REGION I
REGION II
REGIONAL NEWS & NOTES
REGION I
CARMEN DE VITO
I am thrilled to be sharing my first post about events in Region 1 as a new Regional Director. We have so many great events coming up with talented and engaging speakers from New York to Massachusetts and beyond. I hope you will join us at one or more of these events this winter and share them with your gardening circles online and off. Please send any events or news to me at: cdevito66 @ gmail. com
Kerry Ann Mendez will be leading special threehour“ Garden Design” and“ Remarkable Plants” classes at premier garden centers in the Northeast. Five locations in four states: Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York and Virginia, beginning February 18. For more info: pyours. com / events.
On February 19, Kathy Purdy will present” Fight Cabin Fever with Your Garden” at Winter Doldrums, a joint meeting of the Hudson Adirondack Daylily Society, the Upstate New York Hosta Society and the Capital Hudson Iris Society, open to the public, Albany Cooperative Extension Center, 24 Martin Road, Voorheesville, New York. For more information: Kathryn Mohr kemohrke @ aol. com or Cathy Fruhauf 518-858-3718, cathyfruhauf @ hotmail. com
Karen Bussolini will be conducting an“ Ecofriendly Garden Coaching Brainstorming Session,” drawing from her garden coach experiences in creating sustainable, enjoyable yards, Friday, February 24, and giving a slide talk,“ Planting the Year-Round Pollinator Garden,” February 25, at the 36th annual Connecticut Flower & Garden Show. For more information: ctflowershow. com.
Charlie Nardozzi will be on the flower show circuit this winter speaking at the Vermont Flower Show, Essex Junction, March 3; Boston Flower Show, March 9-10; St. Louis Flower Show, March 25; Northwest Flower & Garden Show in Seattle, March 25-26 and the San Francisco Flower & Garden Show, April 5. He’ ll also speak at the Connecticut Hardy Plant Society, March 4.
Connecticut gardeners will get the benefit of Lorraine Ballato’ s expertise as she covers two popular subjects— twice.“ Foolproof Hydrangeas” at the Greens Farms Garden Club of Westport on March 7 and also for the Farmington Garden Club on April 10. On February 28, the Long Hill Garden Club of Trumbull will hear Lorraine speak about“ Roses,” as will The Gardeners of New Canaan on April 3. For info about any of these events contact Lorraine at: ladygardener @ msn. com.
On March 16, Jo Ann Gardener will give a PowerPoint presentation to the New York Unit of the Herb Society of America at a member’ s home in Armonk, New York:“ The New Bible Garden: Exploring plantings across America and their roots in the Holy Land,” drawn from her book Seeds of Transcendence: Understanding the Hebrew Bible Through Plants. For more info: jgardner1 @ westelcom. com.
On March 18, Julie Moir Messervy will give the keynote lecture,“ Landscaping Ideas That Work,” in New London, Connecticut, at the CMGA Symposium held at Connecticut College. For info: ctmga. org.
Carol Julien will present her program on white gardens,“ Hope Floats on White” at Wellesley College Botanic Gardens, Wellesley, Massachusetts, on April 7. Details: Carol Julien.
Marie Iannotti will be giving the keynote,“ A Gardener’ s Tour of the Hudson Valley,” at the Ulster Master Gardeners Garden Day on Saturday, April 8, at State University of New York-Ulster.
REGION II
DENISE SCHREIBER
Dan Benarcik spoke February 10 on“ The Art of Gardening,” and February 11 on“ Inspiration + Creativity, Taking Cues from Nature,” at the 10th International Perennial Plant Conference in Germany.
Landscape designer Sharee Solow will present“ Japanese Garden Design: Stroll Gardens of the Edo Period,” February 21 at the University of Delaware, Osher Learning Institute. On February 25, Ruth Rogers Clausen will speak at the Delaware Botanic Garden in Pepper Creek on“ Deer-Resistant Natives.” A book signing follows at East Coast Garden Center, 3066 Cordrey Road, Millsboro, Delaware. On February 26, the Friends of Green Spring Gardens winter lecture series will host a talk by Ruth,“ Coping with Deer: Annuals, Perennials and Shrubs that Deer Seldom Browse,” followed by a book signing. Call 703-642-5173 for information and to register. The Rutgers Master Gardeners of Mercer County Annual Symposium will hear Ruth talk about“ A Glorious Last Hurrah!” Details: mgofmcsymposium2017 @ gmail. com. At the Lansing( Michigan) Home Garden Show, she will give talks in the MSU Pavilion, March 16-19.
Bill Thomas will speak about“ The Art of Gardening,” March 9 at the Ecological Landscape Alliance Conference at University of Massachusetts-Amherst. On March 11, he will be the keynote speaker at Penn State University Berks campus. On March 14, Bill will speak on“ How Chanticleer Partners with Philadelphia Region for Tourism” at the North American Garden Tourism Conference in Toronto. On March 18, he will again speak about“ The Art of Gardening” for the Fernwood Botanical Garden and Nature Preserve in Niles, Michigan.
Kirk R. Brown is starting a new series of lectures for a certification in landscape design at Northampton Community College in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. The program encourages avid home gardeners or entry-level professional landscape contractors to design an original landscape plan. Six, two-hour classes will be presented during the spring semester March 15 to April 26 with garden tours planned for the summer. student landscape design projects will be completed by fall 2017.
Brown’ s John Bartram and Frederick Law Olmsted continue their interpretations as keynotes for the Western Reserve Herb Society in Cleveland, March 10; Chester County Bridge of Hope annual banquet, March 18; Charlottesville Master Gardeners, April 13; and Rothermel’ s, Country Meadows and Dunwoody Village Clubs on April 17, 25 and May 2 respectively.
Additionally, Kirk and his wife Sara Stine Brown begin a tour of the production of“ Letters to the Homefront” for adult communities and veterans groups in the greater Lehigh Valley area.
Judy Glattstein will present three topics at the Rutgers 41st Annual Home Gardeners School, in Brunswick, New Jersey, March 18:“ A Japanese Touch for Your Garden,”“ Backyard Chickens” and“ Made for the Shade.”
On April 8, Louise Clarke will be leading a crevice trough garden workshop at Longwood Gardens. Participants will learn the history of crevice gardening, identify suitable plants, and plant their own hypertufa troughs with selected
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