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  • Thursday, September 6, 7:00 pm – Creative Design with Color and Texture in the Garden

    Thursdays at the Hort continues September 6, beginning at 7 pm, with Warren Leach of Tranquil Lake Nursery speaking on Creative Design with Color and Texture in the Garden. Creating a great garden involves the juxtaposition of many elements. Before you plant, think about color – both foliage and blooms, and in-season and end-of-season – and plant and leaf texture. If you do your homework, you’ll have a garden that brings pleasure both to yourself and your visitors. Warren Leach, co-owner of Tranquil Lake Nursery in Rehoboth, MA, is a landscape horticulturist noted for his distinctive and enduring garden designs.

    Presentations will begin at 7pm 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.  Photo of daylilies from Tranquil Lake Nursery below from www.fileunderfiber.blogspot.com.

  • Saturday, January 28, 2:00 pm – Gardening Mixed Media – Growing Vegetables and Fruit in the Ornamental Landscape

    The Edwardian kitchen garden sequestered behind walls is long gone. Enthusiastic gardeners with limited space and sun exposure unabashedly mix food production within the most ornamental of landscapes, even the front yard. Landscape designer and horticulturist Warren Leach will show how the ‘vegetable patch’ can be transformed, structured within raised beds, provide abundant production, and be the focal point of the landscape, in this free (with admission) Tower Hill Botanic Garden session on Saturday, January 28, beginning at 2 pm at Tower Hill. Warren, as many of you know, is the co-owner of Tranquil Lake Nursery in Rehoboth. For more information, visit www.towerhillbg.org.  Photo from www.veggiegardeningtips.com.

  • Saturday, June 18, 10:00 am – 4:00 pm – Seekonk Open Days Garden Tour

    Landscape designer Andrew Grossman’s Seekonk, Massachusetts gardens, which border the Martin Wildlife Refuge and the Runnins River, showcase a wide variety of perennials, shrubs, and grasses. The property includes a blue-and-white garden, a hot colored garden with a checkerboard thyme patio, a cottage garden planted with roses and other old-fashioned favorites, and a rustic pond surrounded by bog plantings. There is also a cutting garden currently planted with tea roses and dinner plate dahlias.  Andrew’s garden will be open on Saturday, June 18, from 10 – 4 as part of the Garden Conservancy’s Open Days schedule, along with three additional gardens in nearby Kent County, Rhode Island.  For a complete description, visit http://www.gardenconservancy.org/opendays/open-days-schedule/openday/390-east-greenwich-area-open-day.  Admission is $5 per garden, or $25 for all six gardens open on this date.  Discounted ticket booklets can be purchased on June 18 at each participating private garden or at Tranquil Lake Nursery, 45 River Street, Rehoboth, Massachusetts.

     

  • Thursday, August 12, 10:00 am – Beyond Blooms: Color and Structure by Season

    Warren Leach, Co-Owner of Tranquil Lake Nursery in Rehoboth, will speak at Highfield Hall, 56 Highfield Drive in Falmouth, on Thursday, August 12 at 10 am.  Warren Leach is an award winning landscape horticulturist who creates enduring garden designs for customers’ homes or businesses.  He has written articles for American Nurseryman on national and spoken at regional events ranging from Brown University and Swarthmore College presentations at several prominent flower shows, to a guest appearance on PBS’s Victory Garden.  He will share how to think about the structure of your garden and the importance of having a plan.  By paying attention to palette, sequence and seasonality, you can develop a winning garden.  $5 suggested donation.  For information, log on to www.highfieldhall.org.

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