Daily Archives: August 1, 2016

Friday, August 12, 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm – The Wonderful World of Carnivorous Plants

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In this family-friendly Massachusetts Horticultural Society program on Friday, August 12 from 2 – 3:30 in the Parkman Room of the Education Building at Elm Bank, 900 Washington Street in Wellesley, the New England Carnivorous Plant Society will bring all sorts of real-live carnivorous plants for kids to touch, examine and feed. Come see tropical, North American and Australian pitcher plants, Venus flytraps, sundews, butterworts, bladderworts and corkscrew plants.

You will event get to look at their traps up close through a microscopic display, and kids get their own Venus flytrap to take home! $15/ Mass Hort members and children $25/ non-members. Register online at www.masshort.org.  Image from meijigardens.org.

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Wednesday, August 3, 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm – The Cocktail Hour Garden

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Join author C.L. Fornari for a short stroll through the gardens at Tower Hill on the evening of August 3rd, as she talks about the creation of a cocktail hour garden. Learn about great plants for your evening landscape, sip a beverage from the cash bar, and see or purchase C.L.’s new book, The Cocktail Hour Garden. Bring questions about your yard and garden to this celebration of “after hours” plants.

C.L. Fornari is a creative plant geek who fell into garden communications in 1995. She is the author seven books including her latest, The Cocktail Hour Garden, published by St. Lynn’s Press. C.L. is the host of two radio programs on Saturdays, heard on WXTK and WRKO Boston. She speaks to audiences at horticultural trade shows, garden clubs, botanical gardens, master gardener symposiums, alumni/women’s groups and neighborhood associations. In addition to speaking, radio, and writing, C.L. blogs and runs a consultation service for Hyannis Country Garden, an independent garden center on Cape Cod.

In 2012 C.L. was awarded the Garden Communicator award from the Perennial Plant Association and in 2013 won three awards from the Garden Writers Association. In 2015 C.L. launched the first annual Cape Cod Hydrangea Festival, a ten-day regional celebration of gardens that raised over $30,000.00 for local non-profits.

Her not-so-secret mission is to cultivate the gardening revival in the USA…in the meantime she grows multitudes of plants on Poison Ivy Acres in Sandwich, MA. Free with admission to the Garden.