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Saturday, October 2, 10:00 am – 11:30 am – Enhancing Your Spring Garden with Bulbs

From snowdrops to alliums, spring bulbs can enliven your garden, adding interest and splashes of color while taking little room. In this October 2 illustrated lecture at Hollister House Garden in Washington, Connecticut, Page Dickey will show and describe a succession of bulbs, some well loved, others little known, to consider and successfully plant.

Page Dickey is a garden writer, lecturer, and designer. Her latest book, Uprooted: A Gardener Reflects on Beginning Again, was published in autumn 2020. Page is on the Board of the Garden Conservancy and co-founded the Open Days Program in 1995. She is also on the boards of Stonecrop Gardens, in Cold Spring, NY, and Hollister House Garden in Washington, CT.

Page lives and gardens with her husband, Bosco Schell, in the company of at least one beloved dog at Church House in Falls Village, CT. $25 for HHG members, $35 for nonmembers. REGISTRATION

September 21, 2021
Wednesday, May 3, 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm – The Challenge of a Public Native Plant Garden: Maintenance, Interpretation, and Compromise

The New York Botanical Garden’s new Native Plant Garden opened in 2013. Designed by Oehme van Sweden, it includes a diversity of microclimates on 3.5 acres of varied terrain with a planting plan of almost 100,000 native trees, shrubs, wildflowers, ferns, and grasses. On Wednesday, May 3 at 7 pm at the Cambridge Public Library, 449 Broadway in Cambridge, curator Michael Hagen will explain how this garden is successfully maintained, and their criteria for what constitutes “native” in species selection and the use of cultivars. This very public landscape presents native plants in a contemporary style, with an emphasis on aesthetics over recreating habitat. Michael will share his observations about how the public perceives and responds to the value of this native plant palette, along with ideas for inspiring others to “go native.”

Michael Hagen is Curator of both the Native Plant Garden and the Rock Garden at NYBG. He previously served as Staff Horticulturist for over 11 years at Stonecrop Gardens in Cold Spring, New York and was Garden Manager at Rocky Hills in Mt. Kisco, a preservation project of the Garden Conservancy.
This lecture co-sponsored by the Boston Society of Landscape Architects and Grow Native Massachusetts.

Door open at 6:30 for general seating, and the event is free and open to the public.

May 1, 2017
Thursday, August 7, 10:00 am – 12:00 pm – The Beautiful Garden of Bunny Williams

Join head gardener Eric Ruquist on Thursday, August 7, for a tour of the beautiful country garden of renowned interior designer and author Bunny Williams. Located in the northwest corner of Connecticut, the tour is timed to take advantage of the height of this magnificent gardenâ€™s flora display. In addition to an insider look at maintaining one of Connecticutâ€™s most beautiful gardens, Mr. Ruquist will focus on the cutting garden and demonstrate how he brings the garden indoors with beautiful floral arrangements. Participants are encouraged to bring a picnic lunch to enjoy on the property following the program.

Eric Ruquist is an artist, gardener and for 13 years the head gardener for Bunny Williams. He was curator of flower garden collection at Stonecrop Gardens, located in Cold Springs, NY, and greenhouse manager for a private estate in Westchester County. Eric thinks of himself as a plantsman and also gardens his own riverside property in Falls Village.

Bring a bag lunch and dress for the weather. Participants can choose to carpool or drive separately. Those joining the carpool should meet in the parking lot at Berkshire Botanical Garden for a 9:15 am departure. Carpool will return at approximately 1:30 pm. (Program time in Falls Village, CT, is 10am â€“ noon.) BBG members $50, nonmembers $60. To register, visit http://www.berkshirebotanical.org/ai1ec_event/the-beautiful-garden-of-bunny-williams/?instance_id=2618.

July 8, 2014