CHANGE HOW YOU GARDEN -- It is time to reevaluate your landscape and your relationship with it. Let's plan for sustainable urban landscapes filled with healthy plants. It is time for realistic gardens that are maintainable, water wise, nature friendly, and food producing, created with a holistic approach. This lecture with slides is filled with practical suggestions to apply in your own outdoor habitat.

COMBINING PERENNIALS – This slide-driven lecture will illustrate colorful successful combinations of perennials for everything from sunny sites to shady niches. How to choose interesting plants for texture, color, and leaf shape will be covered as well as some hints for those personal touches that really make a garden.

FINE VINES – Various vines and climbers add height, flower, and foliage interest throughout the landscape in a unique way, by traveling vertically. Vines lift the eye, frame entrances, soften edges, and enhance ordinary buildings. This popular slide lecture will encourage you to climb to new heights while embellishing your own "de-vine" garden.

GARDENING AND SPIRITUALITY - This lecture with slides explores the interconnection between the garden as a place, and gardening as an act of faith and worship. Religions around the world depict paradise as a garden of various types, and enlightened souls as residents and caretakers of that garden. When we approach our personal gardens, large or small, with delight and expectation, the experience can transform "sweat equity" into "sweet ecstasy" within our own piece of heaven!

GOES WELL WITH HOSTAS - Shade gardening is one of our most challenging landscaping dilemmas. No wonder hardy large-leaved Hostas are the number one perennial for these difficult sites. By designing a dynamic landscape over-flowing with complementing textures and colors, including a myriad of exciting plant combinations to enhance these darkest areas, your shade garden will soon become your favorite. This informative slide lecture will show you how.

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PERSONALITY IN THE GARDEN - Attractive landscaping integrating your home's style into the site with appropriate plantings and colors is a goal for all of us, but often making your mark in the garden means adding those personal touches like sculpture, plaques, unique hardscaping, out buildings, and other flights of fancy. This slide lecture is sure to tickle your funny bone and encourage you to create an out-going garden.

PLANTS OF THE WINTER HOLIDAYS – Many plants have beautiful legends and lore associating them with the stories of the Advent and other winter holidays. This lecture give a fresh look at the plants we use today, and remember from holidays past, and is great topic for winter time meetings and banquets. Slide or material driven.