The greatest horticulturist in the world, period

Join “plantsman” Dan Hinkley for an afternoon of wisdom and wit as he virtually takes viewers into the pages of his new book, then walks them through his celebrated garden on Tuesday, Dec. 15. at 2 pm.

He will be joined by moderator and former NPR correspondent Ketzel Levine, who, after 25 years of friendship, knows enough about Hinkley to make her dangerous and make this an unusually ribald holiday event.

Hinkley is American horticulture’s answer to Bruce Springsteen, Cindy Sherman and Sir Richard Attenborough, an icon and artist in his field. Immersed for more than four decades in the world of plants, Hinkley has distinguished himself as a gardener, nurseryman, plant hunter, lecturer, landscape designer and author. He is also an incredibly funny guy.

Hinkley landed in the Pacific Northwest in the early 1980s and within a decade turned 15 forested acres in Kingston, Washington, into a flagship of Northwest horticulture, Heronswood Nursery. A generation of gardeners lost months of sleep staying up nights reading and ordering from the Heronswood plant catalog, likely the most tantalizing and hilarious plant manifesto written in American horticulture.

Heronswood has since become a celebrated botanical garden owned by the Port Gamble S’Klallam Tribe, featuring more than 10,000 plant species, many of which Hinkley brought back from plant expeditions around the world and introduced through his own catalogs and Monrovia Growers’ Dan Hinkley Plant Collection.

The fee for the webinar is $40.

Horticultural Arts is a program of the Hoffman Center for the Arts in Manzanita. For more information and registration, go to www.hoffmanarts.org/register.