Garden Lectures Set for January, February

Just mainly because it really is winter season does not mean you cannot commence considering about gardening year! Be positive to examine out the Harry Allen Winter Lecture Collection coming up at Inexperienced Spring Gardens, 4603 Environmentally friendly Spring Street. Here’s all the details you are going to need:

When? Sundays in January and February | 1:30-2:30 p.m.

Price: $12 advance registration

Sign up for close friends of Eco-friendly Spring Gardens for this well-liked annual sequence of digital and in-person presentations by authors, backyard designers, scientists and other back garden fanatics on the cutting edge of horticulture.

Register on line at www.fairfaxcounty.gov/parks/parktakes or connect with Inexperienced Spring Gardens at 703-642-5173.

Virtual Winter Lecture – ‘Backyard Pollinator Oasis’

Jan. 15

Join pollinator pro Heather Andrews in this virtual discussion on how to generate a sustainable natural and organic oasis that will invite in an military of fantastic bugs to minimize pest pressure and enhance your veggie and fruit yield. A Zoom website link will be emailed prior to the program. Code H3T.564R

Wintertime Lecture – ‘Making Eco-friendly Spring Greener’

Jan. 22

Eco-friendly Spring Gardens web page supervisor Judy Zatsick and horticulturist Adam Bucher go over how the funds from the 2021 FROGS yearly appeal, “Making Eco-friendly Spring Greener,” had been made use of all over the website and will examine the remarkable new updates to the backyard garden coming in the slide. This program will be held in human being. Code EWI.P4MR

Wintertime Lecture – ‘Tropicals for Temperate Landscapes’

Jan. 29

Tropical and subtropical plants can generate unbelievable power and excitement in temperate landscapes and give solid design features through the hardest and best months of the expanding period. Working with 5 memorable groups from her new e-book “Tropical Vegetation and How to Enjoy Them,” Marianne Willburn will target on incorporating some magnificent examples in containers and beds—many of which are remarkably uncomplicated to overwinter. This plan will be held in human being. E-book signing after lecture. Code 8LN.YWHJ

Winter season Lecture – ‘A Background of Hedges’

Feb. 5

Take a look at the fascinating history of hedges, from rural hedgerows to typical back garden design characteristics with Green Spring Historian Debbie Waugh. Take into consideration their functional, ecological and decorative benefit and what they can notify us about the people who planted them. Watch amazing hedges from close to the planet and hear about Inexperienced Spring’s personal historic hedge. This program will be held in man or woman. Code RO5.FV0M

Virtual Winter season Lecture – ‘History of American Gardening’

Feb. 12

Sign up for celebrated landscape designer and winner of the 2021 Philadelphia Flower Show “Best in Show” Wambui Ippolito for a digital exploration of the historical past of American gardening by the lens of the immigrants who helped cultivate procedures and plant life that are nevertheless utilised nowadays. A Zoom hyperlink will be emailed prior to the plan. Code QXD.Z9Y3

Virtual Wintertime Lecture – ‘Stressless Gardening’

Feb. 19

Join landscape architect Preston Montague for a virtual dialogue on how to steer clear of widespread gardening techniques that trigger unnecessary pressure and lessen the ecosystem prospective of our landscapes. Learn strategies to retain gardening wholesome for us and the setting. A Zoom url will be emailed prior to the method. Code QIW.U0H2

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