the Brandywine hybrid strain of hellebores. David has been lecturing about gardens nationwide for over 25 years, and teaches about growing herbaceous perennials at Longwood Gardens in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania.
David is the author of The Layered Garden, which won a Gold Medal from the Garden Writers Association for Best Overall Book of the Year. His new book, A Year at Brandywine Cottage: Six Seasons of Beauty, Bounty and Blooms, takes the reader further, detailing how more than 30 years of creating his sensational year-round garden has provided an abundance of joy, both indoors and out, whether it’s choosing plants for twelve months of interest, weaving edibles into the mix, or bringing the bounty indoors with simple arrangements and homegrown recipes.
Image Credits: David L. Culp, www.davidlculp.com