Future Speakers
Thursday May 13: Speaker Sydney Eddison of Newtown, Conn. Changes: The Passage of Time in the Garden
Sydney is a nationally recognized gardener, author and speaker whose garden has been featured in magazines and on television shows, including “Martha Stewart Living” and “The Victory Garden.” To her writing and wildly popular lectures, she brings the joy, enthusiasm and experience of a life-long gardener.
Her seventh gardening book is a memoir, “Gardening for a Lifetime: How to Garden Wiser As You Grow Older” (Timber Press), due out in April 2010. The publisher on its Web site writes:
“The garden has been an everyday part of Sydney Eddison's life for over forty years. It has witnessed the changing of seasons, her greatest joys, and her deepest sorrows. The garden and the gardener have aged and changed together. ‘Gardening for a Lifetime’ is a touching memoir about having to scale back after widowhood and painful joints made it impossible to keep up with a large country garden. Intermixing personal experience with practical gardening tips, Eddison has written an encouraging road map for accepting and embracing a new and simpler way of gardening.”
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Thursday, June 17: Speaker Christine Cook of Easton, Conn. A Dragon’s Lair, Creating Dragonfly Habitat
Christine Cook owns Mossaics, an ecological landscape design company that specializes in moss garden design, wildlife habitat restoration and contemplative gardens. For years she has been helping people establish ponds and native-plant, butterfly and dragonfly gardens. Her work reflects an understanding of natural systems, and with each project her company seeks to cultivate a sense of wonder.
Christine says having a sense of wonder is a prerequisite to attending her lecture at CHS on how to create a dragonfly’s lair. She’ll touch on dragonfly habitats, life cycle, foraging, mating and ovipositing. What grasses will attract the leafhopper that will call a dragonfly down from its perch? What dragonfly will call down a tree swallow? Come and find out!
An artist and lecturer, Christine earned a bachelor’s degree in fine arts from the Maryland Institute College of Art and certificates in gardening, commercial horticulture and landscape design from the New York Botanical Garden. She is certified by the Association of Professional Landscape Designers and accredited by the Northeast Organic Farming Association.