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  • Saturday, February 26, 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm – Clean Composting, Online

    Compost is the answer to most soil problems, such as compaction, poor water-holding ability and low fertility. In this Berkshire Botanical Garden online class on February 26 at 12:30 pm with instructor Daryl Beyers, students will discover why compost is the key to gardening sustainably and how to use it effectively to improve their garden ground to grow healthy plants. Learn the basics of composting and the techniques to create your own compost at home, using bins, tumblers, heaps or pits or directly on garden beds. Daryl Beyers is the author of The New Gardener’s Handbook: Everything you need to know to grow a beautiful and bountiful garden, available from Timber Press. As gardening certificate program coordinator at the New York Botanical Garden, he helps guide the program’s curriculum and teaches popular gardening classes. Daryl has more than twenty-five years of professional landscaping experience, specializing in residential garden design and development. As a staff writer, photographer and editor for Fine Gardening magazine, he authored two special issues on garden design and served as a contributing garden editor for Martha Stewart Living. His articles on gardening and garden design have also appeared in Horticulture and HGTV Magazine.    Register at www.berkshirebotanical.org

  • Wednesday, January 19, 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm – Trees That Always Please, Online

    Join Fine Gardening Magazine on January 19 at 7 for a free one hour webinar followed by a thirty minute Q &A on Trees with Paul Cappiello.

    Trees are a big investment. This isn’t only because they often have a hefty price tag, but also because they take up a lot of garden real estate and aren’t plants that you’ll be able to readily relocate. When choosing a tree, it’s important to make sure it performs in all four seasons. It shouldn’t just have lovely spring blooms and decent fall color. It should also have winter interest and other noteworthy traits that shine when it’s not at its peak. And a tree should be largely pest- and disease-free, with low needs when it comes to care. After all, who wants to invest in a plant that will require 50 years of high maintenance?

    Woody plant expert Paul Cappiello understands these requirements well. As executive director for the Yew Dell Botanical Gardens in Crestwood, Kentucky, he is constantly evaluating the pros and cons of trees. And on his plant travels around the world, he’s always keeping an eye out for trees that are exceptional in myriad ways. For this presentation, Paul reached out to several of his horticultural friends and colleagues to provide you with a list of incredible trees that you will never regret planting. Whatever you choose, it will be one of the best garden investments you’ll make. Register at https://www.finegardening.com/article/trees-that-always-please-webinar

  • Saturday, June 26, 10:30 am – 12:30 pm – Digging Deeper: A Small Space with a Big Feel

    Join The Garden Conservancy and George and Marcia Chapman for a walk through their remarkable 37-year-old, half-acre garden on Cape Cod, in East Falmouth, on June 26 at 10:30 am. Moving purposefully through the space, these horticultural experts and generous teachers will share the specific techniques used—layering, vistas, winding paths, and obscured property lines—to create a garden with an engaging array of features that feels much larger than its actual size. Along the way there will be discussion of the hundreds of varieties of plants these collectors use with finesse. Regardless of the scale of your garden and the depth of your experience, be prepared to be inspired and take away practical ideas you can apply elsewhere. The Chapmans have worked in professional horticulture for more than 45 years, directing three retail garden centers and growing plants on fifteen acres and in three acres of greenhouses. Their garden has been featured in Cape Cod Home and Fine Gardening magazines.

    Registration 
    $30 Garden Conservancy members
    $40 General admission

    For more information, please contact the Garden Conservancy by telephone 845.424.6500, M-F, 9-5 Eastern, or email events@gardenconservancy.org.   

  • Wednesday, March 10, 10:00 am – 11:30 am – Ornamental Meadow Gardens, Online

    This Massachusetts Horticultural Society online lecture on March 10 from 10 – 11:30 explores using native plants in an ornamental way to create dynamic, stunning meadow gardens. Layout techniques echoing the way plants communities intermingle will make your flowering planned meadow garden looks cohesive and natural. Choice plants will be highlighted. $16 for Mass Hort members, $23 for nonmembers. Register at www.masshort.org

    Maria von Brincken, principle of Maria von Brincken Landscape Garden Design, is an award-winning certified designer (APLD and LI) celebrating her 21st year in professional practice. Maria specializes in custom beautiful spaces and colorful flower gardens using native and ornamental plants.

    Trained as a fine artist, color theorist, and organic gardener Maria brings years of critical design thinking to her landscape solutions. Her design has been featured in Fine Gardening Magazine, Landscape Ideas You Can Use and others. 

    Her lectures and workshops have been featured at Mass Hort, Boston The Flower Show, Radcliffe Seminars and the LI, Conn. Master Gardener’s Conference, Perennial Plant Conference, ELA – just to name a few. Her lectures, classes, and workshops teach successful ways of thinking and techniques. Learn more about Maria and her work at www.mariavonbrincken.com

  • Thursday, July 9, 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm – The New Gardener’s Handbook, Online

    On July 9 at 6:30 pm, enjoy an online Berkshire Botanical Garden lecture and Q&A session with author Daryl Beyers about his new book, The New Gardener’s Handbook, available for purchase through the BBG online shop. Novice or experienced, all gardeners learn something new every time they step into a garden to check on a plant, dig in the soil or harvest the fruits of their labor. Daryl Beyers, author of The New Gardener’s Handbook, shares the why-dos of the how-tos that help gardeners grow beautiful and bountiful gardens. Daryl will discuss the fundamentals of how plants grow, the importance of soil, how to sow seeds, watering and weeding. New gardeners will come away with a foundation to help their gardens flourish, and accomplished gardeners will learn expert insights and some new tips and tricks. Our Summer Author Series is presented in collaboration with Tower Hill Botanic Garden and Timber Press.    $10 for members of sponsoring organizations, $15 for nonmembers. Register at https://www.berkshirebotanical.org/events/summer-author-series-daryl-beyers-new-gardeners-handbook-online

    Daryl Beyers is author of The New Gardener’s Handbook: Everything You Need to Know to Grow a Beautiful and Bountiful Garden, available from Timber Press. As gardening certificate program coordinator at the New York Botanical Garden, Daryl helps guide the program’s curriculum and teaches the popular Fundamentals of Gardening course and courses on container gardening and garden design. He has more than 25 years of professional landscaping experience, specializing in residential garden design and development. As a staff writer, photographer and editor for Fine Gardening magazine, Daryl authored two special issues on garden design, and he served as contributing garden editor for Martha Stewart Living. His articles on gardening and garden design have also appeared in Horticulture and HGTV Magazine. 

  • Thursday, January 23, 5:30 pm – Landscaping Ideas That Work

    Thursday, January 23, 5:30 pm – Landscaping Ideas That Work

    Join The Massachusetts Horticultural Society and New England Landscape Design and History Association on a wintry day, Thursday, January 23 at Elm Bank, to talk about warm plans for your garden. Julie Moir Messervy, an entertaining and inspiring lecturer, will discuss the concepts and ideas behind her new book Landscaping Ideas That Work which will be released on January 7, 2014. A wine and cheese reception at 5:30 pm will precede the lecture, which begins at 6:30 pm. Books will be available for purchase and signing before and after the lecture.

    In her presentation, Julie will share how her Landscaping Ideas that Work can provide homeowners with design strategies for combining elements and creating spaces that work for them and their home; tips for working effectively with landscaping professionals; innovative ideas for transforming all aspects of their yard into inviting outdoor spaces; and strategies for designing more sustainable landscapes and gardens.

    Messervy is the designer of the award-winning Toronto Music Garden and numerous public and private landscapes. She is a distinguished lecturer and the author of seven books on landscape design, including Landscaping Ideas That Work; Home Outside: Creating the Landscape You Love; and Outside the Not So Big House with Sarah Susanka. She is “The New Homestead” columnist for Organic Gardening magazine and was the popular columnist of “Inspired Design” for Fine Gardening magazine.

    Messervy is also the principal of JMMDS in Saxtons River, Vermont, a landscape architecture and design firm serving individuals and organizations. With their Home Outside online design service and Home Outside Palette app for iPhone and iPad, Messervy and JMMDS are pioneering new ways to bring good landscape design to homeowners everywhere.

    Register for this event at https://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/eventReg?llr=kzaorjcab&oeidk=a07e8l83g7mb018fad7.

    Mass Hort or NELDHA Members – $15.00
    $20.00 after Thursday January 9, 2014

    Non-Members – $20.00
    $25.00 after Thursday January 9, 2014

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  • Tuesday, February 12, 10:00 am – 12:00 noon – Why Grow That When You Can Grow This?

    Andrew Keys, designer , consultant, writer, and lifelong gardener, host and producer of Fine Gardening’s Garden Confidential podcast, and author of Why Grow That When You Can Grow This? will speak on Tuesday, February 12, from 10 – noon at Garden in the Woods, Framingham, in a program co-sponsored by the Ecological Landscaping Association and the New England Wild Flower Society.  Tired of fussy plants that require excessive care and maintenance?  In this presentation, Mr. Keys will discuss native New England alternatives that are sexier and more sustainable than high-maintenance plants in every way.  Pining to grow lilac but lack the full sun?  Try the fragrant pink and white flowers of Korean spice viburnum.  Love the drama of canna but need something hardier?  Tr4y the bold foliage of variegated fleece flower.  Hundreds of all-star alternatives that replace, and often outshine, popular problem plants will be discussed.  $26 for ELA and New England Wild Flower Society members, $32 for non members.  Register by calling 617-436-5838 or visit www.ecolandscaping.org.

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  • Thursday, June 30, 10:00 am – 4:00 pm – Martha’s Vineyard Open Days Garden Tour

    On Thursday, June 30, explore three private gardens in Vineyard Haven and West Tisbury, open to the public through The Garden Conservancy’s Open Days program. Hours vary at each garden. Admission to each private garden is $5, Open Days are rain or shine, and no reservations are required. Call 1-888-842-2442, or visit www.opendaysprogram.org for more information.

    At East Hill (133 Pasture Gate Road, Vineyard Haven; 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.), Isabel Shattuck’s property on Lake Tashmoo features a welcoming moongate and split-rail fence draped with ‘New Dawn’ roses, hinting at the abundant blooms beyond. Lavenders, delphiniums, lilies, and additional roses are just some of the plants grown in the perennial garden, while stewartias, hollies, azaleas, and ferns highlight a woodland path. The Tashmoo Garden (253 West Spring Street, Vineyard Haven; 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.) was begun thirty-two years ago and has evolved to include specimen trees such as dawn redwoods, copper beech, and katsura, as well as a hillside of daylilies, a peony hedge, hydrangea and azalea collections, and a vegetable/cutting garden. At The Folly (57 Lamberts Cove Road, West Tisbury; 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.), ivy-covered balustrades and finials, planted urns, and winding hedges evoke an Italian villa, while a color theme of blue, white, and green foster a cool and relaxed atmosphere. Parterres, groundcovers, ferns, and flowers combine with stonework, varied grades, and views of the Vineyard Sound beyond.

    These Open Days gardens are featured in the 2011 Open Days Directory; a soft-cover book that includes detailed driving directions and vivid descriptions written by their owners. The directory includes garden listings in eighteen states and costs $21.95 including shipping. Visit www.opendaysprogram.org or call the Garden Conservancy toll-free at 1-888-842-2442 to order with a Visa, MasterCard or American Express, or send a check or money order to: the Garden Conservancy, P.O. Box 219, Cold Spring, NY 10516. Discount admission tickets are available as well through advanced mail order.

    The 2011 Open Days program is generously sponsored by Fine Gardening magazine as its National Media Sponsor. Fine Gardening magazine brings you breathtaking design ideas, helpful techniques, and the know-how to get great results in your own garden.  Painting by Thaw Malin III entitled “West Shore, Tashmoo” available at www.thawmalinart.com.

  • Thursday, June 23, 10:00 am – 4:00 pm – Nantucket Open Days Program Garden Tour

    The Garden Conservancy’s Open Days program returns to Nantucket on Thursday, June 23, featuring four private gardens open to the public, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Admission to each private garden is $5, Open Days are rain or shine, and no reservations are required. Call 1-888-842-2442, or visit www.opendaysprogram.org for more information.

    The Doubleday Garden (28 Easton Street) is a quintessential summer garden, featuring stone walls and a rose border, a mixed border of choice annuals, perennials and shrubs, a rose arbor that overflows with a mixed palette of color, plentiful window boxes and flower pots on the waterside deck, with views of downtown Nantucket, its harbor and coastline. The Garden at 186 Cliff Road contains a variety of garden rooms, including a formal rose-and-boxwood parterre, a deer-resistant perennial bed in yellows, blues, whites, and pinks, a small courtyard with a water feature, and a vegetable garden. At Cliffmoor (102 Cliff Road), large masses of perennials give the whole landscape a serene feel, while a sunken vegetable garden is flanked by productive espaliered apples and a grape arbor on opposing sides. The Hallowell/Langer Garden (15 Trotts Hills Road) features a dramatic stone wall and is planted with proven favorites and interspersed with rare and unusual perennials the owner collects from specialty nurseries.  Photo below from Nantucket Lawn & Garden.

    These Open Days gardens are featured in the 2011 Open Days Directory; a soft-cover book that includes detailed driving directions and vivid descriptions written by their owners. The directory includes garden listings in eighteen states and costs $21.95 including shipping. Visit www.opendaysprogram.org or call the Garden Conservancy toll-free at 1-888-842-2442 to order with a Visa, MasterCard or American Express, or send a check or money order to: the Garden Conservancy, P.O. Box 219, Cold Spring, NY 10516. Discount admission tickets are available as well through advanced mail order.

    The 2011 Open Days program is generously sponsored by Fine Gardening magazine as its National Media Sponsor. Fine Gardening magazine brings you breathtaking design ideas, helpful techniques, and the know-how to get great results in your own garden.

    The Garden Conservancy introduced the Open Days program in 1995 as a means of introducing the public to gardening, providing easy access to outstanding examples of design and horticultural practice, and proving that exceptional American gardens are still being created. The Open Days program is America’s only national private garden-visiting program, and is made possible by the work of hundreds of volunteers nationwide.

  • Friday, April 1 – Saturday, April 2 – Eighth Annual Great Gardens and Landscaping Symposium

    The inspirational and exhilarating Eighth Annual Great Gardens and Landscaping Symposium (that has sold out for several years) will energize your approach to gardening.  The symposium will be held Friday, April 1 and Saturday, April 2 at The Equinox Resort, a world class, four diamond resort in Manchester, Vermont.  The symposium features six info-packed lectures led by nationally and regionally renowned professionals in their fields, as well as a vendors area.  Exchange ideas and swap “the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat” gardening stories with other passionate gardeners at workshops, meals and free time.  Drawings for great gardening gifts throughout the Symposium will sweeten the deal.  One and two night packages are available, as well as day-only rates.  Speakers include Ellen Ecker Ogden on The Complete Kitchen Garden: The Art of Designing a Classic Potager, Bill Cullina on The Botany of Design, as well as Beyond Black-eyed Susans and Border Phlox: Exceptional Native Perennials for Creative Gardening, Charlotte Albers on Mad About Blue, Heather Poire speaking on Proven Winners Annual: The Perfect Accessory for Perennial Gardens, and Kerry Ann Mendez presenting Exciting New or Underused Perennials for 2011. Symposium sponsors include The American Horticultural Society, Equinox Valley Nursery (see their lilac image below,)  The Espoma Company, Fine Gardening Magazine, Gardener’s Supply Company, Liquid Fence, Luster Leaf Products, Neptune’s Harvest, Proven Winners, SmileMonster.com, and White Flower Farm.  You may register on line at www.pyours.com/Symposium2011.html.  Registration deadline is March 28.