The Garden Club of Houston
held the
NANCY STALLWORTH THOMAS
HORTICULTURAL LECTURE
Guest Speaker: Amy Stewart
Wednesday, February 11, 2026
10:00 AM (doors open at 9:30 AM)
St. Martin’s Episcopal Church
717 Sage Road, Bagby Hall
Open to the Public. Free of Charge.
Amy Stewart is the New York Times best-selling author of the The Tree Collectors, The Drunken Botanist, Wicked Plants, and several other popular nonfiction titles about the natural world. She’s also written several novels in her beloved Kopp Sisters series, which are based on the true story of one of America’s first female deputy sheriffs and her two rambunctious sisters.
Her books have sold over a million copies worldwide and have been translated into 18 languages.
She lives in Portland with her husband Scott Brown, a rare book dealer who can usually be found at his shop, Downtown Brown Books.
Amy’s 2009 book Wicked Plants was adapted into a national traveling exhibit that terrified children at science museums nationwide for over a decade. Even better, a few bars around the world are named after The Drunken Botanist.
She has been awarded a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, the American Horticulture Society’s Book Award, the National Outdoor Book Award, and an International Association of Culinary Professionals Food Writing Award.
The Nancy Thomas Horticulture Lecture was established in 1995 with a gift from the Sellers J. Thomas, Jr. Family to honor Nancy Thomas, a former president of the Garden Club of America and the Garden Club of Houston. The lecture is held biennially in February. This event focuses on horticulture. Recent speakers have included Karl Gercens III, Doug Tallamy, Adriaan Geuze, William Cullina and Antonia Adezio.