Connecticut Horticultural Society

SOLD OUT!! "Pinching Perennials" workshop with Nancy DuBrule-Clemente-June 17
2023-06-17 13:00 - 14:00 UTC | NatureWorks, 518 Forest Road, Northford, CT, 06472, United States
This workshop is sold out but you can add your name to the waiting list by emailing office@cthort.org.
Join us for a “Pinching Perennials” Workshop with Nancy DuBrule-Clemente on June 17 from 1-2 pm at Natureworks, 518 Forest Road, Northford.
Join Nancy DuBrule-Clemente in the Natureworks Teaching Tent and Gardens for a talk and hands-on demonstration of how and why you should pinch back your perennials in June.
Based on the book, The Well Tended Perennial Garden by Tracy Disabato-Aust, learn why Nancy always says, “If you aren’t walking out of your garden in June with tarp loads of garden clippings, then you aren’t being brave enough!”
You will be taught why pinching back reduces staking and how it can double or triple the bloom time of your late summer and fall perennials.
The workshop is $20 and includes cold drinks and a comprehensive handout. Register now! We are limited to 25 people!

"The Eye of the Beholder: Is It Messy, or an Acquired Taste?" with Edwina Von Gal
2023-06-15 19:30 (America/New_York) | Emanuel Synagogue, 160 Mohegan Drive, West Hartford, CT, 06117, United States
The rewards of gardening with nature, not against it, are a fabulous mix of process and perception. Landscape designer Edwina Von Gal discusses why we need to change the way we garden and how to make it happen.
Our obsession with tidy, “clean” landscapes is proving to be harmful to the things and the ones we love. How can we step away from the need for ‘neat’ and let nature play a role in how we perceive, design, and maintain our human-dominated landscapes? Edwina will also discuss the new Earth Equity movement, which seeks ethical, social and environmental equity for human and non-human lives, and the systems that support them, and Perfect Earth Project’s initiative Two Thirds for the Birds, a call to action to landscape and environmental professionals to make all their projects habitat friendly.
Principal of her eponymous landscape design firm since 1984, Edwina von Gal creates landscapes with a focus on simplicity and sustainability for private and public clients around the world. She has collaborated with noted architects such as Maya Lin, Frank Gehry, Annabelle Selldorf, and Toshiko Mori, and on projects for Calvin Klein, Ralph Lauren, Richard Serra, Larry Gagosian, Robert De Niro, and Jann Wenner, as well as many others in the environmental, design, and art communities. Her book Fresh Cuts won the Quill and Trowel award for garden writing.
In 2008, while designing the park for The Biomuseo Panama, she founded the Azuero Earth Project, promoting native species reforestation on Panama’s Azuero Peninsula, perhaps the first of its kind to work without synthetic chemicals. In 2013, she created the Perfect Earth Project, a nonprofit organization dedicated to raising consciousness about the dangers of toxic lawn and garden chemicals, and the importance of planting native species, to protect the health of people, their pets, and the planet. In 2021, she launched a new initiative, Two Thirds for the Birds.

Edwina received the Institute of Classical Architecture and Art’s Arthur Ross Award in 2012 and is the 2017 recipient of Guild Hall’s Academy of the Arts Lifetime Achievement Award for the Visual Arts. In 2018 she received the NY School of Interior Design’s Green Design Award and The Isamu Noguchi Award, as well as the Conservator Award from Quogue Wildlife Refuge in 2020. She lectures regularly about nature-based landscape solutions.
Free for members; $10 suggested non-member donation.
Click here to register.
After the event, you’ll receive a recorded copy of the talk.

SOLD OUT!! Take "A Walkabout" with Edwina von Gal June 15
2023-06-15 16:00 - 18:00 UTC | CT
Enjoy a walk around the gardens of CT Hort’s own Cheryl Marino for a fun and inspiring afternoon with Edwina von Gal. You’ll get to spend some quality time with Ms. von Gal before she speaks to our members at the meeting later that night.
You’ll also get to listen to her suggestions as she tours the gardens and offers her own suggestions on how to make the property even more earth-friendly.
Edwina von Gal is the founder of the Perfect Earth Project, a non-profit organization in East Hampton, NY that raises consciousness about the dangers of synthetic lawn and garden chemicals to humans, animals, and the environment, and educates homeowners and professionals about natural, PRFCT (toxic-free) techniques that provide beautiful, safe results at no extra cost.The principal of her eponymous landscape design firm since 1984, her work has been published in many major publications and her book Fresh Cuts won the Quill and Trowel award for garden writing in 1998.
The event is $25 per person and includes a light dinner and refreshments. Register now! We are limited to 12 people!

The Plant Sale & Auction sets a new record
2023-06-06 16:27 UTC | CT
The Spring Plant Sale & Auction took place on a sunny, warm May 5. It did NOT disappoint. Donors were incredibly generous and creative with donations, volunteers brought their best game and the turnout was impressive which resulted in record-setting proceeds that topped $7,300 – a new high for a spring auction.

Our auctioneers—Nancy DuBrule-Clemente, Jim Sirch, and Kevin Wilcox—brought their vast knowledge, filling the hall with interesting particulars about each plant, making the live auction not only entertaining, but educational.

The evening not only heralds the coming of spring but it is the cornerstone event that funds the college scholarships distributed annually by CT Hort. Scholarships have been awarded since 1959 to UConn students and expanded in 2011 to include Naugatuck Valley Community College.

With the green industry in short supply of help—and in keeping with our nonprofit mission to educate—it is our intent to encourage the development of knowledgeable Horticulture graduates who will support this important sector of our state’s economy.

We want to thank the dozens of tireless volunteers for their efforts leading up to and on the day of the event. We could not have had such success without the generosity of our donors. Please keep these generous wholesalers and retailers in mind when purchasing gardening supplies:

RETAILERS Ballek’s Garden Center, East Haddam Butler Florist & Garden Center, West Hartford Broken Arrow Nursery, Hamden Cheshire Nursery, Cheshire Country Flower Farm, Middlefield Cricket Hill Garden, Thomaston E. Draghi & Sons Farm, South Glastonbury Dunning Nursery, Farmington Garden Sales, Manchester Gotta’s Farm, Portland Hart’s Greenhouse & Garden Center, Brooklyn JillyBeans Farmstand, Farmington Natureworks, Northford Paul’s & Sandy’s too, Inc., East Hampton Sam Bridge Nursery & Greenhouses, Greenwich Stonehedge Landscape & Garden Center, Newington The Garden, Woodbury The Garden Barn Nursery & Landscape, Vernon Tower Farms, Cheshire Warner Nursery & Garden Center, Simsbury Woodland Gardens, Manchester Woodward Greenhouses, Chaplin WHOLESALERS Canterbury Gardens, Canterbury Judges Farm, Old Lyme Michael’s Greenhouse, Cheshire Monrovia Nursery Co – Connecticut, Granby The Plant Group, North Franklin

INDIVIDUAL DONORS Deb Pike Judy King Cheryl Marino Robert Herman Diane Meccariello Roman & Terry Mroczkowski Valerie Bryan Fairleigh Latawic Caroline Jones ACADEMIC DONORS Naugatuck Valley Community College, Waterbury UConn Horticulture Club, Storrs

"Healthy Plants, Indoor and Out" with Dr. Nick Goltz
2023-05-18 19:30 (America/New_York) | Emanuel Synagogue, 160 Mohegan Drive, West Hartford, CT, 06117, United States
Dr. Nick Goltz, the director of UConn’s Plant Diagnostic Laboratory, will introduce fundamental techniques of Integrated Pest Management (IPM) for the home gardener as well as tips and tricks on how to help any plants—from hardy CT natives to delicate tropical houseplants—live their best lives.
Nick is the director of UConn’s Plant Diagnostic Laboratory. He moved to Connecticut shortly after graduating from the University of Florida with a degree in Plant Medicine. In addition to the plant health experience gained through his degree, Dr. Goltz worked for the UF Plant Diagnostic Center since 2019, and by working at state and federal regulatory laboratories since 2016, performing research to develop biological control options for the management of invasive snails and insects. Dr. Goltz has a passion for plant health and integrated pest management and is deeply excited to work with growers and homeowners to find holistic and comprehensive solutions for any plant problem they may be dealing with.
Free for members; $10 suggested non-member donation. After the event, you’ll receive a recorded copy of the talk.
Click here to register.

Get ready! CT Hort Spring Plant Sale & Auction is May 5
2023-05-05 18:30 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | CT
Mark your calendar to attend this lively, fun-filled, and educational event on Friday, May 5, starting at 6:30pm at Bethany Covenant Church (785 Mill St., Berlin).
With growing season and Mother’s Day approaching, the auction is a great spot to find just the right plant or gift. The evening begins with a plant sale while bids are accepted for unusual silent auction items and refreshments are served. Then it’s on to the live auction.
Horticulturist Nancy DuBrule-Clemente will once again curate the night’s offerings. Our goal is to secure a broad selection of unusual perennials, annuals, vegetables & herbs, shrubs, and silent auction treasures. Nancy will be joined on the auction stage by horticulturist Kevin Wilcox, and educator and naturalist Jim Sirch. The plant knowledge these three hold could fill volumes!
Members: please be aware that plant donations from private gardens will no longer be accepted due to the spread of Asian jumping worms—an invasive pest that can destroy entire beds in a matter of weeks. Houseplants are acceptable. If you are a home gardener and feel you have a specimen that may be of interest, please email the Auction Committee to discuss.

Proceeds from the evening provide scholarships to Plant Science students at the University of Connecticut (since 1959), and Naugatuck Valley Community College (since 2011). In addition, funds in excess of our scholarship commitments will spill over to a new civic grants program named CT Hort Cares that was started this year. Cares grants will support plant science educational efforts in communities and schools across our state. Mini-grants of up to $500 are available and will be distributed in mid-May. Since the school year starting Sept 2000, CT Hort has given away $175,700 to 82 recipients, with some students receiving more than one scholarship.
To maximize the amount we contribute to these worthwhile efforts, we’ll be charging a modest $5 admission fee. Please come join in the fun! For additional information or questions please email auction@cthort.org.

May Board Meeting
2023-05-04 19:00 UTC | Online Meeting

"Nibbling on Natives in Your Back Yard and Beyond" with Russ Cohen
2023-04-20 19:30 (America/New_York) | Emanuel Synagogue, 160 Mohegan Drive, West Hartford, CT, 06117, United States
There’s an increasing interest among homeowners, property managers and others to utilize more native species in their landscaping, thanks to books like Doug Tallamy’s Bringing Nature Home, which extol the virtues of native plants over exotic ornamentals for attracting and sustaining beneficial insects. Yet, for some people, this alone may insufficient motivation to “go native.”
The fact that many of our native species are edible by people too provides an additional incentive for people to plant them in their yards and landscapes that might otherwise be insufficiently induced to do so for the ecological rationale alone.
Join Russ Cohen, expert forager and author of Wild Plants I Have Known…and Eaten, for a 60-minute slide show featuring at least two dozen species of native edible wild plants suitable for adding to your own landscape, or nibbling on as you encounter them in other locales. Keys to the identification of each species will be provided, along with edible portions, seasons of availability and preparation methods, along with guidelines for safe and environmentally responsible foraging. Russ will also include a few details regarding some native edible plants he has grown successfully from seed, and the partnerships he has made with conservation groups and others to add edible native plants to their landscapes.

Until his retirement in June of 2015, Russ Cohen’s “day job” was serving as the Rivers Advocate for the Massachusetts Department of Fish and Game’s Division of Ecological Restoration, where one of his areas of expertise was in riparian vegetation. Now Russ has more time to pursue his passionate avocation, which is connecting to nature via his taste buds, and assisting others in doing the same. Russ has a small nursery in Weston, MA where he grows/keeps more than 1,000 plants that he propagates from seed (some of which he collected himself), as well as obtains from other sources, such as the Native Plant Trust. He then partners with land trusts, cities and towns, schools and colleges, state and federal agencies, organic farms, tribal groups and others to plant plants from his nursery in appropriate places on their properties. Russ has initiated over two dozen such projects in the past five years.
Free for members; $10 suggested non-member registration. After the event, you’ll receive a recorded copy of the talk.
Click here to register.

"Poppies, Peacocks and Parterres—Gardens of Scotland" with Nancy Stevens (Virtual)
2023-03-16 19:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | Online Meeting
From 17th century Renaissance parterres to a garden of cosmic speculation, gardener and author Nancy Stevens will fill us in on gardens from the likes of General Eisenhower and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and size up your garden wall status.
You’ll learn about everything, from a 17th century Renaissance parterres to a garden of cosmic speculation; from General Eisenhower’s “holiday home” to the garden where Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes acquired his extensive knowledge of poisonous plants. You’ll view an artist’s garden, an author’s garden, see where Clive met Louise & Henrietta, and learn what the size of your walled garden says about your social status.
After working in the corporate world of banking, commerce and industry as ICI, GEC, Nancy Stevens decided to switch careers and become a freelance journalist. This has been augmented by her lifelong passion for plants and gardens: 30 years of owning gardens of various shapes, sizes and topography, supplemented by garden visits, broadened by the written word and topped off by membership of an excellent gardening club; in her case, Baldernock Gardening Club, where she was chairman “for seven very enjoyable years.”
Free for members; $10 suggested donation for non-members. After the event, you’ll receive a recorded copy of the talk.
Click here to register.

Philadelphia Flower Show-March 8-10
2023-03-08 08:00 - 2023-03-10 17:00 UTC | CT
Spaces still open for the Philly Flower Show trip

Depart aboard a deluxe motor coach for three days, March 8-10, in the City of Brotherly Love, Philadelphia, PA. We’ll be stopping at the brand new Faith & Liberty Discovery Center, the Museum of the American Revolution, the Barnes Foundation, and of course, the 194th Pennsylvania Horticulture Society’s Philadelphia Flower Show, back to its indoor space! John Bartram, botanist, horticulturalist and explorer, will join us for dinner one night. The costumed impersonator will share his stories, humor and horticultural history.
CT Hort member price: $879pp double / $1129pp single
Regular price: $929pp double / $1179pp single
Call Barbara at Friendship Tours: 860-243-1630 or go to www.friendshiptours.net.

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Grafting Dwarf Conifers with Kevin Wilcox--March 4
2023-03-04 13:30 - 15:30 UTC | CT
CT Hort is delighted to present the workshop “Grafting Dwarf Conifers” with horticulturist Kevin Wilcox on Saturday, March 4 from 1:30-3:30 pm, at the Noah Webster House, 227 South Main Street, West Hartford. Register here!
Mr. Wilcox will teach participants how to successfully graft dwarf conifers, starting with a short slide presentation. Participants will prepare, cut and wrap the grafted conifer. Different conifer cultivars will be provided for people to graft, with selections from Oriental, Serbian, Norway and White spruces.
Attendees are welcome to bring selections of their own to try grafting (bring up to two year’s growth, not an entire large branch), and should bring a pair of hand pruners.
Kevin Wilcox is CT Hort’s resident horticulturist and has more than 30 years of experience in the field.
The workshop is limited to 20 people and costs $45. For more information and to register, click here.

March Board Meeting
2023-03-02 19:00 UTC | Online Meeting

A Visit to Chile Feb. 27-March 8
2023-02-27 08:00 - 17:00 UTC | CT
Experience the majesty and culture of Chile with Garden and Nature Tours with C. Colston Burrell, Friendship Tours, The Minnesota State Horticultural Society and Meme Larivière. Join us for an unforgettable autumnal journey of discovery to magnificent and varied landscapes, gracious private gardens, monumental public parks, museums, wineries and spectacular scenery. This unique South American nation is at once sophisticated, cosmopolitan and ruggedly wild.
Click here to see the brochure and register.

"New Perennials: A Love Story" with Deborah Chud (Virtual)
2023-02-16 19:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | Online Meeting
“New Perennials: A Love Story” is a personal introduction to the design principles of the New Perennialists, who gave rise to the hottest gardening trend in the world today—naturalistic landscaping. In the US, their influence can be seen in New York’s High Line, Chicago’s Lurie Garden, the Oudolf Meadow at Delaware Botanic Gardens, and Oudolf Garden Detroit. Deborah Chud’s six years of research on these gardens led to her own highly unusual New Perennial garden and the only known database of New Perennial plant combinations. Her talk is part memoir, part history, and part design theory–with some practical “dos and don’ts” for gardeners at every level.
Deborah Chud is a retired Massachusetts physician turned garden maker, consultant and educator. In the fall of 2020, she presented her work as part of “Piet Oudolf: How Does He Do It?”–an international event organized by Piet Oudolf’s co-author, Noel Kingsbury, under the aegis of gardenmasterclass.org. She has also presented to members of the following institutions and organizations: Massachusetts Horticultural Society, Harvard’s Arnold Arboretum, the United States Botanical Garden in Washington, D.C., the Ecological Landscape Alliance, the Northwest Perennial Alliance, Toronto Botanical Garden, and Delaware Botanic Gardens.

Free for members; $10 suggested donation for non-members. After the event, you’ll receive a recorded copy of the talk.
Click here to register.

February Board Meeting
2023-02-02 19:00 UTC | Online Meeting

"Designing with Native Plants" with James Dillon (Virtual)
2023-01-19 19:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | Online Meeting
James Dillon, landscape designer and horticulturalist, views landscape design as the integration of science, nature and art. He will show us how to meld all of that together with native plants to create a beautiful garden.
James Dillon, PCH is a Certified Horticulturist with over 20 years of experience working in the green industry. With a B.Sc. in Biology from East Carolina University, he views landscape design as the integration of science, nature and art.
He practiced horticulture in the northern Delaware area, most notably at the Delaware Center for Horticulture, with continuing education at Longwood Gardens. Previously, as manager and buyer of woody plants for a diversified garden center in Chambersburg, PA, James became familiar with a large palette of native plants and plant cultivars.
Native plant selection, environmental benefits, and low maintenance gardens are emphasized in many designs. James has designed several rain gardens and continues taking coursework on ecological landscape design. James enjoys volunteering for The Monarch Alliance (a PVAS program), designing Monarch waystation gardens for them, in Maryland and West Virginia.
Mr. Dillon owns and operates Native Havens LLC, a small landscape/gardening company based out of his home, where he’s an avid gardener in Kearneysville, WV.
The talk is free for members and $10 for non-members. For more information or for non-members to register, click here.

A Trip to Costa Rica: Gardens, Volcanoes and Waterfalls
2023-01-12 - 2023-01-22 | CT
Join Garden and Nature Tours with C. Colston Burrell, local guide Vernon Campos and Brett Isaacson of Friendship Tours in San Jose, Costa Rica to explore a tropical paradise for 10 nights/11 days.
Click through to Friendship Tours for all the info: https://www.friendshiptours.net/tours/costa-rica

January Board Meeting
2023-01-05 19:00 UTC | Online Meeting

Wreathmaking Workshop at Broken Arrow Nursery
2022-12-13 18:30 - 20:30 UTC | CT
Imagine: An evening by a warm fire in the teaching barn at Broken Arrow Nursery. An incredible selection of unusual, colorful evergreens and berry branches at your disposal. You will be given a 14″ wreath ring and will be guided by Mark Marenholz, wreath making expert, to make your own amazing mixed evergreen wreath. (A 14″ ring will make a wreath 20-22″ in outside diameter.) We can’t think of a better way to get into the holiday spirit. Sign up with a friend or two and make it a very special evening.
Broken Arrow Nursery is at 13 Broken Arrow Road in Hamden.
The cost to attend is $68. Space is limited to 14 people!
Click here to register.

SOLD OUT! Holiday Greens Workshop
2022-12-06 15:30 - 17:00 UTC | CT
CT Hort is thrilled to present a Holiday Greens Workshop at the Connecticut Flower Collective, 5 Cross Street, Meriden, on Tuesday, December 6 from 3:30 -5:00pm.
Create your own handmade wreath with locally harvested grapevines and fresh cut greens from the Connecticut Flower Collective. Learn to twist up a grapevine wreath and then make a mixed evergreen swag to decorate it. Nancy DuBrule-Clemente will be your teacher at the headquarters of the local flower movement in CT. Ribbons will be available at additional cost including exquisite botanically hand-dyed ribbons from Goldust Gardens.
The cost is $45 and we are limited to 12 people. Click here to register.
The workshop has sold out. Email office@cthort.org to be put on the waiting list.

A Longwood Gardens Christmas
2022-11-29 - 2022-12-01 | CT
Join us for a Longwood Gardens Christmas. From towering trees that touch the sky to acres of twinkling lights, a Longwood Christmas makes your holiday oh so merry & bright.
We will travel through Pennsylvania & Delaware, and will visit:

Longwood Gardens
Nemours Mansion
Winterthur Museum
Brandywine River Museum

"Shrubs, the New Perennial" with Lorraine Ballato
2022-11-17 19:30 UTC | Emanuel Synagogue, 160 Mohegan Drive, West Hartford, CT, 06117, United States
Shrubs are the new garden accessory! Lorraine Ballato, horticulturist, garden writer, and speaker, will discuss how shrubs now come in small sizes, just right to take the place of perennials in your borders and gardens, with little maintenance.
Shrubs now come in sizes from 12″ to 24″, just the right size to take the place of perennials in your borders and gardens. They dazzle with their foliage and flowers and require almost no maintenance.
Lorraine Ballato is a professional horticulturist who shares her knowledge through lectures, social media, and magazines. You can find her contributions in Connecticut Gardener, Edible Nutmeg, Coast of Maine, and more. She has been an instructor at the New York Botanical Garden for more than 10 years and can be found on numerous gardening radio programs and podcasts.
Besides tending the Connecticut garden which Lorraine and her husband have created (including many plants under trial conditions), Lorraine’s organic home garden includes seasonal vegetables, her beloved hydrangeas and all manner of ornamentals, which have informed her writing, lectures, and radio guest spots.
When she is not in her own garden, Lorraine volunteers her time to the Fairfield County Master Gardener Organic Vegetable Demonstration Garden in Bethel, CT. There, she works with a team of Master Gardeners and interns, teaching the public about growing vegetables organically. Their combined efforts result in annual food bank contributions of more than 1000 pounds.

Lorraine’s latest book is the best-selling Success With Hydrangeas, A Gardener’s Guide. Prior to that, she published Successful Self Watering Containers: Converting Your Favorite Container to a Self-Waterer.
The talk is free for members and $10 for non-members. After the event, you’ll receive a recorded copy of the talk. For more information or for non-members to register, click here.

November Board Meeting
2022-11-03 19:00 UTC | Online Meeting

“Stone in the Garden” with Andrew Pighills
2022-10-20 19:30 UTC | Emanuel Synagogue, 160 Mohegan Drive, West Hartford, CT, 06117, United States
Stone artisan Andrew Pighills will explore the myriad ways in which stone plays a part in the garden, how it defines garden areas, or paths, walkways and patios, and more, and which material is most suitable to creating contrast or harmony.
Born in Yorkshire, England, Andrew Pighills is an accomplished gardener, horticulturist and builder of dry stone walls. He received his formal horticulture training with The Royal Horticultural Society and has spent 30 years creating gardens and building dry stone walls in his native England in and around the Yorkshire Dales and the Lake District.
In 2001, Andrew moved to the United States where he and his wife, Michelle Becker, an accomplished artist, designer and gardener, have combined their complementary skills to form English Gardens and Landscaping, in Killingworth, CT. They distinguish themselves in designing and installing residential landscapes that draw inspiration from the enchanting settings and exuberant lushness of the traditional English “cottage” gardens that they know and love so well.
Andrew’s stone work has been featured in a programming series on traditional English construction methods on BBC television. More recently, Andrew’s work has been featured in The New York Times, Martha Stewart Radio, The New Haven Register, Yankee Magazine and numerous other publications. Andrew is a member of the prestigious Dry Stone Walling Association.
The talk is free for members and $10 for non-members. For more information or for non-members to register, click here.

October Board Meeting
2022-10-05 19:00 UTC | Online Meeting

Gardens of New York: Hudson Valley to Brooklyn
2022-09-28 - 2022-10-01 | CT
Come join us on this great trip through the Hudson Valley to Brooklyn! This trip will be escorted by Brett Isaacson and we will be joined by special guest, Jana Milbocker. Jana is a garden designer, speaker, and author of the Garden Tourist travel guides.

“A Bountiful Year: Six Seasons of Beauty from Brandywine Cottage” with David Culp
2022-09-15 19:30 UTC | Emanuel Synagogue, 160 Mohegan Drive, West Hartford, CT, 06117, United States
Connecticut Horticultural Society and New England Botanic Garden at Tower Hill are thrilled to be co-sponsoring David Culp, who will present “A Bountiful Year: Six Seasons of Beauty from Brandywine Cottage,” on September 15 at 7:30pm at Emanuel Synagogue (160 Mohegan Drive, West Hartford) and on Zoom. A Q&A follows the talk.
David Culp blurs the lines between indoor and outdoor living through his celebrated garden, Brandywine Cottage. In his talk, based on his most recent book of the same name, he offers recipes, a garden to-do list and tips on flower arrangements. He provides his favorite mail order sources and cover gardening for biodiversity and wildlife habitat, and discusses the creation of the meadow at Brandywine Cottage, plants for dry places. He even mentions some of his favorite weeds!
David Culp is the creator of the gardens at Brandywine Cottage in Downingtown, Pennsylvania. He has been lecturing about gardens nationwide for more than 15 years. His articles have appeared in Martha Stewart Living, Country Living, Fine Gardening, Green Scene, and many other publications. He is a former contributing editor to Horticulture magazine and served as chairman of the Mid-Atlantic Hardy Plant Society. He is an herbaceous perennials instructor at Longwood Gardens in Kennett Square, PA.
David has developed the Brandywine Hybrid strain of hellebores, and was recently cited in the Wall Street Journal for his expertise on snowdrops. Brandywine Cottage is listed in the Smithsonian Institution Archives of American Gardens. His best-selling 2013 book, The Layered Garden, was selected by Garden Writers Association as the 2013 Best Overall Book. He is a recipient of the Distinguished Garden Award from the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society in 1997 and 2016, and has also been awarded the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society Award of Merit.
The talk is free for members and $10 for non-members. Click here for non-member registration.
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A scene from David Culp’s Brandywine Cottage

September Board Meeting
2022-09-01 19:00 UTC | Online Meeting
