Garden Lecture at Senior Center February 6
GARDENS DAZZLE WITH SPRING EPHEMERALS AND OTHER EARLY BLOOMERS
Are you ready to jump-start spring in your garden?
Looking for new plant suggestions and ideas on how to put them together in stunning combinations?
Joan Butler and Jana Milbocker of Enchanted Gardens will show you how to include early bulbs and native woodland wildflowers such as Bloodroot, Jeffersonia, Hepatica, and Trillium in your garden for a beautiful spring display. You will also learn about their habitats, ideal growing conditions and unique adaptations in a free lecture “Spring Ephemerals and Other Delights,” presented on Thursday, February 6 at 7:30 pm at the Holliston Senior Center, located at 150 Goulding Street, Holliston. Whether you are new to gardening or a seasoned collector, you will be inspired by unusual plants, design techniques and stunning photos of private and public gardens.
“We want to show everyone that there is more to a spring garden than crocuses and daffodils. Most people are not familiar with spring ephemerals – the native woodland wildflowers that bloom before the trees leaf out, set seed, and then become dormant. They have become the mainstay of my spring garden,” said Butler, whose Holliston garden has been on tour several times.
“You will be surprised at the number and sheer variety of our early spring bloomers: dozens of trillium varieties, hundreds of species tulips, more than 100 cultivars of hepatica. There are ample opportunities for collectors!” added Milbocker.
Butler and Milbocker are avid gardeners, plant collectors, garden designers and writers. They lecture on a variety of gardening topics to garden clubs and community education organizations and have recently appeared at Tower Hill Botanic Garden and at the Massachusetts Horticultural Society.
Past presidents of the Holliston Garden Club, both women are active in the Garden Club Federation of Mass. and other horticultural societies. Butler is the immediate past Chairman of the Massachusetts Landscape Design Council, an accredited Flower Show Judge, and a horticulturalist at Weston Nurseries. Currently, she is Chairman of the floral design Division I competition at the Boston Flower and Garden Show 2014 and 2015. Milbocker is owner of Enchanted Gardens, a boutique landscape design/construction firm in Holliston that creates welcoming, personal gardens for clients in the Boston area and Cape Cod. She writes gardening articles for the Holliston Reporter and Gatehouse Media, Inc., which are also available on her website blog at enchantedgardensdesign.com.
For more information about the program, please contact Enchanted Gardens Lectures at 508-494-8768, info@enchantedgardensdesign.com.
