Daily Archives: September 27, 2021

Thursday, September 30, 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm – Leave the Leaves Webinar

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Let’s rethink the annual autumn ritual of removing leaves, planting lawns, and hauling debris to the local transfer station. In this one-hour talk Tower Hill Botanic Garden webinar, ecological landscape designer Kathy Connolly will talk about leaves—what they are, their role in nature, and what they can do for us. She’ll offer ways to reduce leaf cleanup, help soil, support wildlife, and still make landscapes ready for winter—and for next year’s planting beds. She’ll also explore the latest equipment for fall clean-ups, the quiet, high-powered electric leaf blowers, trimmers, mowers, clippers.

Kathy Connolly is a landscape designer who specializes in naturalized designs, low-impact techniques, and native plants for homeowners, municipalities, and other organizations. Kathy has a master’s degree in landscape planning and design from the Conway School in Easthampton, MA. She completed the advanced master gardener program and is an Accredited Organic Land Care Professional through NOFA. She is an active member of the Connecticut Invasive Plant Working Group (CIPWG). She is a regular columnist for The Day community papers which circulate throughout southeastern Connecticut and has written about lawn alternatives for The Spruce/About.com. She gives about 25 talks and workshops each year for conservation organizations, master gardeners, museums, libraries, land trusts, and garden clubs. Her website is www.SpeakingofLandscapes.com.

$10 Member Adult; $15 Adult  Register HERE.

  1. This is a recorded webinar. This program will be conducted live on September 30, 2021. Once you register you will receive a link to the video in the confirmation email. This recording is available for 2 months after the live webinar.
  2. This webinar recording will be available until November 30, 2021.

Saturday, October 9, 10:00 am – 11:30 am – The New Heirloom Garden

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Get a head start planning next years’ garden and take home fresh ideas for designing your kitchen garden, featuring Ellen Ogden’s six steps to an heirloom garden. Discover what vegetables to grow for the best flavor and what flowers for old-fashioned fragrance and why it is important to save seeds. Learn about the wide diversity of heirloom plants that you can grow to enhance your edible landscape. This class takes place on October 9 at Hollister House Garden in Washington, Connecticut.

Award winning food and garden writer Ellen Ecker Ogden, author of The New Heirloom Garden, closes our season of Barn Talks with a history of heirloom gardens and shows us how to create our own unique garden.  Her new book will be available for sale at the talk.

Ellen is a Vermont writer and author of The Complete Kitchen Garden. She cofounded The Cooks Garden seed catalog, introducing cooks and gardeners to European specialty vegetable, herbs and flowers.  Her articles have appeared in the New York Times, Martha Stewart Living, Better Homes and Gardens and Country Gardens.  Ellen lives  and works in Manchester Vermont.

HHG Members $25

Non-members $35

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