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PLANTS FOR NORTH CAROLINA – This lecture with slides
recommends some of the best landscape plants that are sure
to thrive in the Old North State for new gardeners or newly
transplanted gardeners. Many of these plants will be old familiar
friends and a large number are native plants, but none will
be invasive or too difficult to grow successfully. |
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| WINTER
INTEREST IN THE LANDSCAPE - Your garden could delight the
senses all winter long with careful planning incorporating
evergreen foliage, welcome fragrance, jewel-tone berries,
captivating textures, and colorful wintertime flowers. This
popular lecture with inspiring slides will illustrate how
to enhance your garden's allure throughout the coldest months
while exploring various possibilities for extending the excitement
in your landscape from the first frosts of fall into late
spring. |
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| LET’S
MIX IT UP - MIXED BORDER DESIGN - A mixed border containing
deciduous and evergreen trees, ornamental grass, shrubs, vines
and decorative touches has distinct advantages over a simple
herbaceous planting bed. First, you can add year round excitement
introducing height, various textures, and colors that carry
your garden through the entire four seasons. Second, the woody
plants may cut some of the time and labor involved in caring
for a perennial bed. This lecture with slides demonstrates
ideas to carry back to embellish your own home landscape's
mixed borders. |
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PLANTS
OF THE BIBLE - Many of the plants mentioned in the Old and
New Testament are surprisingly hardy and completely suitable
to be grown in our public and private Southeastern landscapes.
This entertaining interdenominational slide lecture full
of Biblical references, art, history and folklore is frequently
requested by social and religious groups desiring a deeper
understanding of the plants of the scriptures or for planning
a Biblical garden of their own.
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| GARDENING
AND SPIRITUALITY - This lecture with slides will explore 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! |
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FINE
VINES - Vines and climbers add height, flower, and foliage
interest in the landscape in a unique way, by traveling
vertically. This lifts the eye, frames entrances, softens
edges, and enhances plain buildings. This slide lecture
will encourage you to embellish your own "de-vine"
garden.
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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.
We can create more than a predictable garden containing
only hostas, however, by designing a dynamic landscape over-flowing
with complementing textures and colors, including a myriad
of exciting plant combinations to enhance these darkest
areas. This informative slide lecture will show you how.
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| MOVING
THROUGH THE LANDSCAPE - Movement through and around the landscape
is dictated by the paths and passageways, barriers and borders,
objects of interest, outstanding specimen plants, water features,
etc. that together create unforgettable garden rooms. This
slide lecture will show you how to incorporate some of these
tricks of landscape design to help your garden flow. |
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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. |
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SMALL
SPACES GARDEN DESIGN - So you have a tiny lot to landscape.
The first and foremost issue is privacy, and the second is
the challenge of effectively
designing your small garden to create the feeling of more
space. How are you going to accomplish either one? Don't despair.
This slide lecture will help you determine how to make the
most of your intimate landscape. |
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| WINTER
INTO SPRING – As the days warm and lengthen during spring,
drab winter landscapes give way to the riot of spring bulbs,
awakening grassy lawns, beloved small decorative trees, and
blooming shrubs. New shades of green, white, purple, pink
and gold burst onto the scene in our gardens. This is a time
of transition we anxiously anticipate all winter long, especially
after attending this slide lecture! |
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| 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. |
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| PRIVACY
BORDER DESIGN – In our ever shrinking landscapes we
are faced with the dilemma of screening for privacy. This
lecture with slides will show how to edit what should be covered
and what could be allowed to remain open to make your landscape
a garden oasis. We will take a look at different fences and
screening plants as well as focal points to draw the eye. |
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JAPANESE
GARDEN DESIGN – Beautiful slides illuminate this educational
lecture detailing the various nuances of Japanese garden
design. With photographs of famous gardens in Japan compared
to many American Japanese-style gardens, this talk covers
basic landscape principles as well as the historical and
spiritual influences that helped create one of the most
peaceful and recognizable landscaping styles in the world.
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| LOVE PLANTS
– Throughout history man has used a surprising number
of plants to induce or enhance love. This fun talk with slides
looks at the erogenous stimulants and relaxants we call aphrodisiacs,
and find that a number of them are still commonly found in
our diet today. Chocolate anyone? A great slide lecture for
Valentine’s Day events. |
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| WITCHES
AND HERBS – This historical look into the legend and
lore of witches and the plants that they were associated with
is a fun talk with very entertaining slides. A perfectly bewitching
topic for an herb society to present around Halloween. |
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| PLANTS
OF CHRISTMAS – Many plants have beautiful legends and
lore associating them with the stories of the Advent and other
winter holidays. This look at the plants we use and remember
from holidays past through slides and lecture is great topic
for winter time meetings and banquets. |
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Current
Lecture Schedule
Date |
Event/Venue |
| Monday, October
13th - Saturday, October 18th, 2008 |
Garden
Discovery Tours, New England Fall Tour, Pittsfield, Massachusetts
(For Tour Information and Regisration details, click HERE.) |
| Saturday,
November 8th, 2008, 1-4pm |
"Garden
Writing Workshop", Chatham
County Arts Council Writer's Series, at Chatham County
Community College, Pittsboro, NC |
| Tuesday,
November 18th, 2008, 7pm |
"Let's
Mix It Up", Johnston
County Community College Gardens Lecture Series, JCC,
Smithfield, NC |
| Thursday, November
20th, 2008 |
Master
Gardener Group of Gaston County, Dallas, NC |
| Tuesday,
December 9th, 2008, 1pm |
Topic
to be determined. Encore,
NCSU, McKimmon Center, Raleigh, NC |
| Wednesday,
January 7th, 2009 |
Luncheon,
"Winter into Spring", The
Raleigh Garden Club, NC State University Club, Raleigh,
NC |
| Wednesday,
January 14th, 2009 |
Topic
to be determined. Greenville
Master Gardeners, Greenville, SC |
| Thursday,
February 12th, 2009, 10am |
Topic
to be determined. Carteret Master Gardeners, Beaufort, NC |
| Tuesday,
February 17th, 2009, 7pm |
"Winter
into Spring", Gardeners
of Wake County, J C Raulston Arboretum, Raleigh, NC |
| Thursday,
February 19th, 2009, 9am |
"Landscape
Design", Wake County Master Gardener Training, Wake County
Office Park, Raleigh, NC |
| Tuesday,
March 17th, 2009 |
"Best
Garden Plants for North Carolina", Concord Civic Garden
Council Garden Symposium, Concord, NC |
| Saturday,
March 21st, 2009, 9:30am |
"Small
Space Design", Piedmont
Chapter of the North American Rock Garden Society, NCBG,Totten
Center, Chapel Hill, NC |
| Saturday,
April 25th, 2009 |
Topic
to be determined. Carolina
Gardener Symposium, Raleigh, NC |
| Monday,
July 20th, 2009, 7pm |
"Herbs",
West
Regional Library, Apex, NC |
For speaking
engagements, see the Speaker Introduction
(Doc).
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