March 21-22
Quail Botanical Gardens' Annual Herb Festival, Tomatomania and Spring Plant Sale will be even more spectacular in 2009 with the addition of the first ever EcoDesign Fair. For more information about Quail Botanical Garden's Herb Festival, Spring Plant Sale, Tomatomania and EcoDesign Fair, please call (760) 436-3036.
March 28-29, 2009
The Santa
Barbara Botanic Garden is pleased to announce that Director of Nursery and
Horticultural Outreach, Carol Bornstein, will present at a two-day symposium
titled "Growing Natives: Celebrating California's Beauty in Dry
Times".
Creating beautiful water-wise gardens with California native plants is the theme of
this special program aimed at professionals, home gardeners, and native plant
enthusiasts. The Saturday program at the Lafayette
Community Center includes Bornstein's
presentation on California
native plant garden design, as well as presentations by Glenn Keator, Phil Van
Soelen, Roger Raiche, David Amme, and Mike Evans.
The symposium is organized by Friends of Regional Parks Botanic Garden,
California Native Plant Society, and Pacific Horticulture.
Registration opens January 1, 2009. Members and subscribers of the
sponsoring organizations receive a discount on registration fees. Early
registration is recommended because space is limited. For more information, visit www.nativeplants.org or call Margo Scheffner at
510-849-1627.
April 23, 2009
Healing
Gardens Seminar Focuses on Healthy Aging Through
a Connection with Nature--Healing Gardens: The Power and Practice of Nature in
Senior Communities will be held on Thursday, April 23 at Medford
Leas Continuing Care Retirement Community in Medford, New Jersey. The seminar is geared toward landscape architects, designers, master planning
firms, assisted living facility managers, continuing care retirement community
administrators, horticultural therapists and other related fields. It is
co-sponsored by the Morris Arboretum of the University of Pennsylvania
and Medford Leas, a Quaker-directed, not-for-profit community for older
adults. The focus of the seminar points to the positive effects of engaging
older adults in horticultural activities, therapeutic gardens, and sensitively
designed landscapes in fostering a sense of well-being, promoting healing and
enriching the lives of retirement community residents.The
cost for the day-long seminar is $125, if received by April 15, with a student
rate of $65. The fee includes continental breakfast and lunch. Six
continuing education units are available for landscape architects in both PA
and NJ. For a complete brochure please contact 215-247-5777, ext. 125 or
156, or e-mail jlm@pobox.upenn.edu or
go to www.medfordleas.org.
April 28-29, 2009
No Child Left Inside: Restoring Nature to Early Childhood
Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden
Join the national dialogue about the critical relationship between direct exposure to nature and healthy childhood development. Learn about the physical, cognitive, emotional, social, and creative assets that young children gain through outdoor experiences, and how direct, authentic experiences in nature can be created for children wherever they live, play, and learn.
This symposium is for everyone concerned about the healthy development of today's children, including early childhood professionals, teachers and administrators, recreation leaders, pediatric healthcare providers, parents and caregivers, urban planners, environmental educators, architects, landscape architects and designers.
The cost for the full-day program is $25 and includes lunch; advance registration is required. For more details or to register, call (804) 262-9887, ext. 322 or visit www.lewisginter.org
May 1, 2009
Friday, May 1st at 6 p.m. Saturday, May 2nd from 10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
The Florida Department of Environmental Protection's Alfred B. Maclay Gardens State Park invites you to attend the 15th Annual Tour of Gardens. The event will start on Friday, May 1st, at 6:00 p.m. with speaker Norman Winter at the Timberlane Church of Christ followed by a reception at the Gardener's Cottage at Maclay Gardens to include heavy hors d' oeuvres, music and a book sale. Saturday, May 2, will start with a Continental Breakfast at the Maclay Gardens Visitor Center at 9:00 a.m. There will also be a silent auction, plant and book sale. The private gardens will open for tours at 10:00 a.m. and welcome visitors until 5:00 p.m. A map and directions to drive to the private gardens will be distributed at the breakfast. Ticket holders may choose whatever sequence they prefer and tour at their own pace.
Fees: Park entrance fees waived to participants. Tickets are available for $45.00 and include the speaker, reception, breakfast and tour.
Contact: (850) 487-4115
May 16, 2009
Annual Butterfly Plant Sale
Butterfly gardeners will be able to start their gardens
three weeks earlier in 2009. The staff at Texas
Discovery Gardens
at Fair Park has moved the annual Butterfly
Plant Sale to a new date: May 16, 2009 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. In addition to the earlier time frame,
Director of Horticulture Randy Johnson
will unveil new varieties of butterfly plants not previously available at Texas Discovery
Gardens: www.TexasDiscoveryGardens.org
May 20, 2009
7:30 p.m.
Life in the Treetops--Canopy Expert Gives Free Lecture at Atlanta Botanical Garden
Meg Lowman, known as
the queen of canopy research because of her pioneering research methods, will
discuss "It's a Jungle Up There: Adventures of a Woman in Field
Biology." The Philip and Elkin
Alston Lecture series is made possible by the support of the Charles Loridans
Foundation. A book signing will follow the lecture. For information, call
404-876-5859 or go to www.atlantabotanicalgarden.org
May 31, and June 7, 2009
Santa Fe Botanical Garden's upcoming Garden Tour is scheduled! The Garden
Tours are a sensational annual event quite popular around the US – In 2009,
both tours will showcase premier gardens in the historic neighborhoods of Old
Santa Fe. As tour goers stroll among the properties, they will experience
the ambience of the Acequia Madre and South Capitol neighborhoods, visiting
private gardens, large and small. As a special option on June 7, visitors will be able to purchase in advance a gourmet picnic lunch at
the historic Inn of the Turquoise Bear, which
also includes a tour of the inn and surrounding gardens. For details: www.santafebotanicalgarden.org or 505-471-9103
June 4-6, 2009
The Herb Society of America Presents "Shades of Herbal Green". The Herb Society of America's 76th Annual Educational Conference and Annual Meeting will be held in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The conference will feature Sharon Lovejoy, as the Keynote speaker. Sharon is an award-winning author and illustrator of books on nature and gardening. Those attending the conference may choose from three concurrent sessions each day. General session speakers will include, Jim Adams, head gardener with the British Embassy, Don Haynie, owner of Buffalo Springs Herb Farm and Dr. Norm Lownds, Associate Professor and curator at the Michigan State University 4-H Children's Garden. Pre-conference workshops and garden tours will be held at the world renowned Fredrick Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park. An additional pre-conference tour will view the magnificent Garden at Michigan State University. New to the conference is the "Festival of Flavor and Fragrance" an experiential afternoon in a festival atmosphere to examine herbs firsthand guided by herbal experts. Peruse eight special displays and demonstrations for an up-close-and-personal look at individual herbs and herbal preparations. Observe with your eyes, touch with your hands, smell with your nose, taste with your tongue and hear the excitement while you learn through participation and having fun. The "Festival of Flavor and Fragrance" is included in conference registration or you may purchase tickets just for the event. For more information www.herbsociety.org
If your garden has an event that you would like to share, please contact Madeline Quigley, Director of Marketing & Communications at 302-655-7100 ext. 17 or mquigley@publicgardens.org for more information.
