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  • Saturday, July 8 & Sunday, July 9, 10:00 am – 3:00 pm – Westminster Garden Tour

    Westminster Cares is proud to announce the details of our 20th anniversary Westminster (Vermont) Garden Tour. The Tour Dates are Saturday July 8th and Sunday July 9th. Gardens will be open from10 am till 3 pm.

    Gordon and Mary Hayward’s Westminster West gardens will once again highlight the Westminster Cares Garden Tour. Gordon and Mary helped start the tour in 2003, after a successful garden tour for the Yellow Barn Music Festival.

    Tickets are $16 or $30 for two and are good for both days of the tour. Tickets are available here.

    ​The Westminster Center School garden, a working cut-flower farm and one other private garden in addition to the Haywards’ will be on the tour. Several special programs are planned throughout the weekend. On Saturday there will be a puppet show by Sandglass Theater; and a garden design “Talk and Walk” with Julie Moir-Messervy. On Sunday there will also be a bee-keeping workshop. Entry to these special events is included with your ticket.

  • Sunday, June 2, 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm – Digging Deeper: The Making of a Meadow Garden

    Faced with undeveloped space on his property in Petersham, Massachusetts, a true luxury for any gardener, Bruce Lockhart decided to create a meadow. Enlisting the aid of designer Gordon Hayward, Bruce gave him two directives: look to the work of Piet Oudolf and create a pollinator-friendly habitat as a companion to the orchard nearby. In 2012 Gordon arrived to lay out thousands upon thousands of meadow plants, and he brought help: nurserywoman and garden designer Helen O’Donnell, who has been part of this strong collaboration ever since. In this Garden Conservancy behind-the-scenes look at the creation and ongoing management of a visually striking meadow that is alight with more beneficial insects every year, Bruce and Helen will share techniques, challenges, successes, and, of course, favorite plants.

    Helen O’Donnell manages a garden design and maintenance business and co-owns the Bunker Farm in Vermont, where she has a specialized plant nursery. Working at Great Dixter under the tutelage of Fergus Garrett, she developed a passion for garden design and growing interesting plants from seed, as well as a belief that great gardens come from exquisitely grown plants. Helen is equally a gardener and a grower, finding she cannot be one without the other.

    Bruce Lockhart was a gardener without a garden until 1998, when he and his partner found this 88-acre property with a scrappy house and lots of weeds. It has been a labor of love ever since, the first fourteen years while working full time as a physician, and the past six years retired.

    Advance registration is required and space is limited. The event will take place at Swiftriver Farm, 27 Nichewaug Road in Petersham. $30 for members of The Garden Conservancy, $40 for nonmembers. Register early (these events sell out) at https://www.gardenconservancy.org/open-days/open-days-schedule/digging-deeper-the-making-of-a-meadow-garden

    Digging Deeper: The Making of a Meadow Garden

  • Tuesday, July 17 – Thursday, July 19 – Nantucket Garden Festival

    The 10th Annual Nantucket Garden Festival highlights the unique and beautiful garden ecosystems on Nantucket and focuses on the importance of sustainability, conservation and gardening ethics for the long-term health of the island. Scheduled for July 17th-19th, the festival celebrates gardening through creative workshops, exquisite garden tours, children’s workshops, family activities and an opening night party. The keynote speaker will be Thomas Rainer, Principal of Phyto Studio in Washington, DC. In a workshop entitled The Inspired Plantsmen: Nature-Inspired Approach to Plant Selection and Composition, Rainer, a leading voice in ecological landscape design, will discuss how plants fit together in nature and how to use this knowledge to create landscapes that are resilient, beautiful, and diverse. Both practical and inspiring, this talk will explore a synthesis of ecology and horticulture—resulting in an intentionally designed and managed plant community where population dynamics are encouraged within an aesthetic framework. Rainer’s workshop will take place on Wednesday, July 18th.

    The Festival is also thrilled to be welcoming Jennie Love of Love ‘n Fresh Flowers to Nantucket for the Festival’s first-ever Celebrity Floral Design Workshop. This half-day event, hosted in the Nantucket Yacht Club’s Governor’s Room, will include six hours of hands-on design and instruction. Participants will leave with a bouquet and a centerpiece (an abundance of flowers!). All flowers used during the workshop are grown by Love at her organic, urban flower farm in Philadelphia. Owner and Creative Director at Love ‘n Fresh Flowers, Jennie Love is a trained horticulturist and life-long farmer. Jennie first began flower farming in 2007 and launched her thriving event design studio in 2009. A charismatic and passionate business woman, Jennie found her natural niche as a “farmer florist” for wedding and special event design, becoming a recognized leader in the local flower renaissance with her distinctively lush and textural creations. She has been prominently featured in major press, including the New York Times, for her farm-to-centerpiece efforts, as well as in numerous photo shoots, magazines, style blogs, and books. She was named one of the top wedding florists in the nation by Martha Stewart Weddings (Spring 2015 issue) and received a special In Season spread featuring her work in the Summer 2016 issue of the magazine. This workshop takes place Wednesday, July 18 from 9 – 3. ($1,000 if you register before June 30, $1,250 thereafter)

    Jennie has led many design workshops and classes, including the sold-out Seasonal Bouquet Project workshops and several accredited classes for Longwood Gardens’ Floral Design Certificate program. Jennie is currently Vice President for the national Association of Specialty Cut Flower Growers and writes a regular column for the Cut Flower Quarterly. More information about Love ‘n Fresh Flowers and Jennie are available at http://www.lovenfreshflowers.com.

    On Tuesday from 9 – 11, join a Victory Garden Talk and Tour with Russell Morash, hosted by Russell and Marian Morash and sponsored by Johnny’s Selected Seeds ($85 before June 30, $100 thereafter). Also on Tuesday, from 10 – 12, is a floral arrangement workshop with Megan Soverino ($300/$350),  and a Mommy & Me Garden Tea Party from 2 – 4 ($65/$75).  If you prefer to be at the other end of the island, there will be two ‘Sconset Walking Garden Tours, one with Jenne Atherton from 2:30 – 4:30 and a second from 3 – 5 with Katie Hemingway (each $75/$85)

    Wednesday brings a Lincoln Circle Walking tour with Julie Wood from 9 – 11 and a Lincoln Circle Walking Tour with Fabrizia Lu Macchiavelli from 9:30 – 11:30 ($75/$85).  You may wish to participate in Fairy Gardens & Floral Crowns with Alana Cullen and Bee Shay from 10 – noon ($50/$60), and end the day with a Garden Soiree from 6 – 9 at Middle Brick ($150/$200).

    Thursday features Monomoy and Polpis Garden Tours with Amy Pallenberg from 9 – 11 ($75/$85) and an Intimate Garden Talk and Lunch with Gordon Hayward at the Nantucket Culinary Center from noon – 2 ($200/$225).  The Mommy & Me Garden Tea Party returns to the Nantucket Lighthouse School from 2 – 4 ($65/$75).

    To register, and for a complete calendar of events, visit http://www.ackgardenfestival.org/

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  • Saturday, January 13, 2:00 pm – The New Shade Garden: Creating a Lush Oasis in the Age of Climate Change

    Berkshire Botanical Garden’s 2018 Annual Winter Lecture will take place Saturday, January 13 at 2 pm at Lenox Memorial High School in Lenox.

    Ken Druse plumbs the depths of shade once again – 20 years after the publication of his best seller, The Natural Shade Garden. This time, it’s to tackle the challenges that have arisen due to our changing climate. The low-stress environment of shade (lower temperatures, fewer water demands, carbon sequestration) is extremely beneficial for our plants, our planet, and us. Ken details new ways of looking at all aspects of the gardening process, in topics such as designing your garden, choosing and planting trees, preparing soil, solving the deer problem, and the vast array of flowers and foliage – all within the challenges of a changing climate, shrinking resources, and new weather patterns. Ken knows that the best defense is to create a cool, verdant retreat – he says, “The garden of the future will be in the shade.”

    Ken Druse is a celebrated lecturer, an award-winning photographer, and an author, who has been called “the guru of natural gardening” by the New York Times. He is best known for his twenty gar­den books published over the last twenty-five years. The American Horticultural Society listed his first large-format work, The Natural Garden (Clarkson Potter, 1988), among the best books of all time. His book, Making More Plants (Stewart Tabori & Chang, 2012) won the award of the year from the prestigious Garden Writers Association. That group gave Ken the 2013 gold medal for photography and the silver for writing. Also in 2013, the Smithsonian Institute announced the acquisition of the Ken Druse Collection of Garden Photography comprising 100,000 images of American gardens and plants.

    The Garden Club of America presented Ken with the Sarah Chapman Francis medal for lifetime achievement in garden communication.

    KenDruse.com is a blog with ten years of archived podcast interviews. He also appears monthly on Margaret Roach’s radio show, A Way to Garden.

    The Winter Lecture Series was begun by the Berkshire Botanical Garden in 1997 and was established to bring inspiring speakers to the region to talk about horticulture, landscape design and history, plants and plant exploration, and home gardening.

    Over the years, the Garden has invited such luminaries as Marco Polo Stufano, Anna Pavord, Joe Eck, Tovah Martin, Dan Hinkley, W. Gary Smith, Penelope Hobhouse, Ken Druse, Gordon Hayward, Lauren Springer and Scott Ogden, Bill Cullina, Fergus Garrett, Debs Goodenough, Margaret Roach, Michael Dirr, Glyn Jones, Louis Benech, Alan Power and Thomas Woltz to share their knowledge of plants, gardening, design and history with an interested audience of gardeners and horticulturists from the region. The series has proven to be a popular event in the region and is held annually in mid-winter. Proceeds from ticket sales are used to further the Garden’s education and horticulture efforts.

    Advance registration is highly recommended, but walk-ins are always welcome, space permitting.  Many thanks to the Winter Lecture sponsor: The Red Lion Inn. Register online at https://berkshirebotanical.org/see-and-do/winter-lecture-series/

  • Saturday, October 1, 8:30 am – 3:45 pm – Inspirations for Next Year’s Garden

    The Massachusetts Master Gardener Association will hold its 2016 Massachusetts Gardening Symposium, Inspirations for Next Year’s Garden, on Saturday, October 1 from 8:30 – 3:45 at Westford Academy in Westford, Massachusetts. The MMGA has chosen this year’s symposium speakers not only for their expertise and the respect they have earned, but also for their ability to inspire audiences with practical tips and techniques. Here is a sampling of what you can expect to learn.

    MARGARET ROACH, author and radio/web site host – The 365-Day Garden

    The garden is never really out of season, according to Margaret Roach. Creating year-round visual enjoyment requires a combination of tactics: Learn about “botanical stars,” site selection and – perhaps most importantly – how to engage your senses in planning for 2017.

    ED BOWEN, plant breeder, horticulturist and nurseryman – The Best Plants You’ve Never Heard of

    Tired of the “same old-same old”? There is a practical aesthetic value in employing alternatives in the garden. Learn about some lesser known cultivars and species of familiar genera as well as new collections from the wild, all suited to New England’s climate.

    GORDON HAYWARD, garden designer, author and travel guide – Fine Art as Inspiration for Garden Design

    A new way to look at your garden based on how artists and garden designers use similar elements of composition to construct their images…including creating foreground/background and the use of light and shadow, focal points, contrast, and positive/negative space.

    BOB SOLBERG, nursery owner and hosta hybridizer – The Truth About Hostas: Why We Can’t Live Without Them

    The dirt on hostas: Are they right for your landscape? How about minis? Are the new hosta hybrids the best hostas? How do you maximize performance and deal with pests?

    REGISTRATION – $75 per person thru August 15; $95 per person August 16-September 24. Includes lectures, Garden Marketplace and lunch. No refunds after September 24, 2016. Register online at http://massmastergardeners.org/symposium/

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  • Thursday, February 25, 6:30 – 8:00 pm – Art and the Gardener: Taking a Fresh Look at Your Garden through Art

    The Trustees of Reservations will sponsor a lecture by Gordon Hayward on Thursday, February 25, beginning at 6:30 pm, at Long Hill, 572 Essex Street in Beverly.

    Gordon Hayward first presented this lecture at The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston in 1995; he has since been refining and presenting this slide illustrated lecture in art museums and garden organizations across the country.

    This one-hour lecture is about the visual language shared between painters and garden designers. By juxtaposing a painting and a garden image on the screen, Hayward explores the many levels of similarity between how the painter and garden designer construct their images.

    He begins by exploring style: romanticism, expressionism, pattern and decoration… and others. For example, he places Childe Hassam’s In the Garden next to an image from his own garden in Vermont to show what an impressionist passage in a garden looks like.

    He next explores many design principles you can put to work in your garden: defining depth, creating foreground/background, how light can be manipulated, the power of focal points, pleasing contrasts, framing, contrasting textures and forms and the many roles of trees in the garden.

    He closes with an exploration of color in paintings by Gauguin, Matisse, Bonnard and others, and how you can use paintings to inspire your color combinations in pots and beds.

    This is a lecture that enables you, through art, to take a fresh look at your garden from a new perspective.  The lecture is preceded by refreshments, served at 6:30.  Trustees of Reservations members $20, nonmembers $25.  To reserve, call 978-921-1944, x 4018, or email bzschau@ttor.org.  For directions, log on to www.thetrustees.org/longhill.

  • Monday, August 10, 7 pm – Gordon Hayward Garden & Art Talk

    Nationally recognized garden designer, writer, and lecturer Gordon Hayward will be at Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens in Boothbay, Maine, on Sunday, August 10, for an illustrated talk in which he’ll explore the visual language shared by painters and garden designers. The lecture, ‘Fine Painting as Inspiration for Garden Design,” begins at 7:00 p.m. and will be in the Visitor Center.

    Gordon Hayward’s presentation is based on his new book, Art and the Gardener (Gibbs Smith Publishing, 2008). The illustrated lecture will highlight artists Bonnard, Cezanne, Hassam, Monet and other masters whose paintings can inspire gardeners to virtually copy ideas from their favorite works of art to visually link house to garden.

    Hayward has been writing for Horticulture magazine for 25 years and was a contributing editor at Fine Gardening magazine for six years. He is the author of ten books on garden design. Your House, Your Garden (WW Norton, 2003) won a book award from The American Horticultural Society in 2004. His book, Small Buildings, Small Gardens (Gibbs Smith, 2007) won The Benjamin Franklin Award for the best garden book for 2007 from the Independent Book Publishers Association.

    To be sure of a place, please register in advance on line at www.mainegardens.org, stop by the Visitor Center, or call (207) 633-4333.

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