On the QT | The Official Newsletter of GWA February-March 2016 | Page 9
REGIONAL NEWS & NOTES
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American Rock Garden Society on its
Philadelphia Flower Show exhibit “Grand
Teton Inspiration.” The show opens March
5. She is also teaching a workshop on
making papercrete troughs at Longwood
Gardens, April 29.
Martha Swiss presents “An Abundance of
Plants – How to Have More,” Feb. 16, at the
Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation’s
Preservation Resource Center, Wilkinsburg,
Pennsylvania (contact Mary Lu Denny,
412-471-5808, ext. 527). She speaks on “Small
Space Edibles,” April 2, at the Glade Run
Lutheran Services Spring Garden Symposium
in Zelienople, Pennsylvania (gladerun.org).
On April 11, she talks about “Gardening in
Small Spaces,” at the Mt. Lebanon
(Pennsylvania) Library, (contact David
McKibben [email protected]). On
April 12, Martha gives two presentations at
the Weekend Gardener Seminar at Westmoreland County Community College,
Youngwood, Pennsylvania: “Reimagining
Your Landscape” and “Creating a Natural
Look in the Garden” (contact Linda Hyatt at
724-837-1402). On March 10, she lectures on
“Creating a Natural Look in the Garden”
to the Green Tree Garden Club at the Green
Tree Borough Municipal Center in Pittsburgh
(contact Sue Giardina, 412-921-0287).
Kirk R. Brown travels with Frederick
Olmsted and John Bartram on a coast-tocoast swing in March and April. Beginning
with a keynote and breakout design lecture
for the Berks County Home Gardeners
Symposium on March 12, Kirk and John
next travel to the Northwest Perennial
Alliance’s Nicolay Lecture in Seattle, March
13. Fred and John appear together in Tulsa,
Oklahoma, March 19, and Oklahoma City,
March 20. John Bartram solos at the Ellicott
City/Maryland State Garden Club, March
22. Kirk finishes the month speaking to an
adult education program at Northampton
Community College, in Bethlehem,
Pennsylvania, March 30. Beginning April
1, Kirk starts a new four-session course on
landscape design for the same institution.
John Bartram returns to Laguna Beach,
California, for a talk to its garden club, April
8, as well as keynote presentations to the
National Rhododendron Society in
Williamsburg, Virginia, April 21, and
Lancaster County Bridge of Hope, April
30. Frederick Olmsted doffs his hat to the
Pennsylvania Chapter of the American
Rhododendron Society at Whitemarsh
Country Club, April 21, and with Kirk for
three lectures at the Maryland Landscape
Design School, April 26 and 27.
Chanticleer Horticulturist Dan Benarcik
speaks Feb. 18 at the Northwest Flower &
Garden Show in Seattle, as well as on April 7
at the Toronto Botanical Garden.
Ruth Rogers Clausen speaks at the
Northwest Flower and Garden Show, Seattle,
Feb. 19 and 20 (gardenshow.com). She is at
Chicago Botanic Garden (chicagobotanic.
org), Feb 23 and 24. March 3 through 6, Ruth
speaks at the West Michigan Home &
Garden Show (showspan.com) in Grand
Rapids. And, she presents the keynote
address, March 5, at Michigan State
University’s Smart Gardening Conference
(bit.ly/1PduZD8), also in Grand Rapids.
Kathy Jentz, editor of Washington
Gardener Magazine, is a featured speaker
at the upcoming RootingDC conference
(rootingdc.org) on February 27. This free,
annual event attracts more than 1,200 individual attendees from across the city, and
more than 60 local nonprofits and urban
farm collectives.
Betty Mackey is working with a team
from the Delaware Valley Chapter, North
Chanticleer Director Bill Thomas speaks
at the Sarah P. Duke Gardens, Durham,
North Carolina, March 17 and 18, and in
Madison, Wisconsin, at The Artful Garden
Symposium, April 2 with Thomas Rainer
and Kelly Norris.
Judy Glattstein is presenting at the
daylong, 40th Home Gardeners School for
the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment
Station’s Office of Continuing Professional
Education, March 19, at Rutgers University,
New Brunswick. Her topics: “Made for the
Shade: Plants & Ideas for Woodland
Gardens,” “Gardening On the Rocks:
Plants and Ideas for Rock Gardens” and
“Gardener’s World of Bulbs.” Register
online at cpe.rutgers.edu/HGS.
Chanticleer opens for the 2016 season on
March 30, Wednesdays through Sundays,
until October 30th. GWA members receive
free admission. The Chanticleer staffers
will be discussing their recently published
book, The Art of Gardening at the Radnor
Library, Wayne, Pennsylvania, April 10.
No preregistration required.
Check out Eva Monheim’s newly designed
website: evamonheim.com. She teaches
an “Ornamental and Native Shrub” class
at Longwood Gardens, Mondays, April
18 to May 23, in the main auditorium. Eva
offers a special lecture on “Sustainability
in the Garden” at the Morris Arboretum in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, April 26.
Guests are welcome when Sharee Solow
presents “Building the Home Rock
Garden: DIY Step by Step,” March 14,
at Salem United Church of Christ in
Rohrerstown, Pennsylvania. The Lancaster
County Garden Club (lancastergardenclub.
org) will see everything she did to
transform her front yard into a lowmaintenance rock garden.
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Debbie Clark (gardenthymewiththecreativegardener.blogspot.com) has moved
from Indiana to Lake Lure, North Carolina,
where she’ll continue her GWA membership.
Carol Michel talks about “Beauty and
the Vegetable Feast” at the 22nd annual
Spring Garden Clinic, sponsored by the
Marion County Master Gardeners, Feb. 27,
in Indianapolis. On March 5, she presents
“Grow Vegetables, No Excuses” at the
Hoosier Hillsides Master Gardener 2016
Spring Tonic in Paoli, Indiana.
Jo Ellen Meyers Sharp presents a “New
Plant Sampler” at the 22nd annual Spring
Garden Clinic, Feb. 27, in Indianapolis.
On March 3, she talks about “Ground
Covers: More than Ivy and Myrtle” and
“Spring Bulbs and Companions” at the
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