«Return to Events ListingGardens & Customs: When the New World Met the Old in 17th-Century New Mexico

Much of Pueblo life, including gardening, seemed strange to the Spaniards in the 16th century. Based on Fray Alonso de Benevides’ first-hand account of Pueblo society and customs as he found them in the late 1620s, the founding father of New Mexico landscape architecture gives us a rare peek into life in New Mexico some four centuries ago.

Baker H. Morrow was the first New Mexican to be elected a Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects. He is the founder of the Master of Landscape Architecture Program at UNM where he continues to serve as the University’s first Professor of Practice. In addition, he is the co-editor of “Canyon Gardens: The Ancient Pueblo Landscapes of the American Southwest.” A book signing will follow the presentation.