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  • Tuesday, May 15, 10:00 am – 11:30 am – Horticulture Morning with Kelly Orzel

    The Garden Club Federation of Massachusetts is excited to host Kelly Orzel, the owner at Bowery Beach Farm in Cape Elizabeth, Maine, on Tuesday, May 15 at 10 am. Want to know the secret to a garden bursting with flavor or how to design and plan your fantasy heart garden to suit your kitchen needs while composing a beautiful outdoor space? Kelly will highlight how she grows the top 12 culinary herbs and some of her lesser know favorites. She will discuss modern-day herb gardening and how it evolved from those first grown within monastery walls and formal knot gardens. You’ll get to learn how to create those intricate loops and hedges and determine which herbs will lend their scents and colors to your own backyard. It’s a jam-packed presentation that will also cover container and companion herb plantings, as well as how to create gardens for Italian, French and other cooking styles. Kelly will also be selling and personally sign copies of her new book! Location: Espousal Center (554 Lexington Street, Waltham, MA) Cost: $5.00 Contact: Misty Florez: mistyfloral@yahoo.com

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  • Saturday, April 7, 8:30 am – 3:00 pm – Celebrating Herbs!

    The Herb Society of America, New England Unit, will sponsor Celebrating Herbs!, a symposium to be held Saturday, April 7, from 8:30 – 3 at the Hunnewell Carriage House, The Gardens at Elm Bank, in Wellesley. Speakers will include Kelly Orzel, Judith Sumner, and Betsy Williams.

    Betsy Williams will present Herbal Weddings: Old Traditions, Modern Uses. An herbal wedding is the essence of romance! The perfumed air, the delightful colors and the ancient symbolism of the plants blend to create a truly magical day. The program includes the stories and traditions of wedding herbs and the language of flowers, cultural directions for growing the herbs, garden design suggestions and how to use herbs and herbal flowers creatively in wedding flowers, food and drink. Image below from www.weddingwindow.com.

    Judith Sumner is a botanist and popular lecturer at the Arnold Arboretum, Garden in the Woods, and Assumption College. She is the author of American Household Botany, a History of Useful Plants, 1620 – 1900, and The Natural History of Medicinal Plants.

    Kelly Orzel, of Bowery Beach Farm at Cape Elizabeth, Maine, specializes in culinary and scented plants including 50 varieties of scented pelargoniums. The Backyard Gardener is her recent book.

    The early bird fee for Herb Society members is $85, $90 for non-HSA members, postmarked on or before March 10. All registrations after March 24 are $105, and registration closes March 28. No walk-ins. Registration includes coffee/tea and morning refreshments, plus a catered herbal lunch. The New England Unit of The Herb Society of America, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) educational organization. Proceeds from this fund-raising event will be used to help support educational projects. For more information visit http://www.neuhsa.org/2018Symposium.html