Grow Your Best Garden: Home Gardener Workshop Series
April 20, 2016 @ 6:00PM — November 16, 2016 @ 10:00PM Eastern Time (US & Canada)
The Grow Your Best Garden: Horticultural Workshop Series is for the home gardener who wants to learn the latest environmentally-friendly techniques and tools to create beautiful, wildlife friendly ornamental gardens. City Green's Director of Horticulture, Emil Rostello will guide and inspire in this facinating series of workshops that will give you the practical know-how to growing your best garden yet! Light refreshments will be served.
DEER RESISTANT PLANTS AND PLANTING DESIGN - Is Bambi devouring your garden?
Agroup of white tailed deer is a beautiful sight as they pass through the garden. Unfortunately, due to their burgeoning population, they are no longer just passing through. Many deer populations call our suburban areas home and they are calling your ornamental plantings and gardens dinner. This program will offer plant suggestions and design strategies to help you keep a beautiful garden and landscape amidst the deer. All are welcome and will benefit from the insights provided, from the casual home gardener to the professional landscape designer.
Wednesday, April 20, 2015 6:00pm
NATIVE PLANTS FOR YOUR ORNAMENTAL GARDEN
The list of benefits derived from planting species of plants and ornamental grasses that are native to this area is long and compelling. They have adapted to this climate over time and are often hardier and more disease resistant than plants from other parts of the globe. These adaptations lead to less maintenance and chemicals to keep them looking great. They have also coexisted with the insect's native to this region and provide larval host to many of these beneficial insects we love to see in our gardens. And in addition to these other benefits, many of these native plants are absolutely stunning! This program will discuss the many regionally native plants that are worthy of a spot in our ornamental gardens.
Wednesday, May 18th, 2015 6:00pm
TOUGH PLANTS FOR UNUSUAL SITUATIONS
The perfect planting site; sunny, well-drained, rich loamy soil, sheltered from harsh winds, we all have that right? In reality, not so much. This program will take a look at some of the unconventional situations we face in our gardens and yards and how to "green" them. Plants that can handle the tough spots and thrive, plants for shady locations, plants for wet locations and plants for those just plain weird spots that we find in our gardens that leave us scratching our heads. Let's get together and think outside of the horticultural box.
Wednesday, June 15th, 2015 6:00pm
THE EDIBLE LANDSCAPE
Are you under the impression that your vegetables and other food producing plants need to be hemmed in with chicken wire and not allowed to co-mingle with other plants in the garden? Have you always wanted to grow your own fresh vegetables but felt like the traditional utilitarian garden plot doesn't fit into your residential landscape layout? If this is the case, then this program is for you. In this program we will discuss creative ways to get some edibles into your landscape. From veggies in containers and small ornamental fruit trees to other creative ways to get fresh edibles growing in your yard, we will cover it all. And you will be pleasantly surprised just how beautiful some vegetables can be in the garden.
Wednesday, July 20th, 2015 6:00pm
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