Boston Flora

Tag: Ornamental Plants

  • Sunday, August 9, 11:00 am – 1:00 pm – Ornamental and Edible Native Plants Online

    Join horticulturists, garden designers, and artists Allyson Levy and Scott Serrano on August 9 from 11 – 1 to explore outstanding and edible native plants. They will share the magnificent diversity of American plants, showcasing highly ornamental and edible varieties that ought to be used widely in American gardens but are often not seen anywhere but botanical gardens and arboreta. This Berkshire Botanical Garden online program will include a lecture with visuals as well as a question and answer period. 

    Allyson Levy & Scott Serrano are two obsessed gardeners who garden all year long. Their goal has been to create a botanical garden that can serve as an educational resource for the public, as well as a “living textbook” of the diversity of plant life that can be grown in the Hudson Valley. Both are botanical artists who began buying plants for their artwork. When they realized they were buying and planting the same plants, they began to design a garden that is now the Hortus Arboretum & Botanical Garden.

    BBG members $10, nonmembers $15. Register at https://www.berkshirebotanical.org/events/ornamental-and-edible-native-plants-online

  • Saturday, April 4, 10:00 am – 12:00 noon – Ornamentals in the Edible Garden

    Ornamental plants can bring beauty, diversity, and wildlife, including pollinators, to your home or community garden. On Saturday, April 4 from 10 – noon, learn about general care for ornamentals, their role in food gardens, and some specific plants to consider for your space. This Trustees of Reservations free event will take place at the Edward L. Cooper Community Garden, 34 Linwood Street in Roxbury. For more information call 617-542-7696, or register at http://www.thetrustees.org/things-to-do/greater-boston/event-1866.html.  Image from www.birdsandblooms.com.

  • Monday, January 25, 10:00 am – Eat Your View: Native Edible Plants for Your Gardens

    Expand your palate as well as your concept of food’s place in the garden with native edibles planted in blended garden displays.  In this illustrated lecture New England Wild Flower Society’s Botanic Garden Director Scott LaFleur takes us behind the design and installation of the Garden in the Wood’s new edible plant garden – designed to help change the way we look at the food production system here in the U.S., where most of our daily foods are non-native and produced in mass quantity using fertilizers and pesticides.  Using all native plants, Scott weaves together design approaches, horticultural techniques, and culinary uses that you can translate to your own home.  Scott discusses the concept of a blended landscape, using ornamental plants and edible plants in a design that blurs the lines between a beautiful and a functional garden.  Blended landscapes truly allow you to Eat Your View.  The program will take place at the Wellesley College Botanic Garden on Monday, January 25, beginning at 10:00 a.m., and is co-sponsored with the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University and the Junior League of Boston Garden Club.  WCFH, Arnold Arboretum, and NEWFS  members $15, non-members $18.  The course number is HOR 10 060, and you may register at www.wellesley.edu/WCFH, or by emailing horticulture@wellesley.edu.

    Persimmons by Henna Lion.