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Tag: Plant Combinations

  • Wednesday, September 27, 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm – Plant Combinations for Beneficial Home Landscapes

    Is your garden and yard as beautiful and beneficial as possible? Are you interested in adding some pizazz for pollinators as well as for yourself? If so, then join this creative walk through the Leventritt Shrub and Vine garden at the Arnold Arboretum with horticulturist Jen Kettell on Wednesday, September 27 from 4 – 6 to consider different combinations of plants that will provide forage for bees, snacks for wildlife and humans, nesting habitat, and seasonal allure. Jen will show how to extend the appeal and bounty of your garden across the seasons by carefully selecting and combining trees, shrubs, and vines. Fee $25 Arboretum member; $30 nonmember. Register at my.arboretum.harvard.edu or call 617-384-5277.

  • Wednesday, September 24, 7:00 pm – Plant Combinations for a Long Season of Interest

    The late season garden is full of dynamic contrasts – melding colorful late blooms, maturing fruit, fiery foliage and the plumes of ornamental grasses. Join Landscape Horticulturist Warren Leach of Tranquil Lake Nursery on Wednesday, September 24 at 7 pm for an in-depth look at exciting plants to add to your late season garden display. Warren will offer design ideas using before and after images of gardens he has designed and planted. Fall is an ideal time for planting and adding glorious fall fireworks to your own garden. The class will be held at Tower Hill Botanic Garden, 11 French Drive in Boylston, and the fee is $15 for members of Tower Hill, $25 for non members. Register on line at www.towerhillbg.org. Image from www.rhs.org.uk.

  • Wednesday, March 3, 9:00 am – New Harmonies in Container Gardening

    The Powisset Garden Club presents this program, open to the public, on Wednesday, March 3, beginning at 9 am at the Dover Town House, 5 Springdale Avenue in Dover, MA.  Katherine Tracey is co-owner of Avant Gardens, a small specialty nursery in Dartmouth, MA.  They grow a wide variety of uncommon plants, with an emphasis on tender perennials.   Kathy has been selecting uncommon plants for the container displays at Avant Gardens for over a decade.  Her years of experience have allowed her to refine the list to the best and easiest choices for easy care for plant combinations.  This slide presentation will introduce you to many new cultivars and start our creative juices flowing.  For additional information log on to http://maclubs.esiteasp.com/powissetgardenclubofdover.

  • Sunday, July 19, 3 – 4:30 p.m. – Curves, Carpets and Color – Romantic and Victorian Gardening in America

    Historic New England (www.historicnewengland.org) invites you to Castle Tucker, 2 Lee Street in Wiscasset,  Maine on Sunday, July 18, from 3 to 4:30 pm, when author Martha McDowell explores the development of an American landscaping style from the formal plans of the eighteenth century to the elaborate designs of Victorian high style.  The program is co-sponsored by the Maine Antiques Dealers’ Association.

    Marta McDowell lives, writes and gardens in Chatham, New Jersey.  She shares her garden with her husband, Kirke Bent, her crested cockatiel, Sydney, and approximately 30,000 honeybees.  Her garden writing has appeared in popular publications such as Woman’s Day, Fine Gardening and The New York Times.  Scholars and specialists have read her essays on American authors and their horticultural interests in the journals Hortus and Arnoldia.

    Following the relationship between the pen and the trowel led Marta to the poet Emily Dickinson.  Marta’s book, Emily Dickinson’s Gardens, was published by McGraw-Hill in 2005.  If you visit the Emily Dickinson Museum in Amherst, Massachusetts, you can stroll the grounds with a landscape audio tour that Marta scripted in 2007.

    Marta teaches landscape history and preservation at the New York Botanical Garden and Drew University.  She teaches gardening classes for the Chautauqua Institution.  A popular lecturer on topics ranging from design history to plant combinations, she has been a featured speaker at locations ranging from Wave Hill to the Garden Club of Philadelphia and the Cummer Museum of Art in Jacksonville, Florida.

    Marta’s latest gardening adventure was a six-month working holiday in England.  She interned at the Royal Horticultural Society’s Rosemoor in Devon and at the Chelsea Physic Garden in London.

    Her husband summed up Marta’s biography as “I am, therefore I dig.”

    $5 for Members of Historic New England, $10 for non-Members.  Pre-registration is recommended.