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  • Thursday, November 1, 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm – Hardscape for the Home Garden

    Whether it’s walls, walkways, patios or other outdoor rooms, the hardscape you choose may be in the garden longer than most plants. Therefore it makes sense to research your needs and your options together. Hear renowned landscape designer Paul Miskovsky outline your steps when placing these elements and then discuss your options for choice of materials, at the first Thursdays at the Hort event for the month of November.

    Paul Miskovsky is the owner and driving creativity behind Miskovsky Landscaping. Paul is also a Trustee of Mass Hort, and the overseer of the Bressingham Garden at Elm Bank.

    Presentations will begin at 7pm on November 1 and go until all questions are answered. The classes are priced at $12 for members and $15 for non-members unless otherwise indicated. There is no need to pre-register and you may pay at the class. For more information visit www.masshort.org.

  • Thursday, May 31, 7:00 pm – A Walk Through Bressingham Garden

    This Thursday, May 31 Massachusetts Horticultural Society presentation will be a talk and walk through the Bressingham Garden at Elm Bank, which Paul Miskovsky of Paul Miskovsky Landscaping, Inc. helped to build and continues to oversee. Paul’s discussion will focus on using the plants of Bressingham in the home landscape. Learn some key points in artful garden creation by choosing plants that complement and contrast each other in structure, texture, color and season.  Paul Miskovsky is the owner and driving creativity behind Miskovsky Landscaping. Paul is also a Trustee of Mass Hort, and the overseer of the Bressingham Garden at Elm Bank. Register on line at www.masshort.org.

  • Wednesday, August 10, 7:00 pm – Designing the New Entrance Garden

    That large pile of dirt outside Mass Hort’s main gate is about to be transformed into a stunning garden. The man who will wave a magic wand over that dirt is Paul Miskovsky, who has spent his career transforming ordinary properties into award-winning gardens (and the kind that grace magazine covers). He’ll talk about what his client (Mass Hort) wanted – “a welcoming place” – and how he translated those three words into stone, soil and plant material. He’ll show you how he designs a garden and solicit your thoughts on what ought to go into this one. This program is part of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society’s Wednesdays at Elm Bank series. All “Wednesday Evenings” talks begin at 7 p.m. and are held in the Education Building at Elm Bank. They end when the last question is answered. The cost to Mass Hort members is $10 per talk or $50 for the series of ten. The charge for non-Mass Hort members is $15 per talk. Refreshments and beverages are served at all talks. For directions and more information, visit www.masshort.org.  Pictured below is the entrance garden designed by Mr. Miskovsky outside Heritage Museums & Gardens’ administrative building.

     

  • Wednesday, May 11, 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm – The Best Garden in Boston Can Be the One in Your Back Yard

    Paul Miskovsky has created, hands down, some of the most stunning gardens in New England. He has a horticulturist’s eye and he’s an artist who uses a Bobcat to sculpt nondescript properties into showcases for their owners.

    But he’s also a guy who believes that great gardens begin with selecting the right plants. And, you don’t have to have a million bucks to spend to create a garden with an ‘aura’. All it takes is a good eye and some imagination. Last year, Paul’s imagination landed his own garden on the front cover of the Boston Globe magazine’s annual gardening issue. On May 11, Paul will talk about choosing annuals and perennials for your garden. He’ll start by taking you on a walk through the Bressingham Garden at Elm Bank, which is chock full of unusual perennials. (Paul has more than a passing familiarity with the garden, he helped built it in 2007 and maintains it today, interpreting the vision of its designer, Adrian Bloom). You’ll then head back to the classroom to hear Paul talk about what works – and doesn’t work – in the home garden.

    Because of the garden walk component of the program, the starting time will be 6:30 p.m. Please assemble in front of the Elm Bank Education Building. The fee for this program is $10 for Massachusetts Horticultural Society members and $15 for non-members. Reservations are not required. As always, refreshments will be served.For more information, log on to www.masshort.org.

  • Thursday, September 23, 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm – An Evening with Adrian Bloom

    An extraordinary ‘two-fer’ for a great cause. Adrian Bloom is in America with a new book, Bloom’s Best Perennials and Grasses: Expert Plant Choices and Dramatic Combinations for Year Round Gardens. On the evening of September 23, you can meet and talk with Adrian in the extraordinary Cape Cod garden of Paul Miskovsky. Paul’s garden was recently the subject of a cover article in the Boston Globe’s Sunday magazine and is rarely open to the public.

    Tickets are $150 per person for an evening of cocktails, hors d’oeuvre and conversation. To register, contact the Massachusetts Horticultural Society’s  reservation line at 617-933-4995.

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  • Thursday, March 25, 11:30 am – 6:00 pm – Gardening Essentials at the Boston Flower & Garden Show

    The Massachusetts Horticultural Society has put together a full day of programs as part of the Paragon Group’s Boston Flower & Garden Show, opening March 24 and running through March 28 at the Seaport World Trade Center.  On Thursday, March 25, beginning at 11:30, Art Scarpa opens the morning with ‘The Care and Feeding of Houseplants’. Whether we live in a grand house or a one-bedroom apartment, houseplants are an essential part of New England because six months out of the year there’s nothing growing and green outside. This program will deal with houseplant basics: selection, care and maintenance. You will come away with your thumb considerably greener.

    At 12:30, MassHort has assembled on stage a virtual encyclopedia of gardening knowledge. Roger Swain, Paul Miskovsky and Kerry Ann Mendez invite everyone to bring their best questions on any topic related to gardening. Swain (pictured below) is the well-know host of PBS’ ‘The Victory Garden’ (he will also speak on the subject of tools on Saturday), who brings a dollop of humor to his broad knowledge of all things botanical. Miskovsky is considered one of the region’s best landscapers. He has installed two gardens on the exhibit floor; one, a 1,080 square foot garden (Falmouth-based Miskovsky Landscaping) and a second one for Heritage Museum and Gardens. Paul creates inspiring gardens for his public and private clients, but he can also tell you how to properly plant a rhododendron. Mendez is a ‘passionate perennialist’, an exceptional gardening speaker and the proprietor of ‘Perennially Yours’ in upstate New York.

    At 1:30, Rita Wollmering offers ‘Ready, Set, Grow – Preparing for a Successful Vegetable Garden’. She’ll take you through the practical steps that lead to a more successful vegetable garden. With planning, preparation and smart planting, gardeners can see an increase in both the health and yield of their plots.

    At 2:30, Betty Sanders talks on ‘The Green, Organic and Affordable Lawn’. The level of hype and dubious information about ‘organics’ has gotten to a state where someone with a wide body of knowledge, no axe to grind and nothing to sell is needed to sort it all out and answer all questions in a way that listeners understand their options.

    At 3:30 p.m., Cathy Felton will talk on ‘Editing the Mature Garden’. What do you do with a yard full of overgrown shrubs and perennials with dead centers? It may be the house you’ve lived in for 40 years or it may be the one you just purchased. Either way, bringing a landscape back to a manageable shape doesn’t always need to be a job for a contractor – or pointlessly expensive. The program will show how incremental steps can undo decades of neglect.

    At 5 p.m., Sally Muspratt offers ‘Small is Beautiful: Do-it-Yourself City Landscaping’. Not everyone has five acres, not everyone can hire a designer. The house in the city with 50 feet of street frontage can have just as much appeal as an estate. But where do you begin when you’re starting with some old boxwood and scraggly grass? This talk will take homeowners on a step-by-step process toward achieving a great landscape in a small space, and is especially appropriate for those of us located in the City of Boston.

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  • Saturday, September 26, 1 – 3 pm – Behind the Scenes at the Chelsea Flower Show

    Spend an inspiring afternoon at the Heritage Art Museum in Sandwich, Massachusetts, with Paul Miskovsky, an award winning landscape designer/horticulturist from Falmouth, MA.  In 2007, Miskovsky had the opportunity to work at the world’s most prestigious horticultural event, The Chelsea Flower Show, in London England for The Blooms Of Bressingham as a volunteer. Join him for a behind the scenes photo journey of the show’s setup to the completion – you will be astounded at the scale and quality of this event!  For more information, log on to www.heritagemuseumsandgardens.org/event.  The lecture will take place in the North Wing of the Art Museum. Free with Museum admission.