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Happenings January 2023

SELECTED EVENTS AROUND THE COUNTRY:

Jan 5-6 Design Symposium, Bryn Mawr, PA
"Landscape, Ecology, & Culture," 34th Annual NDAL Symposium

Jan 8, "Monarchs: Masters of Migration," ONLINE or New Hope, PA
2pm, Lecture, Bowman's Hill Wildflower Preserve
Jan 11-13, MANTS, Baltimore, MD
Mid-Atlantic Trade Show, Baltimore Convention Center
Jan 12-13, Design Symposium, New London, CT
"Landscape, Ecology & Culture," 34th Annual NDAL Symposium
Jan 12, "Small Space Gardener," Garden Conservancy ONLINE
2pm Eastern, Lecture, UK Designer Jason Williams

Jan 13-15, Maricopa County Home & Garden Show, Phoenix, AZ
Arizona State Fairgrounds
Jan 13-15, Tamiami International Orchid Show, Miami, FL
Jan 17, "Holistic Design Thinking," ONLINE
1pm-2pm, Lecture, LA David Maynes, NY Botanical Garden

Jan 26, 11am "Saving the Planet with Design," Bronx, NY
11am, Lecture, LA Kona Gray, NY Botanical Garden
Jan 26, Designer Lily Kwong, ONLINE
2pm Eastern, Lecture, Garden Conservancy
Jan 28-March 12, Orchids Forever, Cleveland, OH
Annual Orchid Show, Cleveland Botanical Garden
Jan 30-31, Plant-O-Rama, Brooklyn, NY
Annual Metro-NY Trade Show, Lectures & More, Brooklyn Botanic Garden

Lookahead:

Feb 22-23, Ecological Landscape Alliance Winter Conference,

March 4-12, Philadelphia Flower Show, Philadelphia, PA
PA Convention Center, "The Garden Electric"

April 27-30. Colonial Williamsburg Garden Symposium. Williamsburg, VA
"Digging the Garden," 76th Annual Symposium.

May 23-27, Chelsea Flower Show, London, UK

Merry Christmas, Happy New Year

Rosa 'Peace'

Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and Happy New Year
from Garden Design Online

The Peace Rose was bred in France by Meilland International in 1942, and it has long been associated with the end of World War II.

It was named the day that Berlin fell to the Allies, and won honors from All-America Rose Selections on the day that a peace agreement was signed with Japan.  That same day, members of the United Nations were presented with its blooms.

'Peace' is a hybrid tea about four to six feet high, three feet wide; pale golden blooms with pink edges, and a strong fragrance. Zone 6 and higher.  Requires winter protection if the wind chill factor drops below 20 degrees F.  A wonderful rose, well worth growing. Available from Jackson & Perkins.

Garden Design Online will return in late December with January Happenings.

(image: Jackson & Perkins)

Books: Farrand Update, Indoor Plants, Climate Change

Author Judith Tankard has updated her authoritative book on the life and works of Beatrix Farrand, a founding member of the American Society of Landscape Architects and the first female landscape architect in the United States. In Beatrix Farrand: Garden Artist, Landscape Architect (Monacelli Press, 2022), Tankard provides updates on Farrand's last residence and now home to the Beatrix Farrand Society, Garland Farm in Maine; current efforts to restore Dumbarton Oaks Park in Washington DC; and the preservation of the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Garden in Maine.  The book also includes updated images of many of the gardens, and watercolor wash renderings of Farrand's designs.  If you don't have the original volume, you will definitely want this one.

 

I've never been a great fan of houseplants, mainly because I can't seem to ever persuade them to live.  However, a couple of friends gifted some to me during the pandemic, and miraculously, they are still flourishing.  My appetite has been whetted by The Houseplant Guru, Lisa Eldred Steinkopf, in her latest book, Bloom, The Secrets of Growing Houseplants Year-Round (Cool Springs Press, 2022).  Steinkopf profiles more than 40 houseplants that are easy to grow, if you know what you're doing.  Each plant is described in detail, along with tips on how to coax them into bloom, watering instructions, and where they should be placed: east, west, south or north windows.  She also lets you know whether the plants and their parts are toxic to pets or humans. I can't try a gardenia, because I don't have a west or south window, but my Christmas Cactus is covered with blooms, and I hope to see my moth orchid back in bloom this spring.  This is the book you want if you want some greenery and blooms inside.

 

I think all of us who like to garden are dealing now, at times, with extreme weather events we've never experienced in the past.  But in The Climate Change Garden (Cool Springs Press, 2022), botanist Sally Morgan and author Kim Stoddart provide valuable advice on practical ways to deal with too much heat, wind, rain, snow and frost.  They show the reader how to select trees, shrubs, vegetables and perennials that are best suited to withstand weather extremes; how to manage storm water runoff and deal with heat islands; how to reduce the carbon footprint in the garden; how to take advantage of microclimates and adapt your garden techniques for the new climate future.  As the authors say in the introduction, "...gardeners themselves feel the stress as they try desperately to keep up with whatever is coming next.  Building resilience to our changing climate and shoring up our whatever-the-weather defenses is key."