Horticulture
Spring Rose Care | Gardens for Pennies | Pruning
Orchids | Lots of Pots | Iris in the Garden
Hardy Fern Gardening
| March 15 |
Spring Rose Care Workshop
Section A: Saturday, March 15
10 a.m. – 12 noon FULL!
Section B: Saturday, March 15
1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Mike Tuszynski - Rosarian, Morris Arboretum
Are you confused about how to prune and care for your roses in early spring? Do stuffy lectures and dry books frustrate you with complicated descriptions? If so, this hands-on rose care class is for you. The class is being offered at the ideal time to prune roses so you can learn pruning techniques and then apply that knowledge in your own garden. Topics
include: pruning, planting, transplanting and fertilizing. There will also be an opportunity for participants to do hands-on rose pruning. This class will be an outside demonstration in the Arboretum's award winning rose garden, so bundle up, bring your hand pruners, and be prepared to experience spring rose care. Class size is limited so sign up today!
Raindate: Saturday, March 22
Members: $25
Non-members: $30
Call to register for classes (215) 247-5777 ext 156 or 125 |
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| March 18 |
Glorious Gardens for Pennies
Tuesday, March 18
7 – 9 p.m.
Art Wolk - Award-winning Author and Lecturer
You can have a backyard garden that’s just as glorious to your eyes as any famous public garden you’ve visited. And, you won’t have to empty your bank account to do it. In this humorous, informative, and impowering lecture, Art Wolk will show you how to use inexpensive techniques to produce a highimpact flower garden and high-yield vegetable garden. Using methods he’s learned and developed through thirty years of research and trial and error, he’ll show you penny-pinching
shortcuts to the garden of your dreams. Art’s lecture will not only include growing techniques, but the easy-to-understand essentials of flower garden design. Join us for an enlightening and fun-filled program that’s
sure to get your creative juices flowing.
Members: $25
Non-members: $30
Call to register for classes (215) 247-5777 ext 156 or 125 |
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| March 25 |
Pruning for the Homeowner
2 Days
Tuesday, March 25
7 – 9 p.m.
Saturday, March 29
10 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Iana Turner - Horticulturist, Morris Arboretum
Learn how you can skillfully prune shrubs and small trees to achieve a pleasing natural shape and abundant flowering. In this course you
will have the opportunity to see demonstrations designed to help you master pruning concepts and gain confidence. The course will cover
formative pruning for young trees and proper pruning practices for larger, older trees. It will also cover naturalistic pruning techniques for creating attractive hedges and methods for reducing overgrown shrubbery. Please bring hand pruners and a small pruning saw to the Saturday session. This class meets twice.
Members: $50
Non-members: $60
Call to register for classes (215) 247-5777 ext 156 or 125 |
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| April 17 |
Orchids: Fascinating Plants for Home or Greenhouse
Thursday, April 17
7 – 9 p.m.
Beth Davis - Waldor Orchids
Orchids are different but not difficult. Learn to grow exquisite orchids as houseplants. By applying the proper cultural techniques to vigorous orchid varieties, you can grow these exotic plants in your home or greenhouse and have them flourish. Beth will review orchid growing supplies, nutritional requirements, and pest and disease control. She will demonstrate how to pot a bare-root plant, and participants will then pot their own beautiful orchid to take home. Additional plants will be available for sale at the conclusion of the lecture. Beth is a third generation orchid grower. She has worked at the Waldor Orchids greenhouses in Linwood, New Jersey, for over 17 years doing many different jobs including orchid growing and lecturing.
Members: $43
Non-members: $48
Call to register for classes (215) 247-5777 ext 156 or 125 |
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| May 17 |
Lots of Pots: Creating Beautiful Containers
Saturday, May 17
10 a.m. – 12 noon
Ray Rogers - Author and Horticulturist
In this course Ray presents a fresh approach to container planting and design. He will do more than simply provide a finite number of “recipes” for specific planting combinations. Rather, he will take you on an engaging exploration into basic design principles including color, line, form, space, and texture as well as show you how to appreciate focal
points, exploit the potential of empty containers, and more. This is a two part course beginning with an illustrated lecture and ending with a container planting demonstration.
Members: $25
Non-members: $30
Call to register for classes (215) 247-5777 ext 156 or 125 |
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| May 17 |
Iris in the Garden
Saturday, May 17
10 a.m. – 12 noon
Bob Gutowski - Director of Public Programs, Morris Arboretum
The iris has been admired, traded, worshiped and cultivated throughout the northern hemisphere for thousands of years and for thirty years in Bob Gutowski’s garden. In his garden at the Arboretum’s Miller’s Cottage there are two dozen species and over two hundred named varieties extending the iris season from March through June with repeat
blooms in autumn. Bob likes their deerresistance, diversity, rainbow hues, fragrances, seasonal delight, histories and associated memories. This session includes iris admiration, discussion, demonstration and
digging in the Miller’s Cottage garden. Get the hands-on story on how to select and grow irises in the mixed border or in iris beds. Learn why the iris has a reputation as both easy and difficult, old fashioned and modern, friendly native and exotic pest, common place and rare, companionable and isolationist, beautiful and more beautiful. Other plants, natural history and spring gardening tips will not be neglected. Students are welcome to bring rhizomes. Enter the Bloomfield Farm
driveway across Northwestern Avenue from the public garden entrance. Park and meet in the lot to the side of the Horticulture Center, a large building that resembles a garage. We will walk to the Millers Cottage.
Members: $25
Non-members: $30
Call to register for classes (215) 247-5777 ext 156 or 125 |
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| June 10 |
Hardy Fern Gardening
Tuesday, June 10
7 – 9 p.m.
Shelley Dillard - Plant Propagator, Morris Arboretum
Hardy ferns are beautiful additions to the home garden. In this course you will learn about ferns, suitable for the shady garden, that are easy to grow in this area. Shelley will discuss the cultural conditions that ferns
require including appropriate light, soil, overwintering, and fertilization. Companion plants that work well with ferns will be included. Shelley will take you on a tour of the Morris Arboretum, show you gardens that
incorporate ferns into the landscape and share tips on how you can do this successfully in your own garden.
Members: $25
Non-members: $30
Call to register for classes (215) 247-5777 ext 156 or 125 |
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