Tag: Garden Areas

  • Friday, July 24, 9 – 3 – Organic Gardening Magazine Program

    This is going to be one great day of gardening insights, delicious food, and gardening fellowship. Please make plans to join exceptional professionals in their fields Steve Silk, Ellen Ogden, Tim Kane, and Kerry Mendez at the elegant Glen Sanders Mansion (www.glensandersmansion.com) on Friday, July 24 from 9:00 – 3:00 p.m. Continental breakfast and registration will begin at 8:30 a.m. The first garden presentation starts at 9:00 a.m. Featured topics: European Kitchen Garden Designs; The Crazy, Mixed-up Border: An Eclectic Approach to Using Trees, Shrubs, Annuals, Tropicals, Edibles and Perennials; Hellstrip Gardening (some of the toughest, top performing plants for tough to garden areas including dry shade, slopes, poorly drained areas, poor soils, and hot, baking sites),and the best fruiting shrubs and trees, including their care and pruning requirements. For more about the speakers and topics, please visit www.pyours.com/gardenclasses.html.

    As a bonus, every attendee will receive a one-year complimentary subscription to Organic Gardening magazine. This premier magazine is a must for everyone interested in tips and how-to’s for organic gardening and living a healthier lifestyle. Check out this fantastic publication at www.organicgardening.com.

    The registration fee is only $65 per person for four dynamic garden talks, continental breakfast, lunch, door prizes, a one-year subscription to Organic Gardening magazine, and terrific handouts. To register, please visit Kerry’s garden classes page at www.pyours.com/gardenclasses.html. You can pay by PayPal or by check.

  • Thursday, July 16, 10 a.m. – Castle Hill Landscape Tour

    On Thursday, July 16, beginning at 10 a.m., join the Trustees of Reservation. Take a guided walking tour of this grand, early 20th-century estate by the sea, and learn how landscape architects Arthur Shurcliff and the Olmsted Brothers transformed a bare, sandy drumlin into a beautiful, country retreat. Explore the farmstead, vegetable garden, formal garden areas, and outbuildings. See website www.thetrustees.org for other dates and times. Recommended for children 8 years and older. Full (90-minute) and half (45- minute) tours.  Members of the Trustees: free, Non-Members $5.  For more information call 978-921-1944 x 4009, or email needucation@ttor.org.