On the QT | The Official Newsletter of GWA December 2016 - January 2017 | Page 10

REGIONAL NEWS & NOTES REGION I REGION II Region I keeps chugging along despite any winter weather! After the holidays we don’t stop. Now is the time to enjoy some great presentations. We can savor them when we are not so busy. This is my first report and I was slow to gather information for everyone. I will make sure to reach out and get more events to share with you this year. Please let me know of any event, show or talk you want us to promote. You can reach me at [email protected]. Denise Schreiber will talk about “Let’s Get Gardening” January 9 at the Buffalo Inn in South Park, Pennsylvania—a free event. Call 412-835-1201 to register. Denise is also teaching a Home Ga rdener Certificate Course, beginning January 25. This event is also at the Buffalo Inn and is described as a science-based curriculum. For more information call 412-350-2455. JAN JOHNSEN The Garden Conservancy will host Chip Sullivan and his workshop, “The Alchemy of Creativity,” January 12 from 2 to 5 p.m. at the Hunnewell Building Visitor Center, Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University in Boston, Massachusetts. This workshop will include a series of exercises to help participants explore the creative process. It will present various techniques, including dream mapping, creative biorhythms, visual note taking, journals, sketchbooks and the sequential narrative. At 7:00 p.m., Chip will present “Cartooning the Landscape,” at the Arboretum. Information on both presentations can be found at www.gardenconservancy.org. Kathy Purdy will speak on “Colchicums: Autumn’s Best-Kept Secret” for Hamilton Arboretum’s Third Saturday Series. The talk takes place at 10 a.m., January 17, in the Taylor Science Center Kennedy Auditorium at Hamilton College, Clinton, New York. Kathy is the 2015 GWA Silver Award of Achievement winner for Blog Writing. Kerry Ann Mendez will present a webinar “Inspired Garden Design Lessons from Magnificent Gardens in England, Canada and the United States,” at 2 p.m., January 26. Participants do not have to watch the live broadcast. They can enjoy the lecture afterwards via a link and password to the PowerPoint and lecture handout. Dawn Hummel will be speaking on “Tips and Tricks to Attract Millennials to Your Retail Garden Center” at PlantWNY, February 2 and 3, Salvatore’s Italian Gardens, Depew, New York. 10 K AT E C O P S E Y On January 18, Ruth Clausen will be entertaining the Fairfax Master Gardeners at Merrifield Garden Center in Fairfax, Virginia. Her topic is “Annuals and Perennials for Northern Virginia Gardens.” Ruth will be signing books after the talks. Lois J. de Vries will present “Cultivating The Inner Gardener” to the Bernardsville Garden Club, January 17 (snow date February 14) at the Bernardsville, New Jersey library. Two of our writers are celebrating the release of their new books. New member Jill Jonnes’ book Urban Forests: A Natural History of Trees and People in the American Cityscape was released in September, 2016. Timber Press will release Wendy Kiang-Spray’s The Chinese Kitchen Garden in February, 2017. Both authors have presentations in the new year to promote the books. Jill will speak at the New York Botanical Garden on February 3, and Wendy will have a book party at the Politics and Prose bookstore in Washington, D.C., February 5. Check Wendy’s web page for this and other events. On February 21, Sharee Solow will present “Japanese Garden Design: Stroll Gardens of the Edo Period” at the Osher Learning Institute at the University of Delaware. This is a design-build lecture that comes with handouts and tips to make your own gardens. REGION III B E T H B OT T S , S U S A N M A R T I N AND DIANE BLAZEK Sabrena Schweyer and others will teach a permaculture design course in Akron, Ohio, January 7 through March 5. The 12-session course, which leads to a permaculture design certification, is offered by her landscape design firm, Salsbury-Schweyer. Learn more and register here. Photographer Dianne Kittle will teach a sixsession class, “Social Media Digital Tools,” January 11 to February 15 at the Chicago Botanic Garden in Glencoe, Illinois. Learn more and register here. Bobbie Schwartz, FAPLD, of Bobbie’s Green Thumb in Shaker Heights, Ohio, will speak on “Making Shade Colorful” and “Designing a Deer-resistant Landscape” on January 17 at MGIX, the Midwest Green Industry Experience conference and trade show at the Greater Columbus Convention Center. Carol Michel and Jo Ellen Meyers Sharp will speak at the Indianapolis Home Show, January 20 through 29.