Expand your palate as well as your concept of food’s place in the garden with native edibles planted in blended garden displays. In this illustrated lecture New England Wild Flower Society’s Botanic Garden Director Scott LaFleur takes us behind the design and installation of the Garden in the Wood’s new edible plant garden – designed to help change the way we look at the food production system here in the U.S., where most of our daily foods are non-native and produced in mass quantity using fertilizers and pesticides. Using all native plants, Scott weaves together design approaches, horticultural techniques, and culinary uses that you can translate to your own home. Scott discusses the concept of a blended landscape, using ornamental plants and edible plants in a design that blurs the lines between a beautiful and a functional garden. Blended landscapes truly allow you to Eat Your View. The program will take place at the Wellesley College Botanic Garden on Monday, January 25, beginning at 10:00 a.m., and is co-sponsored with the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University and the Junior League of Boston Garden Club. WCFH, Arnold Arboretum, and NEWFS members $15, non-members $18. The course number is HOR 10 060, and you may register at www.wellesley.edu/WCFH, or by emailing horticulture@wellesley.edu.
