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Tag: Garden Design

  • Thursday, August 20, 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm – The Art of Growing Food

    The Art of Growing Food presentation at Elm Bank on Thursday, August 20 from 7 – 8:30 will inspire you to elevate an ordinary vegetable garden to an extraordinary European inspired potager. Discover new techniques to grow food in elegant and artful ways. With gorgeous color photographs from her book, The Complete Kitchen Garden, Ellen will share six steps to easily creating a beautiful kitchen garden.

    This lecture is ideal for new and experienced gardeners or anyone interested in innovative ideas and classic design. The ultimate goal is to learn new ways to design and plant a kitchen garden for productivity, low maintenance and pure pleasure, turning work into play!

    Ellen Ecker Ogden is the author of five books, including her most recent, The Complete Kitchen Garden, and co-founder of The Cook’s Garden seed catalog. She writes many articles regularly featured in Garden Design, Eating Well, Organic Gardening, Country Gardens, The Boston Globe, The New York Times and Martha Stewart Living to name a few. She is also maintains an active website and blog. For more information about Ellen and her work, visit her website here: http://www.ellenogden.com.

    Sign up here today to reserve your space! http://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/event?oeidk=a07ebal4dcu014e540b&llr=kzaorjcab  Mass Hort Members $15, Non-Members $20.

  • Thursdays, July 23 – August 6, 10:00 am – 12:00 noon – Garden Writing Workshop: The Heart of Story

    The writer Eudora Welty found her garden to be a wellspring of sensory experience that nourished her writing. She observed that when stimulated by fragrance, the sounds of insects and birds and the colors and textures of plants, our minds take flight, and stories and memories bubble to the surface. Writing in a garden provides an opportunity to tap this rich inspiration, whether the topic is the garden itself, a personal memory or a story born of the imagination. In this series taking place on three consecutive Thursdays, July 23 – August 6, participants will visit different garden spaces at Berkshire Botanical Garden and write spontaneously in response to prompts—verbal or visual cues provided by the workshop lead- er—inspired by the natural surroundings. Writers will hone their abilities to observe, stay focused and respond from their hearts. This workshop is designed to be a safe, guided experience for aspiring and experienced writers alike. Participants can enroll in one, two or all three of the sessions. Each session will focus on a different topic: (1) Memoir and Garden Memories; (2) Establishing Sense of Place; (3) Writing with All Your Senses.  BBG Members $135; Nonmembers $145. Register online at www.berkshirebotanical.org. What to bring: Come prepared to spend two hours outdoors, including moderate walking. For example, the instructor usually carries a small tote or backpack containing a notebook, pen or pencil, water bottle, light rain jacket or umbrella, sunhat, sunscreen and bug repellent. In inclement weather, the workshop will take place indoors.

    Instructor Jane Roy Brown is an award-winning writer, editor and workshop leader who lives in Conway, MA. In January 2012, Jane founded “The Heart of Story: Writing Stories of Our Lives,” a suite of workshops designed to facilitate memoir writing for adults at all levels of experience. Jane is coauthor of One Writer’s Garden: Eudora Welty’s Home Place (University Press of Mississippi, 2011), the winner of the 2012 Eudora Welty Book Award. Her writing has appeared in numerous periodicals, including The Christian Science Monitor, Garden Design, Horticulture and Preservation. She is a contributing editor for Landscape Architecture, the national magazine of the American Society of Landscape Architects, and was a regular contributor to the Boston Globe travel section from 2001–2013.

  • Wednesday, February 12, 1:00 pm – Well-Designed Gardens

    Wednesday, February 12, 1:00 pm – Well-Designed Gardens

    You know a well-designed garden when you see it. You enjoy the space. There are places to go. There are surprises. There is lush vegetation. Enjoy a trip through several well-designed residential gardens with Professor Emerita Mary Coyne as she shares images from her garden travels and explain what makes a garden work from her point of view as a landscape designer. The lecture will take place at the Wellesley College Botanic Garden on Wednesday, February 12 beginning at 1 pm.

    After her retirement from the College, Mary Coyne embarked on her retirement career and received her Certificate from the Landscape Institute in 2010. The Harriet B. Creighton Educational Garden across the driveway from the Visitor Center is designed and maintained by her. WCFH Members Free / Non-Members $10. To register, contact wcbgfriends@wellesley.edu, or call 781-283-3094.

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  • Saturday, February 16, 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm – The Minimal Vegetable Garden

    Join radical vegetable gardener and Garden Rant blogger Michele Owens at the Berkshire Botanical Garden, 5 West Stockbridge Street, Stockbridge, on Saturday, February 16 from 1 – 3 for a lecture on the joys of vegetable gardening in the minimalist style. Since World War II, most Americans have seen supermarkets and processed foods as the height of convenience. The truth is that nothing is more convenient than ending a workday by wandering into the backyard and picking something delicious for dinner. In fact, tending a vegetable garden can take much less time every week than getting into a car, driving to a supermarket and pushing a cart around its miles of aisles. And it is certainly a more life-affirming experience! Learn why the most beautiful and ecologically sound gardens nearly take care of themselves and prove that you don’t have to quit the day job in order to have a steady source of gorgeous food outside the back door.

    Michele Owens is a joyful vegetable gardener of two decades. Her book, Grow the Good Life: Why a Vegetable Garden Will Make You Happy, Healthy, Wealthy and Wise, was published by Rodale in 2011. The New York Times called it “the best” of a “bumper crop of books about vegetable gardening,” “breezy, cantankerous and funny.” Michele is a founding partner of Garden Rant, one of the most popular and influential gardening blogs, and writes about gardening for publications that include O, The Oprah Magazine, Garden Design and Organic Gardening. She lives with her family in Saratoga Springs, NY.  $25 for BBG members, $35 for non members.  Register at www.berkshirebotanical.org.

  • Thursday, May 31, 7:00 pm – A Walk Through Bressingham Garden

    This Thursday, May 31 Massachusetts Horticultural Society presentation will be a talk and walk through the Bressingham Garden at Elm Bank, which Paul Miskovsky of Paul Miskovsky Landscaping, Inc. helped to build and continues to oversee. Paul’s discussion will focus on using the plants of Bressingham in the home landscape. Learn some key points in artful garden creation by choosing plants that complement and contrast each other in structure, texture, color and season.  Paul Miskovsky is the owner and driving creativity behind Miskovsky Landscaping. Paul is also a Trustee of Mass Hort, and the overseer of the Bressingham Garden at Elm Bank. Register on line at www.masshort.org.

  • Thursday, April 19, 7:00 pm – Vegetable Garden Design for a Full Season of Great Food

    The secret to a great garden is in the planning.  The vegetable garden benefits greatly from good planning.  If you start early and make choices wisely, you can enjoy a summer’s worth of vegetables with plenty left over for storing or sharing.  Your vegetable garden can be a fun and healthy choice as you make the decisions about what to grow and how you want them grown.  Betty Sanders (www.BettyOnGardening.com) leads this Massachusetts Horticultural Society lecture on Thursday, April 19, beginning at 7 pm at Elm Bank.  Betty is a Lifetime Master Gardener, and co-designed the Chef’s Garden at Elm Bank in 2011.  Her horticultural hints appear monthly in Mass Hort’s Leaflet, and on her website.  To register for this free event, visit www.masshort.org.

  • Wednesday, August 10, 7:00 pm – Designing the New Entrance Garden

    That large pile of dirt outside Mass Hort’s main gate is about to be transformed into a stunning garden. The man who will wave a magic wand over that dirt is Paul Miskovsky, who has spent his career transforming ordinary properties into award-winning gardens (and the kind that grace magazine covers). He’ll talk about what his client (Mass Hort) wanted – “a welcoming place” – and how he translated those three words into stone, soil and plant material. He’ll show you how he designs a garden and solicit your thoughts on what ought to go into this one. This program is part of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society’s Wednesdays at Elm Bank series. All “Wednesday Evenings” talks begin at 7 p.m. and are held in the Education Building at Elm Bank. They end when the last question is answered. The cost to Mass Hort members is $10 per talk or $50 for the series of ten. The charge for non-Mass Hort members is $15 per talk. Refreshments and beverages are served at all talks. For directions and more information, visit www.masshort.org.  Pictured below is the entrance garden designed by Mr. Miskovsky outside Heritage Museums & Gardens’ administrative building.

     

  • Garden Design 2010 Green Awards – Call For Entries

    The second annual awards program sponsored by Garden Design magazine reveals the exciting moment when great design meets ecological responsibility.  Smart water and energy use, repurposing, recyclables, natives and organics, and other earth friendly innovations will be recognized.  Designers and companies owning designs are eligible to enter.  Entries must highlight key “green” components and should not have previously appeared in national publication.  Your entry should include a completed entry form (print at www.gdgreenawards.com), ten uploaded images with captions showing all parts of the completed project, and a single paragraph summary of the project.  There is a $50 fee per entry.  Winners will be published in the January/February 2011 issue of Garden Design.  Deadline for entry is May 1, 2010.

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