Sunday Lecture
JANUARY 11, 2026 • 11:30 am – 12:30 PM
“Nature’s Canvas: The Art of Outdoor Living Spaces”
with Fernando Wong & Tim Johnson
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Join us for an inspiring session with renowned landscape designer Fernando Wong and Tim Johnson. Known for his lush and innovative outdoor spaces, Fernando and Tim will share their insights on creating beautiful and functional outdoor living environments. Their expertise will help you transform your outdoor areas into captivating extensions of your home.
Fernando Wong has been called “one of the best landscape designers in the world by the Chelsea Design Centre in London, "one of the most influential landscape designers in America” by Elle Décor, “a genius with the soul of a poet” by Garden Design Magazine, a “landscape legend” by Forbes, and “the creative mind behind Miami’s lushest landscapes” by Architectural Digest. His television show “Clipped” with Martha Stewart is on the HGTV/Discovery Plus channels and his work has been featured on The Today Show as well as in magazines and newspapers around the world.
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Tim Johnson is the CEO of Fernando Wong Outdoor Living Design, an award-winning boutique landscape architecture firm he founded with Fernando in Miami Beach twenty years ago. The firm has grown every year since its inception and opened a second Palm Beach office in 2012. In addition to residential projects around the world, commercial design includes the Four Seasons Hotel at the Surf Club in Miami, the Four Seasons Resort in Palm Beach, the Four Seasons Private Residences in Fort Lauderdale, the Gasparilla Inn & Beach Club in Boca Grande, the Seminole Golf Club, the Starwood Luxury Collection Bardo and Mansion Hotels in Savannah, the Lyford Cay Club and a national park for the Bahamian Government.
Tim Johnson, Fernando Wong, and Martha Stewart
From the Foreword of The Young Man and the Tree:
“I met Fernando Wong on the set of a television series called Clipped. We had been selected as two of three judges who would decide the fates of several topiary artists recruited to compete in a shrub shaping topiary competition! Fernando and I immediately hit it off, realizing that we spoke the same language, “serious gardener tongue,” Fernando with a Spanish accent and I with my New Jersey/New York college girl intonations. As we discussed the presentations of the contestants, it occurred to me that Fernando actually knew an awful lot about shrubs but also a lot about landscaping and landscape design.”
– Martha Stewart
• The Young Man and the Tree from Vendome Press →
Event ticket purchase required (includes Show admission).