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  • Tuesday, May 7, 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm – The Portable, Potted Herb Garden

    Grow your own culinary herbs, available for snipping from May to November. Nothing enhances meals like the taste of fresh herbs. Create an herb garden that can be moved from place to place to take full advantage of available sunlight. Plant 6 classic culinary herbs in a 14″ container to grow on a sunny porch, patio or doorstep. Please bring an apron and flower scissors to this Massachusetts Horticultural Society class at The Gardens at Elm Bank on May 7 from 1 – 3 if you have them.  

    Instructor Betsy Williams teaches, lectures and writes about living with herbs and flowers. A life long gardener, herb grower and cook, Betsy trained as a florist in Boston and in England. She combines her floral, gardening and cooking skills with an extensive knowledge of history, plant lore and seasonal celebrations. An entertaining lecturer, she weaves stories and legends throughout her informative talks and demonstrations.

    Her gardens, floral work and retail shop have been featured in many books, national magazines and newspapers, including The New York Times, The American Gardener, Victoria, Better Homes and Gardens, Country Living Gardner, Colonial Homes, the Herb Companion, and Traditional Homes.

    $65 for Mass Hort members, $80 general admission. Registration required at www.masshort.org

  • Saturday, May 30, 9:00 am – 1:00 pm – Reading the Forested Landscape with Tom Wessels

    This Massachusetts Horticultural Society program on Saturday, May 30, from 9 – 1 at Elm Bank in Wellesley, is based on Tom Wessel’s book, Reading the Forested Landscape, A Natural History of New England. It introduces people to approaches used
    to interpret a forest’s history while wandering through it. Using evidence such as the shapes of trees, scars on their trunks, the pattern of decay in stumps, the construction of stone walls, and the lay of the land, it is possible to unravel complex stories etched into our forested landscape. This process could easily be called forest forensics, since it is quite similar to interpreting a crime scene.

    Tom is an ecologist and founding director of the master’s degree program in Conservation Biology at Antioch University New England. Presently, he is Faculty Emeritus. Tom has conducted landscape ecology and sustainability workshops throughout the United States for over 30 years. His books include: Reading the Forested Landscape, The Granite Landscape, Untamed Vermont, The Myth of Progress, and Forest Forensics: A Field Guide to Reading the Forested Landscape.

    MUST PRE-REGISTER.  Please attend dressed to walk on uneven surfaces and in weather-appropriate attire. Lecture Fee: Mass Hort Members $35, Non-Members $40. Register online at http://www.masshort.org/eventdetail/158/422|427|433/reading-the-forested-landscape-with-tom-wessels?filter_reset=1.