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Tag: C.L. Fornari

  • Friday, July 17 and Sunday, July 19, 10:00 am – 4:00 pm – The Original Cocktail Hour Garden

    Dan and C.L. Fornari are pleased to open their flower-filled landscape on Lawrence Pond on July 17 and July 19 from 10 – 4 as part of the Cape Cod Hydrangea Fest. The address is 2 Lawrence Pond Lane in Sandwich. Find ideas for dry gardens in the bed along the road. See the organic vegetable garden that provides most of their produce from June through December. Discover “Annual Alley” where different combinations of colorful annuals are planted every year. C.L.’s test garden contains new varieties of shrubs and perennials, and the front-door garden is filled with a mix of perennials, annuals and shrubs. Visit the rain garden, a magical stumpery, many Hydrangeas and the Cocktail Hour Garden that inspired one of C.L.’s books. $5 entrance fee benefits the Barnstable Education Foundation,

  • Friday, October 13, 9:00 am – 3:30 pm – The Telling and Selling at Blithewold Gardens

    Join The Association for Garden Communicators (GWA) on Friday, October 13 from 9 – 3:30 at Blithewold Gardens in Bristol, Rhode Island, for a day long seminar and garden tour to help develop a better marketing plan for yourself, your business, your not for profit, or horticulture at large. Speakers include Angela Treadwell-Palmer and C.L. Fornari, plus a tour of the Blithewold Gardens and Greenhouse with Gail Read, Garden Manager. Additional tour opportunities on Thursday, October 12 and Saturday, October 14 include trips to Green Animals Topiary Garden, Roger Williams Park Botanical Center, Samuel Whitehorn House, and the Farmers Daughter Nursery. Registration prices range from $50 – $95, online at www.gardenwriters.org.

  • Thursday, February 14, 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm – Home Garden Remedies: The Good, The Bad, and What Were Your Thinking?

    It can be fun to think that the answer to all your garden problems is already in your kitchen and bathroom cupboards, but are household products or homemade brews really effective in the garden? C.L. Fornari looks at remedies passed over the backyard fences, through Facebook, and on Pinterest.  Learn what works, what’s a waste of time, and which “solutions” are actually garden disasters.  The lecture will take place at Elm Bank, 900 Washington Street, Wellesley, on Thursday, February 14 from 1:30 – 3, and is $15 for Mass Hort members, $22 for nonmembers.  Sign up on line at www.masshort.org.

  • Wednesday, August 3, 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm – The Cocktail Hour Garden

    Join author C.L. Fornari for a short stroll through the gardens at Tower Hill on the evening of August 3rd, as she talks about the creation of a cocktail hour garden. Learn about great plants for your evening landscape, sip a beverage from the cash bar, and see or purchase C.L.’s new book, The Cocktail Hour Garden. Bring questions about your yard and garden to this celebration of “after hours” plants.

    C.L. Fornari is a creative plant geek who fell into garden communications in 1995. She is the author seven books including her latest, The Cocktail Hour Garden, published by St. Lynn’s Press. C.L. is the host of two radio programs on Saturdays, heard on WXTK and WRKO Boston. She speaks to audiences at horticultural trade shows, garden clubs, botanical gardens, master gardener symposiums, alumni/women’s groups and neighborhood associations. In addition to speaking, radio, and writing, C.L. blogs and runs a consultation service for Hyannis Country Garden, an independent garden center on Cape Cod.

    In 2012 C.L. was awarded the Garden Communicator award from the Perennial Plant Association and in 2013 won three awards from the Garden Writers Association. In 2015 C.L. launched the first annual Cape Cod Hydrangea Festival, a ten-day regional celebration of gardens that raised over $30,000.00 for local non-profits.

    Her not-so-secret mission is to cultivate the gardening revival in the USA…in the meantime she grows multitudes of plants on Poison Ivy Acres in Sandwich, MA. Free with admission to the Garden.

  • Saturdays, 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm – The Garden Lady

    Past Garden Club of the Back Bay speaker C.L. Fornari will be hosting a new radio program about plants and gardening on Boston station WRKO, 680 on the AM dial. The Garden Lady will be heard every Saturday afternoon from 1 to 3 PM and she’ll be taking calls during those hours at 617-266-6868.

    “Regular features during this program will be Welcome To The Garden Party when we s explore what’s happening with plants and gardening right now. From the local growing conditions to the latest research, we’ll be talking about what makes the garden the place to be.

    At 1:30 PM From Yard to Table focuses on an aspect of edible landscaping or vegetable gardening.

    We’ll start off the top of the second hour with Have I Got a Plant for You!, my opportunity to rave about a plant that I love. Later in the program I’ll announce horticultural destinations, focus on some garden geek jargon, and take as many phone calls as we can squeeze in.

    I hope you’ll make The Garden Lady a regular part of your weekend and share the information about this program with your friends, garden club members, and fellow plant lovers.”

  • Wednesday, July 9, 7:00 pm – Coffee for Roses: And 70 Other Misleading Myths about Backyard Gardening

    Gardening questions? Get them answered at an evening of plant Q&A at the Porter Square Bookstore, 25 White Street, Cambridge, on Wednesday, July 9 beginning at 7 pm.

    Word-of-mouth may be a great way to learn about some products, but word-of-mouth gardening tips can be a very bad idea. The age-old practice of passing along gardening tips and tricks is no guarantee you will get a good result…it might even do the opposite. In her new book, garden expert C. L. Fornari looks at 71 common garden practices and uncovers the truth behind the lore. Do marigolds keep the bugs out of the veggie patch? Will rusty nails turn hydrangeas blue? With humor and affection, she goes back in time to sort out the good, the bad and the just plain silly…and tells us why. Coffee for Roses combines gardening history and expert advice into one useful, time- and money-saving package. The author’s award-winning full color photography is throughout.

    C.L. Fornari is a writer, speaker, and gardening expert from Cape Cod. She is a past Garden Club of the Back Bay speaker as well.

  • Sundays, April 28 and May 5, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm – The New American Garden

    Heritage Museum and Gardens in Sandwich will host author C.L. Fornari on two successive Sundays, April 28 and May 5, from 2 – 3, for a horticultural workshop entitled The New American Garden.  Advance registration is required, and there will be an additional fee for the class.  For directions and registration information visit www.heritagemuseumandgardens.org.

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  • Saturday, April 17, 8:00 am – 4:00 pm – Cape Cod Horticultural Conference

    Come to the Barnstable High School Performing Arts Center, 744 West Main Street in Hyannis on Saturday, April 17, for a full day conference beginning at 8:00 am – 4:00 pm, sponsored by the Master Gardener Association of Cape Cod.  The program will feature:

    Rick Darke, The Wild Garden: A fresh look at the wild garden concept and will illustrate why it is the most enjoyable, sensible approach for livable, ecologically sustainable modern landscapes;

    Vincent Simeone, Wonders of the Winter Landscape: How to enhance the aesthetic value and interest of the garden by using horticultural treasures such as winter fruiting plants, broadleaved evergreens, conifers and trees with interesting bark;

    C.L. Fornari, The Top 25: 25 plants that she thinks you should know about, along with the 25 most interesting/amusing/useful bits of gardening information she has learned in over 25 years of gardening.

    Book signings with speakers, lunch, marketplace, and a raffle will be part of the day. MCLP and MCH professional credits are available.  The cost of $60 includes lunch.  For more information, call 508-375-6690, or email tramos@barnstablecounty.org.  You may also find information at www.capecodextension.org.

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