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Antiques at the Gardens

Save the date for the Friends of Birmingham Botanical Gardens’ 18th-annual Antiques at the Gardens show in fall 2024! Created by a committee of 150 dedicated volunteers, Birmingham’s premier antiques show includes talks by internationally acclaimed interior designers, floral designers, architects, and furniture designers. The show also welcomes celebrated antique dealers offering furniture, fine art, vintage and fine…

Red Diamond Lecture: Life in the Gardens

Considered one of the most talented names in design, Bunny Williams is an accomplished businesswoman, entrepreneur, author, and philanthropist. A lover of dogs, gardens, and china, Bunny’s knowledge and expertise are on par with her enjoyment of life. She launched her eponymous firm following a 22-year apprenticeship with the esteemed Parish-Hadley Associates. Her business, Bunny…

Red Diamond Lecture: Building a Home to Last

Award-winning architect Gil Schafer is one of the country’s leading practitioners of contemporary classical architecture and one of the most sought-after residential architects working today. He is a member of Architectural Digest’s AD100, a winner of VERANDA’s “Art of Design Award,” a recipient of the Arthur Ross Award for Architecture, and the subject of the recent…

The Future of Traditional Design

Join us for The Future of Traditional Design. VERANDA Editor-in-Chief, Steele Marcoux will moderate a lively, interactive panel with interior designers and design experts Elizabeth Lawrence, Rudy Saunders, and Elizabeth Pyne Singer. Book signing to follow. Sponsored by Cobbs Allen and PURE Insurance.

Influence and Inspiration

Interior design tastemakers Barry Dixon, Mary McDonald, and Michelle Nussbaumer discuss “Influence and Inspiration” in a panel moderated by Margot Shaw, editor-in-chief of FLOWER Magazine. Book signing to follow. Sponsored by FLOWER.

Floral Workshop: Calvert Crary

Calvert Crary is the Executive Director of FlowerSchool New York and FlowerSchool Los Angeles. After over a decade as a professional photographer, shooting mostly lifestyles and fashion, Calvert made the transition to floral entrepreneur in 2006. Having opened and successfully run three flower businesses in New York City simultaneously, he knows not only his way around…

Design, Style, and Influence

Grab a seat as Alexa Hampton shares her journey into design and the inspirations that shaped her iconic style. Alexa Hampton has been president of Mark Hampton, LLC, her iconic father’s interior design company, since 1998. She has been named one of Architectural Digest’s AD100 Top Interior Designers every year since 2002 and has been…

Designing a Home Together

A once-in-a-lifetime conversation between three creative visionaries as they discuss their concepts when designing a home. Join James F. Carter, Richard Keith Langham, and Ben Page for Designing a Home Together, moderated by Executive Director and CEO of Design Leadership Network, Micheal Diaz Griffith. Sponsored by Paige Albright Orientals and Southern Home Magazine

Musical Garden Storytime

Musician and Children’s Librarian Alyssa Jewell, a.k.a. The La La Librarian, will lead this interactive playgroup for young children and the caregivers who love them—combining music and movement with storytelling centered on nature. Following the program, we invite you to let your little ones explore and play in our newly refreshed Garden Lab. *For preschool…