Brandywine Cottage announces the 2024 Galanthus Gala dates of March 1 & 2. The spring kick off event takes pace at Downingtown Friends Meetinghouse, 800 East Lancaster Avenue in Downington, Pennsylvania. This is a national event of some renown, so mark your calendars and follow @brandywinecottage on Instagram for more details. Registration is now open.
In this three-session Massachusetts Horticultural Society workshop, you’ll be introduced to how to create a winter garden for your front entry gardens or other borders. You’ll learn how to use drifts, masses, and individual plants to create garden layouts. Discover how to use shrubs and trees scaled to the home landscape. You’ll discover the role the Winter Garden plays throughout the seasons. And, how to create a garden color palette that will apply to later seasons.
If you’re redesigning an existing garden, we’ll start with a “decluttering exercise” to help you select the plants you love and thrive in your existing garden. Or if starting a new garden, a wish list of favorite plants. Then we’ll focus on designing the winter landscape of shrubs and trees—using conifers, deciduous, and broad-leafed plants. You’ll practice creating a small Winter Garden using your own pre-measured small garden (no larger 20 x 8’—bring photos too).
A Tutorial Walk in person at MHS’s Bressingham Garden will inspire our winter garden designs. Workshop complete with hand-outs, worksheets, and instructor review of your in-class work will get you started on learning the art of creating the Winter Garden.
Virtual via Zoom: January, 24 & 31, 2024. Tutorial Garden Walk Jan 25, 2024 (February 1st snow day) $135 for Mass Hort members, $170 for nonmembers. Register at www.masshort.org
Maria von Brincken, principal of Maria von Brincken Landscape Garden Design, is an award-winning certified designer (APLD and LI) celebrating over 30 years in professional practice. Maria specializes in landscape plans and coaching that creates beautiful spaces and colorful flower gardens designed for you. A certified landscape designer by profession and an artist and gardener by obsession.
