REGION I
REGION III BETH BOTTS, DIANE BLAZEK AND SUSAN MARTIN
REGION II
REGION IV BRIE ARTHUR
REGION VI NAN STERMAN
REGIONAL NEWS & NOTES
REGION I
CARMEN DEVITO
I am excited to share this interesting and diverse list of events from our Region 1 members. We have so many great events coming up with talented and engaging speakers from New York to Rhode Island and beyond. I hope you will join us at one or more of these events and share them with your gardening circles on- and offline.
Region I is also host to an exciting series of events, from Honey Weekend at Wave Hill to great tours and lectures by renowned garden designer Linden Miller. If you have news and events, please send them to me at cdevito66 @ gmail. com
Karen Bussolini speoke on“ Planting the Year-Round Pollinator Garden” at the Northeast Regional Perennial Plant Symposium on September 8 at Mass Hort’ s The Gardens at Elm Bank in Wellesley, Massachusetts.
Charlie Nardozzi will be leading a Food and Garden Tour of the Loire Valley, France, September 11-19th. There is an optional 3-day garden tour of Paris at the end of the Loire Valley tour.
REGION III BETH BOTTS, DIANE BLAZEK AND SUSAN MARTIN
Barry Glick presented two programs on“ Woodland Plants” at the Vermont Nursery & Landscape Association’ s Summer Meeting and Trade Show, Wednesday, Aug. 16, in Dorset, Vermont. See greenworksvermont. org.
Brent Horvath invites all GWA members to hear native plant expert Roy Diblik speak on September 15 as part of Ornamental Grass Day at Intrinsic Perennial Gardens, 10702 Seaman Road, Hebron, Illinois. GWA members receive a 10 percent discount on admission, which includes all tours and lunch. To RSVP, call 815-648- 2788, ext. 10, or sales @ intrinsicperennialgardens. com. Sponsored by Emerald Coast Growers.
Carolyn Roof will chair the second annual Friends of Pollinators Weekend, Friday, September 15, through Sunday, September 17, at Kentucky Dam Village State Resort Park, 166 Upper Village Drive, Calvert City, Kentucky. The Garden Club of Kentucky co-sponsors the event. GWA members receive a discounted fee of $ 35, including workshops and hands-on demonstrations. For information and registration, contact Carolyn at carolynroof02 @ gmail. com.
Bob Humm is a member of the planning committee for the 27th Barberton Mum Fest September 23 and 24, in downtown Barberton, Ohio. More than 12,000 garden mums donated by Aris Horticulture are planted. See cityofbarberton. com.
30 and October 1. She will do a presentation and book sale for the Charleston South Carolina Horticultural Society, October 9.
Brent and Becky Heath will again host Gloucester, Virginia’ s, 8th Annual Wine Festival held in Becky’ s 8-acre, Chesapeake Friendly Teaching Garden, September 23. More than 2,000 visitors attended last year, enjoying tastes of wine from 10 different wineries, shopping with 40 different vendors, sampling tasty dishes from 10 different eateries and dancing in the Music Garden to live bands that entertained the whole day. Visit the website for tickets and more information.
Brent Heath will present“ Fall Finale,” which is about bulbs that are planted in the fall that also bloom in the fall. This presentation will be held in the Chesapeake Lounge at Brent and Becky’ s, 10:30 AM, September 30. It is free and open to the public. Also in the Chesapeake Lounge on October 5, Brent will speak to the Master Gardeners about“ Bulbs as Companion Plants.” The group will take a walk through Becky’ s garden to practice identifying plants of all types. Danville, Indiana, is where Brent will be on October 7, giving various presentations and workshops for the Hendricks County Master Gardeners Conference( Jo Ellen Meyers Sharp will also be speaking there). On October 11, Brent travels to Seattle, where he will talk about“ Bulbs as Companion Plants” for the Northwest Horticultural Society at the Center for Urban Horticulture, 6:30 PM. All of these presentations are open to the public.
Pam Beck will present“ From Now to Wow: Pathways to Good Design,” a Saturday morning symposium at Green Spring Gardens in Alexandria, Virginia, October 7, sharing her design lecture,“ Movement Through the Garden.”
REGION II
DENISE SCHREIBER
Travels to the bulb growing areas of Holland provide lots of colorful images of flowers and windmills for Judy Glattstein. She will present a talk,“ Holland in Tulip Time,” filled with these images at 1:30 PM, September 30 at the Hunterdon County( New Jersey) main library.
REGION IV BRIE ARTHUR
Brie Arthur presented“ The Foodscape Revolution” at the annual Heritage Harvest Festival at Monticello in Charlottesville, Virginia, September 8. She will host a cooking demonstration and book signing at The Cape Fear Botanical Garden in Fayetteville, North Carolina, September 21, and her home foodscape will be featured during the Fuquay-Varina Garden Club Tour, September
REGION VI NAN STERMAN
Mary-Kate Mackey presented her newest book, Write Better Right Now— The Reluctant Writer’ s Guide to Confident Communication and Self-assured Style, August 21, at the Lane County Fair, in Eugene, Oregon. She will also be at the Florence Festival of Books, September 30, in Florence, Oregon.
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