Daily Archives: August 20, 2021

Saturday, August 28, 10:30 am – 1:30 pm – Shady Characters, Online

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Don’t let a lack of sun cast a shadow on your garden! Find out which plants thrive in shady conditions while bringing charm and color. You’ll see how to expand your palette from reliable standards such as hosta, and plant for architectural and textural interest across the spectrum of trees, vines, shrubs, and perennials. Discover ways to improve issues that shade presents, so that you can cherish your shade as the calming treasure it is. This New York Botanical Garden online class will take place August 28 from 10:30 – 1:30, and is taught be Lorraine Ballato.

Lorraine Ballato, a Connecticut based horticulturist, wears many hats:lecturer, horticultural consultant, and garden writer/photographer. Her lectures, social media writings, magazine articles and photographs can be found in Connecticut Gardener, Edible Nutmeg, regional symposiums, flower shows, the Connecticut Master Gardener program and elsewhere. She has published two books: Successful Self Watering Containers: Converting Your Favorite Container to a Self-Waterer, and most recently, Success with Hydrangeas: A Gardener’s Guide.

$69. Registered students will receive login instructions. Register at New York Botanical Garden’s website.

Wednesday, August 26, 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm – Adaptive Gardening for People 50 Plus, Online

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A lifelong love, or a newly discovered leisure activity of gardening, should not have to end as we age.  Gardening  provides exercise, stimulation, a sense of accomplishment, hope and many other benefits for mental and physical health.  Enjoying gardening late into life also helps people on fixed incomes to “stretch the pocketbook and tight budget” by growing food in a garden and keeping a healthy diet.  Join Deborah Krause, Horticulture Therapist, to learn how to make gardening more accessible depending on your physical abilities.  Learn about adaptations for limited mobility, arthritis, vision loss, or low stamina.  You will learn basics to get started or adapt your existing garden, including raised beds, container gardening, stools, pathways easy for walkers, canes or wheelchairs, adaptive tools, watering systems and growing nutritious food.  You will leave with creative solutions to stay comfortable, active and joyous.

This August 26 webinar is free to attend thanks to the generous sponsorship by AARP Massachusetts. This webinar will be recorded and available to registrants for 1 month.  Register through Tower Hill Botanic Garden HERE.

Deborah Krause is a Registered Horticultural Therapist. She is passionate about wellness and the therapeutic benefits of horticulture for people of all ages and abilities. Deborah has served in various capacities in the American Horticultural Therapy Association (AHTA) and the Northeast Horticultural Therapy Network (NEHTN), which she co-founded, and currently is on the Board of Directors. She developed the horticultural therapy program at Perkins School for the Blind and was the horticultural therapist and coordinator of the horticulture center there for 40 years. Deborah is the horticulture educator at the Memorial School Garden where students renovated a garden and grew produce to donate to food pantries. She consults with non profit organizations and programs to design and facilitate therapeutic and educational horticulture programs. Deborah’s popular classes for adults creating sensory rich seasonal flower and plant arrangements have focused on relaxation, stress reduction and positive thinking and she is honored and happy to bring this to Tower Hill.