On the QT | The Official Newsletter of GWA February-March 2016 | Page 9

REGIONAL NEWS & NOTES series will describe webinar formats, registration and payment options, marketing, and handling live Q&A sessions on your own. Learn by doing, with a small group of supportive colleagues. See: corsonlearning. com/create-your-own-webinars/. 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. REGION III SUE MARKGRAF 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 9