Flower Show Seminars

11:00 AM

At Play, with Nature: Snoozes & Celebrations on your Terrace - Don't we all love to be outside on a terrace, enjoying the warm-season weather? It's only simple for the first ten minutes, when a chair, some shade, and a patch of pavement are all you need. To really enjoy being outdoors for much longer takes planning and nuance.

Landscape designer Louis Raymond has been creating delicious, inviting terraces for over forty years. (For an introduction to his work, visit www.RGTerraces.com) In "At Play, with Nature" Louis explores the many ways that a terrace can be shaped into your property's must-use focus.

Louis Raymond

1:00 PM

Feeding a Village: Gardening of, by and for the People

Roger Swain

3:00 PM

Roses for New England is a special power point presentation based on Mike and Angelina Chute’s new book, Roses for New England: A Guide to Sustainable Rose Gardening. This program is a must for every rose-lover who wants to grow hardy, healthy, and disease resistant roses in their home gardens. It specifically addresses the merits and challenges of rose gardening in New England. A book signing will follow the program.

Mike Chute

11:00 PM

Landscaping By The Seat Of Your Pants - Paul is a visionary landscape designer, with an ability that truly has no limits. He has a unique blend of talent that merges a genius of plant material with an unparalleled ability to sculpt a landscape using the powerful machines that makes his creations possible. Each project derives from a fluid design that evolves as rock, soil, plant and tree meld with Miskovsky’s imagination and the contours of the landscape. His formal horticulture education is from UMASS Stockbridge, a 1984 graduate in Commercial Floriculture and his 26 years in business have given Miskovsky a substantial foundation on which to build his expertise.

Paul Miskovsky

1:00 PM

Home Outside: Creating the Landscape You Love - In this inspiring lecture, award-winning landscape designer and author Julie Moir Messervy demystifies the art and practice of landscape design for homeowners and professionals alike. Using beautiful images, together with helpful tips, case studies, befores and afters, diagrams, and plans, she walks you through the process of turning any property into the "home outside" you've always dreamed of. Julie highlights many of the ideas introduced in her newest book, Home Outside: Creating the Landscape You Love, illustrating that good landscape design does not have to be overwhelming or expensive.

Julie Moir Messervey

3:00 PM

Anita will conduct a hands on workshop on how to plant seeds, what mix they need, the best containers, transplanting, etc. She'll share her tricks and techniques from 15 years as an organic vegetable grower in CT.

Anita DaFonte

11:00 AM

Home Outside: Creating the Landscape You Love - In this inspiring lecture, award-winning landscape designer and author Julie Moir Messervy demystifies the art and practice of landscape design for homeowners and professionals alike. Using beautiful images, together with helpful tips, case studies, befores and afters, diagrams, and plans, she walks you through the process of turning any property into the "home outside" you've always dreamed of. Julie highlights many of the ideas introduced in her newest book, Home Outside: Creating the Landscape You Love, illustrating that good landscape design does not have to be overwhelming or expensive.

Julie Moir Messervey

1:00 PM

At Play, with Nature: Snoozes & Celebrations on your Terrace - Don't we all love to be outside on a terrace, enjoying the warm-season weather? It's only simple for the first ten minutes, when a chair, some shade, and a patch of pavement are all you need. To really enjoy being outdoors for much longer takes planning and nuance.

Landscape designer Louis Raymond has been creating delicious, inviting terraces for over forty years. (For an introduction to his work, visit www.RGTerraces.com) In "At Play, with Nature" Louis explores the many ways that a terrace can be shaped into your property's must-use focus.

Louis Raymond

3:00 PM

The Vegetable Gardener’s Bible - For the last ten years, The Vegetable Gardener’s Bible has been the go-to guide for home growers everywhere because of its authoritative yet accessible tone, beautiful photography, A-to-Z vegetable-specific information, and ahead-of-its-time commitment to organic growing methods. Now, Edward C. Smith is back to help the thousands of dedicated as well as new vegetable gardeners with a revised and updated edition of his now-classic best-seller.

Ed Smith

11:00 AM

Feeding a Village - Gardening of, by and for the People

Roger Swain

1:00 PM

Landscaping By The Seat Of Your Pants - Paul is a visionary landscape designer, with an ability that truly has no limits. He has a unique blend of talent that merges a genius of plant material with an unparalleled ability to sculpt a landscape using the powerful machines that makes his creations possible. Each project derives from a fluid design that evolves as rock, soil, plant and tree meld with Miskovsky’s imagination and the contours of the landscape. His formal horticulture education is from UMASS Stockbridge, a 1984 graduate in Commercial Floriculture and his 26 years in business have given Miskovsky a substantial foundation on which to build his expertise.

Paul Miskovsky

3:00 PM

Growing Lavender in New England - After 35 years of growing this fragrant herb Betsey-Ann Golon (alias Mrs. Greenjeans) will share her failures and successes, and a lot of pertinent information and tips. Betsey is the herbalist for the Shaker Community in New Gloucester, Maine and for the gardens at George Washington's Mt. Vernon Estate in Virginia. Attendees will leave with a gift of this soothing herb.

Betsy Ann Golon