[PCA] Sept 15-Gardeners Day with Paul Tukey and New England Wild Flower Society

[Debra Strick]

Dear Olivia,  
 
New England Wild Flower Society presents the Gardeners Day Festival event on Saturday,  September 15, 2007,  from 10-3 at Garden in the Woods in Framingham, Massachusetts. This promises to be a TOTAL FEAST for gardeners, environmentally-minded visitors, and a perfect fall day trip destination. Society staff lead a session on controlling invasive plants on your property, and Paul Tukey, famed publisher of People Places and Plants, discusses sustainable lawn care and signs his bestselling book, The Organic Lawn Care Manual.  Enjoy  demos and tours on the hour, thousands of plants for sale, the ART GOES WILD exhibit by W. Gary Smith, and 1,500 native plant species in the Garden in their early fall mode. 
 
Please consider sharing the message with all-and come say hi to me at the festival. 
 
(I will be out of the office Wednesday Sept 12 through Friday, Sept 14.  In my absence please contact Sarah Shonbrun at sshonbrun at newenglandWILD.org or x 3103 or Lisa Mattei at lmattei at newenglandWILD.org or x 3502.)
 
(Details below)
 
 
CONTACT:

Debra Strick, Marketing and PR Director

508.877.7630 x3501

dstrick at newenglandWILD.org

Images at lmattei at newenglandWILD.org

 

 

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

 

 

New England Wild Flower Society Premieres

the Gardeners Day Festival 

 

FRAMINGHAM, Mass. - September 15, 2007 - New England Wild Flower Society premieres a Gardeners Day Festival from 10-3.  Horticulture experts give talks on the hour for the gardening public. Bring your toughest gardening questions to the "Plant Doctor" with office hours throughout the day, and attend gardening mini-seminars, all included with the regular Garden admission fee for adults of $7.  Rain or shine, meet Paul Tukey, Laura Eisener, Greg Lowenberg and horticulture and plant conservation stars ready for "plant talk." Take a guided tour at 10 a.m. or 2 p.m. and walk the 11 destination gardens of the ART GOES WILD:  Innovation with Native Plants exhibit by W. Gary Smith at Garden in the Woods, honoring the Garden's 75th anniversary, throughout the day.  The Garden features 1,500 kinds of native plants on 45 acres, including 200 rare and endangered species.  View mature examples in the living museum, and select from 550 rare and unusual native varieties for sale at the Society's native plant nursery.  Take a guided tour and admire seasonal foliage, fruit, berries, and late season bloom. Glean a cornucopia of great ideas for design at the Idea Garden.  Fall is an ideal time to plant, and expert Society staff helps the public with custom choices of rare and unusual hardy varieties for the home garden.  Become a member of the Society at the Gardeners Day Festival and enter to win garden books hand-signed by the authors, and special plants.  All purchases and memberships support the health of New England's natural areas and the award-winning plant conservation programs of the New England Wild Flower Society.   Garden in the Woods, 180 Hemenway Road, Framingham, MA. 508.877.7630, www.newenglandWILD.org <http://www.newenglandwild.org/> .

 

It's Like a Symposium and Plant Festival Rolled into One.   The "Plant Doctor" is IN until 3 pm, no appointments required.  Attend garden and conservation talks from 10-3 on the hour.  At 10 a.m. New England Wild Flower Society Education Director Greg Lowenberg leads a demonstration of Plant Trees and Shrubs like a Pro.  At 11 am, learn about Sustainable Lawn Care from Paul Tukey, Publisher of People Places and Plants Magazine and author of The Organic Lawn Care Manual. At noon the Society's horticulture staff introduces fabulous selections with Best Native Plants for Fall Color. Meet Laura Eisener, also of People Places and Plants, at 1 pm when she reveals Best Native Bulbs for Your Garden. At 2 pm attend a demonstration of Controlling Invasive Plants on your Property and see the Conservation staff in action in a video presentation at the Education Center, From a Plant's Point of View. All programs are included with regular Garden admission. Visit the Museum Store for hand-signed copies of books by the speakers, and a terrific selection of garden books recommended by the Society.  

 

Garden GREENER: Learning more about native plants is a great way to create a greener and more sustainable lifestyle, and a more beautiful and dramatic garden.  Native plants are important for the health and biodiversity of critical habitat and wild spaces.  In the garden, wildflowers and native woody plants are uniquely beautiful, creating a "sense of place" for homeowners while providing food and shelter for wildlife.  Once established in the garden, native plants can require minimal resources because they are well adapted to tolerate normal regional conditions.  Selecting native plants avoids the use of invasive plant species in  home landscape that otherwise could escape and harm natural areas.  New England Wild Flower Society is the region's leading plant conservation organization, with more than 1,400 volunteers in the field helping to protect native flora. Find out more at www.newenglandWILD.org.  

 

 

Rare Plants for Superb Gardens   Select from wildflowers, ferns, shrubs, trees, and vines for every garden situation.  Bird's foot violet and Plymouth gentian are just a few of the choices, many available nowhere else.  Special featured plants include a robust group of easy-to-grow well-rooted woody plants including the magnificent bigleaf magnolia, and winterberry holly shrubs.  Native Andromeda shrubs are especially well-budded and ready to plant now for a lush and dramatic spring show next year.  Tour Garden in the Woods for design ideas and Inspiration from viewing mature plants in combination, and then share your questions about selections well suited to your own garden.  

 

 

Fun for Future Gardeners Too!   Bring the whole family to the festival and go on a scavenger hunt, walk the ART GOES WILD labyrinth, see flying saucer gardens and make a mini-dish garden at the Interactive Garden Park.  Select native plants attractive to birds and butterflies for young naturalists to observe backyard habitats throughout the seasons.  Visit the Museum Store for nature and garden-themed toys and books including "BUGOLOGY" by New England Wild Flower Society's Program Manager and Environmental Educator of the Year, Bonnie Drexler.  

 

 

Gardeners Day Festival includes talks, garden advice, tours, and the exhibit ART GOES WILD: Innovation with Native Plants by environmental artist and landscape architect, W. Gary Smith, celebrating the museum's 75th anniversary.  Hours:  Open daily, Sept. 1-October 31, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Admission; Adults $7; Seniors and Students with ID $5; Children and Youths (6-18yrs); $3, Members and Children under 6: Free. Guided tours at 10 am and 2 pm,  no reservations required. Exhibit and Gardeners Day Festival included 10-3, Rain or Shine, with regular garden admission. www.newenglandWILD.org. 

 

More about Paul Tukey Join America's 2006 Gardening Communicator of the Year, Paul Tukey, for a
lively discussion of the "dos" and "don'ts" of lawn care,followed by a book signing of his best-selling new release, The Organic Lawn Care Manual. Paul is on a national campaign to educate consumers about natural lawn-care alternatives, including organic fertilizers,weed killers, biological pest controls, water conservation and environmentally friendly turf grasses. Paul offers homeowners step-by-step guidelines to breaking the addiction to synthetic-basedlawn care, providing the basics of making the transition to an organiclawn, free of chemical pesticides and fertilizers, and the practical
reasons for doing so. Paul is well known to millions of Americans through his popular gardening program People, Places & Plants on HGTV and through his magazine of the same name. 




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