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  • Sunday, April 10, 1:30 pm – The Flower Workshop: Lessons in Arranging Blooms, Branches, Fruits and Foraged Materials

    Sunday, April 10, 1:30 pm – The Flower Workshop: Lessons in Arranging Blooms, Branches, Fruits and Foraged Materials

    Tower Hill Botanic Garden will host Ariella Chezar, author of The Flower Workshop, on Sunday, April 10 beginning at 1:30 for a talk, demonstration, and book signing.  With experience designing flowers everywhere from the White House to the Flower Shool New York, Ariella, one of the nation’s top floral designers, will discuss and demonstrate her approach to seasonally-influenced floral design. Her work has appeared in numerous publications including The New York Times, Martha Stewart Weddings, Sweet Paul Magazine, Modern Bride, Oprah Magazine, Garden Design, InStyle, and Town & Country. Tower Hill members $15, nonmembers $25.

  • Saturday, August 22, 10:00 am – 11:30 am – APPetizing Edibles

    On Saturday, August 22 from 10 – 11:30 at Tower Hill Botanic Garden, instructor Ellen Hoverkamp will give an introduction to imaging food using a flatbed scanner and editing scans using mobile device photo apps. Feast your eyes, satisfy your APPetite, play with food. Ellen will lecture and demonstrate imaging basics using a flatbed photo scanner as a camera for macro and still life photography with plants and vegetables from Tower Hill’s gardens. Sample images will be stored online and shared with workshop participants for adaptation using free and low cost photo editing apps for mobile devices. Through the use of a wifi enabled projector, participants will be able to send their app enhanced scans from mobile device (smartphone, iPad) to the projection screen. THBG members $35, nonmembers $45. Register online at www.towerhillbg.org.

    Pre registration is mandatory. A short list of mobile device photo and projector driver apps will be emailed in advance for download to the participant’s mobile device prior to the class. Ellen Hoverkamp has been using flatbed scanners for digital imaging since 1997. Her work has been exhibited in galleries and solo shows throughout New England, New York, New Jersey and Ohio, including a 4 month exhibition of her work at the James Beard Foundation in NYC and most recently in a 6 person “Farm to Fork” art show in California. Ellen had 2 solo shows at Tower Hill and was THBG’s first “Artist In Residence.” She won the Garden Writer’s Association 2013 Gold Medal in Photography for her gardening book Natural Companions, published in 2012 by STC Books. Her work appeared on the cover of Organic Gardening magazine in 2014, has been featured in several periodicals, most recently, on the cover and within the Spring 2015 issue of Sweet Paul Magazine.
    Please visit www.myneighborsgarden.com to view her work.