FAQs
What presentations are available?
Presently, there are three:
“Seeing Seeds: A Journey into the World of Seedheads, Pods, and Fruit”
An engrossing, narrated hour-long talk based on her award-winning Timber Press title of the same name. “Every seed tells a story.” Though small and often not noticed or examined carefully, seeds are simply amazing—what they look like, what they do, how they do it, as they work towards their astounding goal of self-replication.
Teri’s tour finds strangeness and fascination in the seeds of plants as familiar as oaks and dandelions, and as curious as figs and hellebores. View the gorgeous photographs by Robert Llewellyn (she will explain his “image-stacking” technique).
“Seeing Flowers: Discover the Hidden Life of Flowers”
An engrossing, narrated hour-long talk based on her best-selling Timber Press title of the same name. Learn why flowers look and behave the way they do, why certain plants are placed in certain families, how flowers attract pollinators and how pollination works. She also regales the audience with some amazing and entertaining stories from the era of plant hunters. Savor the breathtaking photographs by Robert Llewellyn (she will explain his “image-stacking” technique).
“The War of the Weeds”
An intriguing, empowering presentation based on her best-selling Timber Press title How to Eradicate Invasive Plants. Weeds and invasive plants are on the minds of gardeners, landscapers, park and golf-green managers and more. This talk is geared towards the layman: home gardeners and anyone who loves nature.
Teri defines “weed,” and discusses the scope of the problem and what gardeners can realistically expect to achieve in their battle. She then reviews a variety of nontoxic and low-toxicity ways to fight back, saving herbicides (including Roundup) for last. The final part is tailored to audience and region, with profiles/discussion of 10-12 representative plants of concern.
Can a presentation be done via Zoom?
Yes, indeed! Have done so several times already, happy to do it again.
Cost to your group?
The “honorarium fee” is negotiable based on the means of your organization and the projected size of the audience. Some venues charge a small admission fee to help defray the cost.
In-person events: Host group to cover travel expenses (e.g. mileage, tolls, accommodations if needed, perhaps a meal or two…TBD).
What about books/book-signing?
If your venue has a bookstore and you’d like to sell books, Teri is happy to linger and sign copies as needed.
If no, she can bring books and offer them to attendees at a discount, and sign autographs. (Please announce this in your publicity.)