Upcoming Lectures and Classes

January 25th, 2011
Rhode Island Nursery and Landscape Association
Crowne Plaza Hotel, Warwick, RI
9:00 am Going Organic at Coastal Maine Botanical
Gardens
1:00 pm What the Heck's Gonna Grow There?!?:
Native Perennials for Challenging Locations
www.rinla.com

February 3rd, 2011
Senior College
Belfast, ME
1:00-3:00pm "Secrets of Maine Gardens"
(one of six sessions)
www.belfastseniorcollege.org

February 12th, 2011
Sarah P. Duke Gardens-Duke University
Durham. NC
9 a.m.-noon BEYOND THE SURFACE: Soil
Physics, Biology, And Chemistry Demystified
(workshop)
$70; $55 Gardens members. Call 668-1707
3-5 p.m. THE BOTANY OF DESIGN
$35; $30 Gardens members
www.hr.duke.edu/dukegardens

March 3rd, 2011
Ecological Landscape Association 2010
Conference & Eco-Marketplace
MassMutual Center, Springfield, MA
6:00 pm Keynote Panel: Native, Introduced, Invasive,
and Endangered Plants in the Landscape:
Untangling the Roots of the Problem (with Peter Del
Tredici, and Jono Neiger)
www.ecolandscaping.org/

March 10th, 2011
Bar Harbor Garden Club
Northeast harbor, ME
1:30 pm Understanding Perennials
www.barharborgardenclub.com

March 12, 2011
Berks Home Gardeners School
Berks Campus of Penn State University
8:30 - 9:30 am Keynote Address: Sugar, Sex &
Poison
9:45 - 11:00 am Understanding Perennials
http://berks.extension.psu.edu/


March 24th, 2011
Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens
Boothbay, ME
6:00 - 7:30 pm Understanding Orchids: Cultivating
Exotic Beauty at Home
www.mainegardens.org/calendar/understanding-orchi
ds-cultivating-exotic-beauty-at-home-with-bill-cullina


March 26th, 2011
Connecticut Master Gardeners Annual Symposium
Manchester Community College
Manchester, CT
3-4 pm Botany of Design
www.ctmga.org

April 2nd, 2011
Great Gardens and Landscape Symposium
Equinox Resort (www.equinoxresort.com) ,
Manchester, VT
9 am Botany of Design
1:45 pm Beyond Black-eyed Susan's and Border
Phlox
www.pyours.com/Symposium2011.html

April 14th, 2011
Northern District Garden Club Federation of MA
Annual Meeting
Andover, MA Country Club
~10:00 am subject TBA

April 16th, 2011
Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens
Boothbay, ME
10:00 am-12:30 pm Creating an Emerald Carpet:
Mosses in Your Maine Landscape
www.mainegardens.org/calendar/creating-an-emerald
-carpet-mosses-in-your-maine-landscape-with-bill-cull
ina

April 28th, 2011
Long Hill
Beverley, MA
10 am Woodland Wildflowers - Dancing Under a
Curtain of Trees
www.thetrustees.org/longhill

April 30th, 2011
Garden Club of America
Awards Dinner
Marriot Downtown, Indianapolis, IN
Sarah Chapman Francis Medal - Award
Acceptance

May 4th, 2011
New England Wild Flower Society/Arnold
Arboretum
Garden in the Woods, Framingham, MA
10 am - 3 pm Native Woody Plant Materials session 1
http://www.newenglandwild.org/learn

Grow Native Cambridge/Cambridge Science
Festival
Cambridge Public Library
Cambridge, MA
7pm Fifty Great Natives
www.grownativecambridge.org

May 10th, 2011
Cape Ann Garden Club
Cape Ann, MA
Details TBA

May 11th, 2011
New England Wild Flower Society/Arnold
Arboretum
Arnold Arboretum, Jamaica Plain, MA
10 am - 3 pm Native Woody Plant Materials session 2
http://www.newenglandwild.org/learn

June 4th, 2011
New England Wild Flower Society
Garden in the Woods, Framingham, MA
3 - 8 pm Macro Photography Workshop
http://www.newenglandwild.org/learn

June 17th, 2011
World Association of Flower Arrangers
World Flower Show 2011
Boston, MA
10 am subject TBA
www.wafausa.org


June 18th
North American Rock Garden Rock Garden
Society
NARGS 2011 Annual Meeting
Colby-Sawyer College
8:15 pm Cultivating the Alpine Flora of the
Northeast
http://fellschapter.wordpress.com/about


June 21- 25th, 2011
American Association of Public Gardens and
Arboreta
2011 APGA Revolutionary Conference
Philadelphia, PA
www.aabga.org

July 8th, 2011
CMBG Annual Symposium - Designing your
Signature Maine Landscape
Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens
Boothbay, ME
www.mainegardens.org

August 10th, 2011
David H. Smith Memorial Lecture
Polly Hill Arboretum
West Tisbury, MA
Unraveling and Re-raveling the Web of Life
www.pollyhillarboretum.org

October 11-14th, 2011
2011 International Master Gardener Conference
Charleston, WV
Wednesday Sugar, Sex and Poison: Shocking Plant
Secrets Caught on Camera
Thursday Beyond Black-eyed Susan's and Border
Phlox
http://imgc.ext.wvu.edu

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