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Speaking of Gardening…
One of the hallmarks of the Connecticut Horticultural Society is the great line-up of speakers appearing at our monthly meetings. Gardeners are always on the lookout for promising new plants and new ideas, and our speakers provide new directions for finding  both. Meetings are held the third Thursday of the month at 7:30 p.m. at Emanuel Synagogue, 160 Mohegan Drive, West Hartford. Members attend for free; guests and visitors are requested to pay $10. It’s never too early to mark your calendar.
Our year begins Sept. 16, when Julie Moir Messervy an internationally acclaimed garden book author and garden designer—who with cellist Yo-Yo Ma created the amazing, one-of-a-kind Sound Garden—will share ideas for integrating house and garden and for filling your outdoor spaces with gardens rich in personal resonance.
Oct. 21 brings Bill Cullina, curator of the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens, who will get to the root of the matter with his talk on understanding perennials and offer a new way to think about plants that makes it easier to understand what it takes to have them thrive in your garden.
Gardening author Lee May of East Haddam regales us Nov. 18 with tales of the challenges and rewards of gardening in the North versus the South.
The new year kicks off Jan. 21 with Michele Owens, of Saratoga Springs, N.Y., cofounder of and writer for “Garden Rant,” a top-rated garden blog. Following on Feb. 17 will be Stefan Cover, a biologist at Harvard University’s Museum of Comparative Zoology, who will help bring on spring as he identifies some magnolias for Connecticut gardens.
The face and voice of gardening, Charlie Nardozzi, spokesman and horticulturalist for the National Gardening Association, talks to us on March 17 about edible landscaping. April 21 features Doug Tallamy, author of “Bringing Nature Home: How You Can Sustain Wildlife with Native Plants,” the innovative guide to creating gardens that help restore the complex ecological web that surrounds us all.
May 19 speaker Adam Wheeler, manager of plant propagation at Broken Arrow Nursery in Hamden, Conn., where he also buys and develops new plants, will talk about “Oddball Plants for Oddball People.” And for our family night June 16, Kirk Brown will appear as America’s first famed botanist and gardener John Bartram, a living history performance he has presented at the Smithsonian and other esteemed venues.
Below is a calendar that includes speaker topics, as well as additional CHS 2010-11 events.

CONNECTICUT HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY
2010-2011 PROGRAM CALENDAR
(Contact Information:  CHS Office (860) 529-8713 or connhort@aol.com)

September

9-16-10            Julie Moir Messervy (Saxtons River, VT), Home Outside:  Creating the Landscape You Love -Directions

9/24/10 Fall Plant Auction, 7p.m., Tolland County Agricultural Center, 24 Hyde Avenue, Vernon, CT *

DIRECTIONS:

From I-84 eastbound, take exit  67. Go left off the exit. At the first
traffic light, turn right onto Route 30 (Hyde Avenue). Tolland County
Agricultural Center is on the right, just past Rockville Bank.

From I-84 westbound, take exit 67. Go right off the exit and follow the
directions above.

October

10-21-10          Bill Cullina (Southport Island, ME), Understanding Perennials - Directions

November

11-18-10          Lee May (East Haddam, CT), Life Lessons from the South, North and My Father- Directions

December

12/10/10 Potluck Dinner and Members Slide Show- Keeney Center, 200 Main Street,Wethersfield 6:00 PM

January

1-20-11            Michele Owens (Saratoga Springs, NY), Our Strange Relationship with the Soil- Directions

February: 

2-17-11            Stefan Cover (Cambridge, MA), Great New Magnolias for New England Gardens- Directions

2/24 to 2/27/11  The Connecticut Flower and Garden Show  at the Connecticut Convention Center, Hartford CT

March:    

3-17-11           Charlie Nardozzi (Shelburne, VT), Edible Landscaping- Directions

April

4-21-11            Doug Tallamy (Oxford, PA), Bringing Nature Home:  How Native Plants Sustain Wildlife in Our Gardens- Directions

4/29/11 Spring Plant Auction, 7p.m., United Methodist Church, 1358 New Britain Ave., West Hartford *

May

 5-19-11            Adam Wheeler (Morris, CT), Plant Geeks Are Us:  Oddball Plants for Oddball People- Directions

June

6-16-11            Kirk R. Brown (Orefield, PA), John Bartram, the King’s Gardener- Directions

* Members are encouraged to donate extra plants, seeds, or garden items to the auctions.  Proceeds go toward the CHS Scholarship Fund.

Directions to Emanuel Synagogue—160 Mohegan Dr., West Hartford.  From I-84 take Exit 43 (West Hartford Center, Park Road). Turn right at exit and go half a block to next light.  Turn left onto Trout Brook Dr. Proceed for six lights. Turn right on Albany Ave.  Go to the next light, Mohegan Dr., and turn left.  Pass two stop signs.  Synagogue is on the right.   Parking in the rear of the building.

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