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

    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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  • Saturday, May 1, 10:00 am – 11:30 am – Thinking Outside the Box: Using Excellent Plants in Creative Ways

    On Saturday, May 1 at Hollister House & Gardens in Washington, Connecticut, Adam Wheeler of Broken Arrow Nursery in Hamden, Connecticut will share knowledge of  trees, shrubs and conifers that are often overlooked by gardeners and landscape designers when planning gardens.  This expert plantsman will present creative and unique approaches to using these plants. Gain insight into the development of unusual plants, the value and use of foliage color and texture, and creating unexpected accents though and assortment of pruning and training techniques.   Using a strong theme of diversity, Adam will showcase some of the unique varieties and cultivars available to gardeners….many of which should be new to the audience.   In addition, he will emphasize creative ways to utilize more familiar species.  Learn to develop a thought process around the plants we choose to build our gardens with and to reinforce an attitude that gardening is fun and should be as much about the process as the end result.

    Adam will bring a selection of plants from Broken Arrow available for purchase after his talk.

    Adam started playing with plants at Broken Arrow in 2004 after completing his BS degree in Urban Forestry and Landscape Horticulture at the University of Vermont. His favorite responsibilities at the nursery include plant propagation and the acquisition and development of new plants. He is a past recipient of the Young Nursery Professional Award from the New England Nursery Association and is the current Vice President of the North American Maple Society. He loves to share his passion for plants through photography and educational outreach.

    Limited seating. Reservations are required for all Barn Talks. Masks mandatory in the Barn.

    HHG Members $25, Non-members $35. Register at https://hollisterhousegarden.org/ or call 860-868-2200