SPOTLIGHT
GARDENING PROGRAMS
Growing Everything Organically
(Including Roses)
1:30 p.m., Saturday, March 19
Award-winning garden writer Doug Oster
will present.
Seed Share
10 a.m., Saturday, March 26
Share vegetable seeds and your
stories about adventures in gardening.
The library will offer 30 types of new
garden seeds from Fedco Seeds—
kale to tomatoes to cauliflower, and
more. Register at the reference desk or
412.531.1912 ext. 209. Cost is $10 per
person.
In the Shakespearean Garden
6 p.m., Monday, March 28
Speaker Nancy C. Heraud, Penn State
Master Gardener and author, will talk
about the plants mentioned in the literary
works of William Shakespeare.
Gardening in Small Spaces
6 p.m., Monday, April 11
Landscape designer and garden writer
Martha Swiss will highlight the plants
and techniques for gardening in small
spaces. Martha Swiss is a garden writer for
Pennsylvania Gardener Magazine.
After the 1948 coup, Communist
ideology permeated citizens’ lives and
dominated all aspects of society in
former Czechoslovakia. The greatest
rival for the new regime was the church.
Father Valarian Milchik, pastor of St.
Gregory Byzantine Church, will focus
on the religious persecution during
the totalitarian rule in Slovakia from
1948‑1989.
Mt. Lebanon Genealogy Society
1 p.m., Mondays, March 21, April 18,
May 16
Discuss family history and pick up research
tips.
Growing Today’s Roses
1 p.m., Wednesday, May 11
American Rose Society Consulting
Rosarian David McKibben will guide
you through proper plant selection
and growing techniques so you can
grow good roses.
Landscape Design for the Home
Gardener
5:30-8:30 p.m., Thursdays, May 12,
19, 26
Phipps Conservatory and Botanic
Gardens Master Gardener and landscape
designer Claire Schuchman will teach this
three‑week course geared to the novice.
She will use the concepts of sustainable
design like “right plant/ right place”;
shading out weeds with ground covers;
use of hardy natives plants; and installing
rain barrels or permeable pavement.
Please bring: graph paper, pencils, ruler,
package of different colored pencils, and
some 18"‑ 24" tracing paper. Students
will benefit from having a plot plan or
a survey of their property, if available,
and pictures of gardens they like.
ATTENDANCE IS LIMITED; REGISTER AT
THE REFERENCE DESK.
Week One: site analysis, which is simply
an inventory of site features including
the house, a garage, trees, paths,
driveways, easements or even a bad
view. Also things like soil conditions,
wind, shade and sun.
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Week Two: The dreaming begins when
the students will develop a “program”
which includes planning for outdoor
activities like children’s play areas,
a pool or pond, entertaining, and
napping, as well as privacy, lighting and
security. These ideas will go on paper
and be moved around like a jigsaw
puzzle until the student is happy with
the placement.
Week Three: We take all that
information and begin to put it into a
realistic form using the scale of 1" = 8'
on graph paper. Supportive materials
covered during the three sessions
will include a discussion on the five
elements of good design, necessary
tools to accomplish the plan, and
a time for practical questions and
answers. No advance registration is
required; however, participants should
plan to attend all three sessions and
bring the recommended supplies and
information about their property to get
the most out of this landscaping course.
Morning Spanish Literature &
Conversation Group
10 a.m., Wednesdays
Speak and read in Spanish on a variety of
topics. All levels welcome.
Francophone Literature & Culture
10 a.m., Wednesdays, March 2, April 20,
May 4
Read and discuss—in French—the modern
and classical writers of the Francophone
world. New members welcome.
Conversational Chinese and Chinese
Culture
7 p.m., Thursdays
Practice your conversational Chinese and
explore Chinese culture. All levels welcome.
German Conversation Group
7:30 p.m., Mondays, March 14, 28, April 11,
25, May 9, 23
Practice your German conversation. All
levels welcome.
Advanced Italian Conversation
10 a.m., Thursdays
French Conve