Cutting gardens are lovely to view, provide fresh-cut flowers and keep your perennial borders from being raided for indoor display. On Wednesday, January 21 from 10 – 12 at the Berkshire Botanical Garden, learn how to make a small, highly productive cutting garden as an addition to the vegetable garden or as a stand-alone garden. Consider all aspects of growing cut flowers, including selecting varieties that hold up best, sowing, planting, transplanting, cultivating and preparing for indoor use. This program is designed for the home gardener.

Elisabeth Cary is the Director of Education at the Berkshire Botanical Garden and has been gardening for over 25 years. She specializes in perennial, vegetable and mixed-border gardens.  BBG members $90, nonmembers $100.  Register at http://www.berkshirebotanical.org/event/passion-for-plants-study-group-a-floral-display-growing-a-cutting-garden/?instance_id=3196.  Image from www.trinitynursery.com.