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  • Tuesday, July 11 – Thursday, July 13 – Nantucket Garden Festival

    The 14th Annual Nantucket Garden Festival highlights the unique and beautiful garden ecosystems on Nantucket and focuses on the importance of sustainability, conservation and gardening ethics for the long-term health of the island. Scheduled for July 11th-13th, the festival celebrates gardening through creative lectures and workshops, exquisite garden tours, and children’s activities.

    Presenters this year include New England based event designer and floral artist Tori Samuel. Also speaking are Nick and Allison McCullough. Based in Ohio, he and his team at McCullough’s Landscape & Nursery create and maintain plant-centric gardens in and around the Midwest that are both ecologically sensitive and family-forward. The Keynote Speaker is Roy Diblik. Inspired by the diversity of plants and their relationships in remnant prairies and woodlands, his design practice is placing plants together encouraging tight plant communities that live well with each other while pursuing compatible and thoughtful stewardship practices. Roy is co-owner of Northwind Perennial Farm located in Burlington, Wisconsin. He has been growing traditional and native perennials since 1978. His garden designs emphasize plant relationships to maintenance strategies and costs. Roy’s design and planting projects include the Louis Sullivan Arch for the Modern Wing at the Art Institute of Chicago and the lakeside plantings for the Oceanarium at the Shedd Aquarium and recently the perennial plantings for Scott Byron’s new garden design for the Chicago History Museum. His book The Know Maintenance Perennial Garden highlights his perennial gardening practice.

    Tickets are on sale now at https://www.ackgardenfestival.org/tickets

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  • Sunday, August 5, 1:00 pm – 3:30 pm – Natural Dye Workshop

    In this Tower Hill Botanic Garden Natural Dye Workshop class on Sunday, August 5 from 1 – 3:30 you will:

    -Learn about what colors have been used throughout the world/history to make beautiful naturally dyed yarns and fabric.

    -Create a color palette with natural dyes: indigo or woad, cochineal, coreopsis, weld, goldenrod and logwood using alum as a mordant.

    -See how these colors can by overdyed and modified by a second “bath” in another color or mordant- specifically iron, which saddens and copper that greens. Students will help create the dye baths.

    -Create a silk scarf using eco printing techniques using plant material provided by the instructor and/ or fresh plant material you have brought from home.

    -Complete a sample book with the dye colors used and the “recipes” to achieve each color.

    -Discuss what you can grow, find and purchase to continue personal experiments in natural dyeing.

    A list of online resources and a bibliography of helpful Natural Dye books will be given to each participant. All materials are included.

    Instructor Laura Hacker has a BFA in Fiber Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and has been working with natural dyes for 15 years. She recently exhibited in the Strands and Stems exhibit at Tower Hill. $45 for Tower Hill members, $55 for nonmembers. Register at www.towerhillbg.org.

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  • Sunday, February 4, 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm – Natural Dye Workshop

    On Sunday, February 4 from 1 – 3, learn how to use plants to create a color palette of natural dyes and use indigo to make a beautiful Shibori scarf, at Tower Hill Botanic Garden, 11 French Drive in Boylston.

    Instructor Laura Hacker has a BFA in Fiber Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and has been working with natural dyes for 15 years. She recently exhibited in the Strands and Stems exhibit at Tower Hill. $40 for Tower Hill members, $55 for nonmembers. Register online at https://towerhillbg.thankyou4caring.org/pages/event-registration-form—natural-dye-workshop

  • Tuesday, June 23 – Sunday, June 28 – Gardens of Greater Chicago

    Join Pat Wipf and the Pacific Horticulture Society June 23 – 28 for a tour of top public and private gardens of the Windy City and surrounding towns and hamlets.  Check in to the Embassy Suites near the Magnificent Mile and have dinner at Rick Bayless’s Frontera Grill.  The next day you’ll visit Rick Bayless’s garden with Bill Shores (pictured below,) a completely organic garden serving as a model for urban food production.  Enjoy an architectural river cruise, a tour of a unique Bucktown garden designed by Julie Siegel, the Lily Pond at Lincoln Park, Millennium Park, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Chicago Botanic Garden, and a number of private gardens in Chicago and Evanston. Read details and get pricing information at http://www.sterlingtoursltd.com/Chicago2015.html.Â