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  • Sundays, March 5 – April 9, 1:00 pm – Gardening For Life

    The Cape Cod Museum of Natural History, 869 Main Street in Brewster, will sponsor a five part series of classes on Sundays, March 5 – April 9, on Gardening for Life.  Register online ($45 for the series, $12 for individual talks) at http://www.ccmnh.org/Gardening-for-life

    On March 5, Trevor Smith will discuss Waterwise Landscape Designs.  On March 12, Claudia Thompson speaks on Lessons from the Garden: What Native Plants Have Taught Me.  Mark Richardson of NEWFS follows on March 26 with his well received lecture Kill Your Lawn!  Nanette Masi, on April 2, covers Bird-Friendly Gardens, and the final lecture on April 9 by Michael Talbot is entitled Attractive Native Plants for the Cape Cod Garden.  For reservations, call 508-896-3867.

  • Wednesdays, June 23 & 30, 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm – Cape’scaping

    Michael Talbot of Talbot Ecological Land Care in Mashpee will present a two part series on Cape’scaping at Highfield Hall, 56 Highfield Drive, Falmouth, on Wednesday June 23 and Wednesday, June 30, beginning at 4 pm.  The first, Creating an Eco-Friendly Garden and Property, will help make your garden more interesting and enjoyable, easier to care for and environmentally friendly.  He offers ideas and tips on an ecological garden, lawn and landscape design, plant selection and installation of a Cape Cod green space to provide beauty, wildlife habitat and personal enjoyment.  The second lecture, Caring for an Eco-Friendly Lawn and Property, Michael will share how to maintain healthy gardens, lawns and plantings that are attractive and environmentally sensitive, using less water and fertilizer and safer pesticides, minimizing damage to our natural resources.  You will learn how maintaining our properties safely can mitigate the pollution of Cape Cod bays, inlets, streams, and of our drinking water.

    Michael Talbot is an award winning landscape designer, horticulturist and conservation consultant who has appeared on The Victory Garden and New England Chronicle, and has been a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Maine.  $5 suggested donation for each lecture.  For more information, log on to www.highfieldhall.org.

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  • Wednesday, August 12, 2 – 4:30 pm – Fertilizers and Soil Amendments – What Are Your Favorite Recipes?

    This summer’s Ecological Landscaping Association Roundtable will take place Wednesday, August 12, from 2 – 4:30 pm, at Tower Hill Botanic Garden, 11 French Drive, Boylston, Massachusetts.  Panalists M.L. Altobelli, Roger Sturgis, and Michael Talbot, who together bring more than 80 years of accumulated experience to ELA’s Roundtable, will discuss Fertilizers and Soil Amendments – What Are Your Favorite Recipes? Learn how to make ecological landscaping work for you.  Understanding fertilizers and soil amendments is fundamental to landscaping and is essential to successful ecological, sustainable, and organic practice.  Please join the discussion.  Email ELA.INFO@COMCAST.NET to pregister.  Walk-ins are welcome.  $20 members of ELA, $25 non-members, includes general admission to Tower Hill Botanic Gardens.  For more information on the Ecological Landscaping Association, now in its 18th year focusing on the education of green industry professionals, concerned citizens, and homeowners, log on to www.ecolandscaping.org.