This week, in continuing celebration of Black History Month and looking forward to Women’s History Month, CP Guest Host Abra Lee is in conversation with Wambui Ippolito.
As Abra notes, you are in for a treat. As a longtime colleague, Abra considers Wambui “not just a leader, horticulture extraordinaire and visionary. She is a beautiful poet, she is a designer and most importantly for me, she is my sister and friend.”
Wambui is an award-winning landscape designer, lecturer, and horticulturist who works in both commercial and residential landscape design. In 2021, Wambui’s garden design “Etherea”, based on a reimagining of her native African grasslands, won best in show at the Philadelphia Flower Show and that same year Veranda Magazine named her one of the top “11 revolutionary women landscape designers and architects everyone should know.”
She is known for pouring her heart and soul into her work and living life actively, not as a bystander. From childhood, she has been heavily influenced by Kenya's Great Rift Valley, and its wide vistas and spatial organization shine through in her work - which spans from Africa to New York, NY to Richmond, VA. Enjoy!
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