Deborah Chud is a retired Massachusetts physician turned garden maker, consultant, and educator, who specializes in coaching home gardeners (in-person and virtually). Her years of research on the world’s most famous New Perennial gardens (including New York’s High Line, Chicago’s Lurie Garden, the Oudolf Meadow at Delaware Botanic Garden, and Oudolf Garden Detroit) have generated a unique database of New Perennial plant combinations and fostered the creation of her own highly unusual New Perennial garden. Deborah’s garden has become a “must see” for MA garden clubs & green organizations as well as a source of data for a study of pollinator activity by Professor Richard Primack of Boston University.

In the fall of 2020, she presented her research as part of “Piet Oudolf: How Does He Do It?”—an international event organized by Oudolf’s co-author, Noel Kingsbury, under the aegis of gardenmasterclass.org. She has also addressed members of the following institutions and organizations: Massachusetts Horticultural Society, Harvard’s Arnold Arboretum, the United States Botanical Garden in Washington, D.C., the Ecological Landscape Alliance, the Northwest Perennial Alliance, Toronto Botanical Garden, and Delaware Botanic Gardens (complete list with dates below). The latter two public gardens contain Piet Oudolf-designed sections.

Disclaimer: Deborah Chud does not represent Piet Oudolf.

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Speaking Engagements

Institutions & Green organizations      

10-29-20 Arnold Arboretum at Harvard University
12-3-20 Toronto Botanical Garden
3-4-21 Delaware Botanic Gardens
12-2-20 JC Raulston Arboretum at North Carolina State University
2-16-21 Massachusetts Horticultural Society
6-12-21 United States Botanic Garden, Washington, D.C.
6-30-21 Ecological Landscape Alliance
8-23-21 Markham Garden & Horticultural Society
10-7-21 Massachusetts Horticultural Society
10-19-21 Phipps Conservatory & Botanical Gardens
3-19-22 New Hampshire Master Gardener Spring Symposium
5-11-22 Northwest Perennial Alliance
10-18-22 Phipps Conservatory & Botanical Gardens
10-28-22 Massachusetts Landscape Design School
(Garden Club Federation of MA)
11-29-22 Morris Arboretum at the University of Pennsylvania
2-15-23 Olbrich Botanical Gardens
2-16-23 Connecticut Horticultural Society
3-11-23 Berkshire Botanical Garden
3-27-23 University of Connecticut, Adult Learning Program
4-17-23 Massachusetts Master Gardener Association
1-13-24 Berkshire Botanical Garden
1-14-24 Horticultural Alliance of the Hamptons
1-25-24 New England Botanical Garden at Tower Hill
1-27-24 Berkshire Botanical Garden
2-7-24 New Canaan Beautification League
4-14-24 Northwest Perennial Alliance

Public Libraries

5-3-21 Wilmette Public Library
5-18-21 Highland Park Public Library
5-18-21 Edgartown Public Library
6-2-21 Brockton Public Library
6-22-21 Newton Free Library
6-24-21 Darien Public Library
7-13-21 Hingham Public Library
8-4-21 West Hartford Public Library
8-11-21 Millburn Public Library
8-30-21 Cyrenius H. Booth Library
9-19-21 Larchmont Public Library
10-12-21 Somerset County Library
3-10-22 Glencoe Public Library
3-16-22 Loudoun County Public Library
4-7-22 Durham (NH) Public Library
4-28-22 Rochester Hills Public Library
6-28-22 Milton Public Library
12-1-22 Chappaqua Public Library
12-7-22 Oak Park Public Library
1-24-23 Glencoe Public Library
1-31-23 Poughkeepsie Public Library
2-2-23 Tompkins Public Library
2-8-23 Northville District Library
2-9-23 Loudoun County Public Library
2-21-23 Groton Public Library
4-5-23 Vineyard Haven & West Tisbury Public Libraries
4-26-23 Robbins Library
5-18-23 Bronxville Public Library
6-23-23 Wilmette Public Library
9-26-23 Baldwin Public Library
11-1-23 Guilderland Public Library
12-4-23 Scarsdale Public Library
1-23-24 Northville District Library
5-7-24 Northville District Library
5-14-24 Groton Public Library
6-4-24 Wilmette Public Library

GARDEN CLUBS

4-14-21 Somerville Garden Club
7-13-21 Norwell Garden Club
7-20-21 Wayland Garden Club
7-30-21 Thursday Garden Club of Sudbury
7-31-21 Natick Garden Club
8-10-21 Milford Garden Club
10-5-21 Carlisle Garden Club
10-18-21 The Hills Garden Club of Wellesley
10-26-21 Wayland Garden Club
11-1-21 Westhampton Garden Club
11-4-21 Sudbury Garden Club
11-4-21 Thursday Garden Club of Sudbury
11-10-21 West Roxbury Garden Club
1-11-22 Garden Club of Brookline
1-20-22 Natick Garden Club
4-4-22 Perennial Gardeners of the South Shore
4-5-22 Andover Garden Club
5-10-22 Williamstown Garden Club
10-11-22 Charles River Valley Garden Club
11-7-22 Garden Club of Larchmont
11-28-22 Garden Club of Harvard MA
12-13-22 Wayland Garden Club
1-19-23 Weston Garden Club
1-26-23 Olympia Garden Club
2-7-23 Bogestow Garden Club
2-7-23 Walnut Hill Garden Club of Hanover, MA
2-8-23 Stonington Garden Club
2-14-23 Mountain Gardeners of Vermont
2-23-23 Garden Club of Somerset Hills
2-28-23 Norwood Evening Garden Club
3-20-23 The City Gardens Club of NYC
4-26-23 Arlington Garden Club
1-16-24 Chestnut Hill Garden Club
1-18-24 Wollaston Garden Club
2-6-24 Marion Garden Group
2-8-24 West Hartford Garden Club
2-9-24 Garden Club of Old Greenwich
2-20-24 Hopkinton Garden Club
3-4-24 Lincoln Garden Club
3-14-24 Remsenberg Garden Club