Daily Archives: March 22, 2012

Thursday, April 5, 7:00 pm – Pruning Outdoor Trees and Shrubs

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Pruning is a practice that is periodically required on all woody landscape plants and a yearly pruning program helps to maintain the health, beauty and safety of plantings. Jack Kelly of Bartlett Tree Experts will discuss those techniques that are safe and reasonable for the home gardener to do as well as discussing when it’s time to call in an arborist for consultation and management of large or difficult specimens. The lecture, entitled Pruning Outdoor Trees and Shrubs, will take place at the Massachusetts Horticultural Society’s headquarters at Elm Bank in Wellesley on Thursday, April 5 beginning at 7 pm. The event is free but registration is recommended at www.masshort.org.

Wednesday, April 4, 10:00 am – 11:00 am – Agribusiness and the Politics of Cheap Food

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Boston University history professor Louis Ferleger will speak on Wednesday, April 4, beginning at 10 am, on Agribusiness and the Politics of Cheap Food.  Mr. Ferleger has served as executive director of the Historical Society at Boston University, and is coauthor of A New Mandate: Democratic Choices for a Prosperous Economy, and No Gain, No Pain: Taxes, Productivity and Economic Growth.  He has served as editor of Agriculture and National Development: Views on the Nineteenth Century, and has co-edited Slavery, Secession, and Southern History (2000) and, with Walter Dean Burnham and Thomas Ferguson, Voting in American Elections: The Shape of the American Political Universe Since 1788 (Academica Press, 2009.)  You may register online at www.bu.edu/foodandwine/register, or call 617-353-9852.  $30.  You will receive location information upon receipt of payment.

Tuesday, March 27, 7:00 pm – One Writer’s Garden: Eudora Welty’s Home Place

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By the time she reached her late twenties, Eudora Welty (1909-2001) was launching a distinguished literary career. She was also becoming a capable gardener under the tutelage of her mother, Chestina Welty, who designed their modest garden in Jackson, Mississippi. From the beginning, Eudora wove images of southern flora and gardens into her writing, yet few outside her personal circle knew that the images were drawn directly from her passionate connection to and abiding knowledge of her own garden. Jane Roy Brown’s book One Writer’s Garden: Eudora Welty’s Home Place contains many previously unpublished writings, including literary passages and excerpts from Welty’s private correspondence about the garden.  Ms. Brown will speak at Porter Square Books, 25 White Street in Cambridge on Tuesday, March 27, beginning at 7 pm.

Brown is a freelance travel and garden writer with a focus on historic gardens and landscapes. She is also director of educational outreach for the Library of American Landscape History. She has published in Horticulture, Preservation, Garden Design, and the Boston Globe, and she serves as a contributing editor to Landscape Architecture.  Call 617-491-2220, or visit www.portersquarebooks.com for more information.