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  • Saturday, November 6, 10:00 am – 12:00 noon – Crazy, Mixed-up Border

    This kitchen sink approach to garden making welcomes representatives from every realm of the plant kingdom including trees, shrubs, annuals, tropicals, edibles and perennials. No leaf is left unturned in this search for the best and brightest of forms, foliage and flowers, which are then combined to create garden vignettes whose beauty lasts from spring through fall. The crazy, mixed up border also relies on artful garden framework, inspiration in geometry, contributions of thoughtful hardscape and consideration of a well kept edge. This is a gardening style that celebrates change and experimentation.  Enjoy this Berkshire Botanical Garden lecture on Saturday, November 6, from 10 am – 12 noon.  The cost is $20 for BBG members and $25 for non-members.  You may register at www.berkshirebotanical.org, or call 413-298-3926.

    Steve Silk is an award-winning photographer and writer. He has worked for at the Hartford Courant, and Fine Gardening magazine. His photography has garnered two Garden Writers of America awards for best portfolio. He collaborated with Sydney Eddison on several projects, is past President of the Connecticut Hardy Plant Society and is the President of the Connecticut Horticultural Society.

  • Saturday, September 11, 8:00 am – 4:00 pm – A Gathering of Gardeners 2010: A Garden of Glamour

    The Master Gardeners of Monroe County and the Rochester Museum and Science Center in Rochester, NY will present a Gathering of Gardeners 2010: A Garden of Glamour on Saturday, September 11, from 8 – 4.  The programs feature nurseryman Bill Hendricks and garden consultant (and past Garden Club of the Back Bay speaker) CL Fornari.  All presentations take place in the Eisenhart Auditorium of the Rochester Museum & Science Center.

    Bill Hendricks will speak about Shrubs for the Mixed Border – Great Complement to Perennials, and Dwarf Conifers, an Investment in Garden Treasures. CL Fornari’s topics are The Top 25 and Myths, Lies, and the Latest Dirt.  There will also be a raffle, book signings and sales, and a parking lot sale.

    Bill Hendricks has been president of Klyn Nurseries in Perry, Ohio since 1987. He is a member of the American Nursery & Landscape Association and International Plant Propagator’s Society. Bill taught a plant material course at Cleveland State for 20 years, and provided review for publications including Handbook of Landscape Tree Cultivars and Landscape Plants for Ohio. He demonstrated his horticultural interest as early as age 9, starting a cactus & succulent collection ultimately including over 3,000 species as an ongoing hobby.

    Bill has received several professional awards for his extensive contributions to the green industry, and is the source of numerous photos featured in professional horticultural publications. Klyn Nurseries has more than 430 acres of fieldstock and container plants, listing more than 1,600 varieties in its catalog.

    CL Fornari is a Massachusetts free-lance garden consultant providing help with garden design, plant selection, and insect/disease concerns while concentrating on low-maintenance landscaping and least-toxic solutions to problems. A life-long grower of flowers, vegetables, shrubs and trees, she is a popular speaker at events like the New England Flower Show and Philadelphia Flower Show and has taught at the New York Horticultural Society.

    She is the author of works including Your Garden Shouldn’t Make You Crazy, A Garden Lover’s Martha’s Vineyard, A Garden Lover’s Cape Cod, and Gardening in Sandy Soils, many illustrated with her photos. CL has served as a volunteer Master Gardener with the Barnstable Cooperative Extension Service and as a seasonal employee at Hyannis Country Garden working with annuals and propagation of perennials. She believes that the lessons learned in the garden are relevant to work, relationships, spirituality and personal growth. CL shares her plant and garden experiences at her website, gardenlady.com, authors the Whole Life Gardening blog, and hosts the “GardenLine” – call-in program on WXTK radio.

    Tickets are $48, with a $5 discount if registration is postmarked by August 1.  You may download a registration form by logging on to www.gatheringofgardeners.com.  An optional box lunch is available for $11 (specify veggie wrap, tuna or turkey.)  All proceeds from this event will be used by Cornell Cooperative Extension of Monroe County to support future horticultural education programs.

  • 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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  • Wednesday, May 20 – 6-8 pm – Using Bulbs in a Mixed Border

    It’s the middle of May, there has been ample rain, and so everything around your garden probably looks great about now.  But what about later on in the season?  And, what about the early spring when perennials are still green nubs and deciduous shrubs are bare?  That’s when flowering bulbs can make all the difference between a perennial border that draws compliments in May and June, and one that delights the eye from April through September.

    Visit Elm Bank, home of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, where Brent Heath of Brent & Becky’s Bulbs, a world-renowned expert on bulbs, will explain how to most effectively incorporate bulbs into a mixed border. His program will include examples, using slides, of various approaches to this type of garden composition.  $10 members, $15 general admission. You may register on line and get directions by logging in to www.masshort.org.

    This Wednesday evening at 6 p.m., Mass Hort is pleased to welcome Brent Heath, co-owner of Virginia-based Brent and Becky’s Bulbs.  Brent is a world-renowned expert on bulbs, and he’ll explain how to most effectively incorporate spring- and summer-flowering bulbs into a mixed border.

    Brent’s program will include examples, using slides, of various approaches to this type of garden composition.  He’ll bring designs that offer color for spring and summer, showing how even modest investments can return years of bright, long-lasting blooms.  He’ll answer questions and offer hands-on advice on caring for and maintaining mixed borders.

    If you were on the Greenway from mid-April through early May, you had the opportunity to see a spectacular canvas for Brent and Becky’s Bulbs.  They were extremely generous in donating approximately ten thousand daffodil bulbs that brought a blaze of color to the Greenway Gardens.