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Natureworks’s own Nancy DuBrule-Clemente is offering a pruning workshop that focuses on summer and fall blooming plants that bloom on current year’s wood. These are the plants that are pruned in April. The workshop will also be discussing pruning on all types of hydrangea. Shrub Pruning Made Easy – How and What to Prune in […]

UConn Extension and CT DEEP Wildlife Division have released an updated list of CT businesses that grow and/or sell native trees and shrubs—and for the first time, PERENNIALS are now included! Compiled from a survey of both wholesale and retail businesses, the Connecticut Native Tree, Shrub, and Perennial Availability List (s.uconn.edu/ctnativeavailability) identifies nurseries and garden centers that sell CT

The Natureworks design team will be digging in to creative solutions for resilient gardens for our changing climate here in Connecticut. Be inspired to reduce your lawn and create an organic, ecologically balanced habitat in your own yard. Learn how to design and choose plants that work for different conditions, and make a happy habitat for all.

CT NOFA is offering microscopy training this year. Participants will view various soils and composts, looking at the different soil structures and the microbes that thrive in healthy soil. Demonstrations include how to prepare a slide for viewing, what you might find, and how to evaluate your findings. Course cost includes a microscope (yours to

Hill-stead Museum is offering two workshops to spice up your garden. Discover the artistry of garden design in an engaging two-part series led by renowned expert Pat Sobosik! Delve into the fundamentals of garden design and explore the allure of various garden styles. In Principles of Garden Design, the first workshop on Friday, March 8

The Farmington Garden Club presents “Curb Appeal for Pollinator Gardens” featuring Nancy DuBrule-Clemente on March 18 at the Farmington Main Library at 6 Monteith Drive in Farmington. Everyone is planting pollinator gardens. They contain such valuable native plants that bees, butterflies, and all sorts of creatures need. But, they can look a bit messy. In this

New Directions in the American Landscape (NDAL) is offering a series of programs in March and April called “Ecology-based Landscape Design & Gardening.” The group of presenters will include Landscape Designer and Regional Planner Evan Abramson, Cornell Botanic Gardens Gardener Krissy Boys, Garden Designer and Wood Thrush Native Nursery Owner Ian Caton, Landscape Designer and

The UConn ASLA (American Society of Landscape Architects) club is working hard to raise funds to send the senior class to LaBash (a landscape architecture conference for students, by students, this year at UC Davis March 28-30). The students are hosting an event at Elicit Brewing Co. in Manchester, CT on March 4 (from 5-8 p.m.) as a networking event for

It’s a two-fer at Bartlett, with the event “Plant Yourself at the Bartlett: Power Yoga and Seed Planting” on Sat., March from 11am-12:30pm.This one-of-a-kind event will combine a 60-minute Power Vinyasa Yoga journey followed by a grounding, meditative seed-planting activity, where you will get your hands dirty and plant various culinary herbs from seed. The

Hori Hori? Cultivator? Snips or shears? In this workshop, Toni Simonetti will discuss what tools are necessary, how to use them, and properly care for them. Bring your tools and they will teach you how to sharpen them! Toni Simonetti, Certified UCONN Master Gardener, is a lead greenhouse volunteer at the Bartlett, where she propagates