Wulf was born in India and moved to Germany as a child. She lives in Britain where she trained as a design historian at the Royal College of Art. She also is the co-author of This Other Eden: Seven Great Gardens and 300 Years of English History and Founding Gardeners. The Revolutionary Generation, Nature, and the Shaping of the American Nation.

Wulf’s lecture is the culmination of a series of events at four historic sites, a plant exchange, a progressive tea, a speaker on herbs and gardening experiences from last May through October.