Tips, techniques and lesser known plants for shade, with a special emphasis on later blooming herbaceous plants, is the topic of this Tower Hill Botanic Garden class on Sunday, March 29 from 2 – 3 with Ed Bowen. THBG member price $15, non-member $25. Register online at www.towerhillbg.org, or call 508-869-6111.

Ed Bowen is a working gardener and proprietor of Opus Plants, a small nursery in southeastern New England specializing in unusual herbaceous plants. For
years he was an instructor in the Massachusetts Master Gardener Program, is involved with Sakonnet Garden in Little Compton, RI, on the horticultural steering committee at
North Hill in Vermont, and has written for Horticulture Magazine and other publications.