Boston Flora

Tag: Horticulturist

  • Tuesday, September 15, 6:30 – 8:30 pm – Design a Native Mixed-Border Garden

    The Trustees of Reservations is sponsoring an illustrated lecture and workshop at Long Hill Horticultural Center in Beverly, Massachusetts on Tuesday, September 15, from 6:30 – 8:30 pm.  You’ll learn how to artfully combine shrubs and small trees with a selection of perennial and annual herbaceous plants, and to create a border garden with four seasons of beauty.  Horticulturist and landscape designer Laura Eisner will illustrate basic design principles you can apply to planning and planting a mixed border of any size and shape.  Also covered will be a range of native North American plants that thrive in borders.  Along with plant attributes and drawbacks, Laura will talk about those difficult areas where your plants never seem to thrive and she will discuss which plants will do well there.  Co-sponsored with the New England Wild Flower Society.  Members of the Trusees or NEWFS $25, nonmembers $30.  Registration required.  Contact bzschau@ttor.org.  Log on to www.thetrustees.org for directions.

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  • Plant Society Magazine Launches

    Matt Mattus, of Worcester, Massachusetts, maintains a very good website, www.growingwithplants.com, and this week formally announced the publishing of the first prototype issue of Plant Society Magazine, available now at Magcloud.com.  Here is what Matt says about his new venture:

    “Magcloud is HP’s new Beta self publishing site for magazines, and I am using it to launch the first few issues. Magcloud tells me that that they can currently ship directly to USA, Canada and the UK. Let me know how it works if you are outside of the US. As a designer, horticulturist, trend hunter, artist, photographer, blogger and plant collector, it only seemed natural to use this new platform to launch this venture. After all, I design magazines for a living, I evaluate publication design for many of the major graphic design journals and annual award issues, I speak at both leading visual design conferences, and plant societies, and I have a vault of images taken over the past ten years from my greenhouses, alpine house and gardens.

    The publishing business is changing so fast, that what once was seen as vanity publishing, is now much more accepted in our new digital world of blogs, Twitter, Facebook, etc. You can think of this as a magazine, or a blogazine. Either way, it will morph and change as I develop future issues to include both plant related features focusing on subjects not examined by the mass market magazines, and garden lifestyle – with inspirational crafts, holiday design, food, travel, and more all planned for future issues.

    The first issue of this quarterly magazine is for people who are serious about plants. You know who you are, you don’t just like plants, you are crazy about them. You don’t just collect them, you curate your collections and you will do most anything to get that plant that you do not have.  This stunningly designed plant quarterly is a plant connoisseur’s dream come true.  It’s part botanical journal, part lifestyle magazine and part blogazine.

    This issue focuses on high summer, both in the greenhouse and in the garden of the plant collector. Learn about Nerine sarniensis, the Guernsey Lilies, Japanese trained chrysanthemums, rare South African Geraniums (Pelargonium in the section Horarea), and Crocosmia.

    Currently the magazine sells for $14.99. at 75 pages, but it is on sale as a feature of Magcloud for around $12.00 US give or take some change for shipping and handling directly through the website MAGCLOUD. Anyone in the US, Canada or UK can order direct from the Magcloud website portal, and can even pay directly from their credit card or Paypal on the site. Magcloud prints to order, and the process is very easy. In five days or less, the magazine will be printed, bound, and mailed directly to you.”

  • Wednesday, August 19, 7:30 p.m. – Plant Hunting in Asia with Dan Hinkley

    Trekking through remote forests in exotic destinations in search of rare and wondrous plants may seem like a Victorian pursuit, but not to plant explorer Dan Hinkley. This award-winning horticulturist, nurseryman, and garden writer has traveled the globe to bring unusual plants to North American gardeners. While he experiences plant exploration as a joyous adventure, he also sees it as an imperative. He emphasizes, “We need to know what is surviving at this moment in time on the planet.” For this program The Polly Hill Arboretum in West Tisbury has asked Hinkley to share his breathtaking pictures and plant hunting adventures in Taiwan, Japan, and Korea to coordinate with their plant collections and Polly’s historical interest in Asian plants. 7:30 pm. $10/$5 for PHA members. Sponsored by Donaroma’s Nursery.  For more information, contact Karin Stanley at 508-693-9426, or email her at karin@pollyhillarboretum.org.

  • Wednesday, June 24, 4 – 5:30 pm – Propagation by Cuttings Workshop

    From 1916 to 1979, Long Hill was the summer home of noted author and editor of The Atlantic Monthly, Ellery Sedgwick, and his first wife, Mabel Cabot Sedgwick, an accomplished horticulturist, gardener, and author of The Garden Month by Month. The Federal-style house was completed in 1925 and contains original woodwork from the ca.1812 Isaac Ball House in Charleston, South Carolina.

    Mrs. Sedgwick designed and planted the original gardens. After her death in 1937, Mr. Sedgwick’s second wife, the former Marjorie Russell, herself a distinguished gardener and propagator of rare plants, added many plants to the gardens, including unusual species and varieties of trees and shrubs, some introduced by the Arnold Arboretum.

    Today the gardens reflect the collective interests and tastes of both women. Five acres of cultivated grounds are laid out in a series of separate garden “rooms” surrounding the house. Each area is distinct in its own way and is accented by garden ornaments, structures, and statuary. The gardens are flanked on all sides by more than 100 acres of woodland as well as an apple orchard, meadow, and agricultural fields.

    Grow Long Hill’s signature plants from your own cuttings. Experienced propagators demonstrate setting up a propagation box, caring for your cuttings, and transplanting rooted plants. All materials provided.  $15 to Members of the Trustees of Reservations, $20 non-members. To pre-register, call 978-921-1944, x4018, or email needucation@ttor.org.