Tomorrow night, Wednesday, July 20, drive out to the Massachusetts Horticultural Society’s Elm Bank for an engrossing lecture on Energy-wise Landscape Design, beginning at 7 pm. You spend thousands of dollars each year to heat and cool your home. You spend hundreds of hours maintaining (or thousands of dollars paying someone to maintain) your landscaping. It’s possible to lower both expenses through environmentally conscious landscaping.
Environmentally conscious landscaping is the use of the right trees and plants in the right places to ensure that your heating and cooling systems don’t have to work overtime to keep your home comfortable. It’s using rain water runoff intelligently to use less water while gardening. And it’s choosing plants that can get by on what Mother Nature provides.
Sue Reed, a landscape architect and author, will offer practical ways you can save money, time and effort while making your landscape more environmentally healthy and energy efficient. You’ll leave with a head full of ideas of how to make your landscape ‘green’ in a very different way. She’s an engaging speaker with an infectious manner.
All ‘Wednesday Evening at Elm Bank’ presentations begin at 7 p.m. and end when the last question is answered. The price for Mass Hort members is $10, the cost to non-members is $15. Refreshments are always served. Presentations are held in the Education Building. Reservations are not required.