Garden Lectures Set for January, February

Just mainly because it can be winter won’t indicate you can not start pondering about gardening time! Be confident to test out the Harry Allen Winter Lecture Sequence coming up at Inexperienced Spring Gardens, 4603 Eco-friendly Spring Road. Here’s all the details you can expect to need to have:

When? Sundays in January and February | 1:30-2:30 p.m.

Charge: $12 progress registration

Be part of good friends of Green Spring Gardens for this common yearly sequence of digital and in-particular person shows by authors, backyard garden designers, experts and other backyard lovers on the cutting edge of horticulture.

Register on-line at www.fairfaxcounty.gov/parks/parktakes or phone Environmentally friendly Spring Gardens at 703-642-5173.

Virtual Winter Lecture – ‘Backyard Pollinator Oasis’

Jan. 15

Sign up for pollinator expert Heather Andrews in this virtual dialogue on how to make a sustainable organic oasis that will invite in an military of very good bugs to reduce pest strain and improve your veggie and fruit generate. A Zoom hyperlink will be emailed prior to the software. Code H3T.564R

Winter season Lecture – ‘Making Eco-friendly Spring Greener’

Jan. 22

Environmentally friendly Spring Gardens web-site supervisor Judy Zatsick and horticulturist Adam Bucher explore how the funds from the 2021 FROGS once-a-year enchantment, “Making Green Spring Greener,” ended up utilized about the web page and will focus on the thrilling new updates to the yard coming in the tumble. This method will be held in human being. Code EWI.P4MR

Winter Lecture – ‘Tropicals for Temperate Landscapes’

Jan. 29

Tropical and subtropical vegetation can generate incredible energy and pleasure in temperate landscapes and deliver robust design things by way of the hardest and most popular months of the growing year. Using five memorable types from her new e book “Tropical Crops and How to Really like Them,” Marianne Willburn will concentration on incorporating some magnificent examples in containers and beds—many of which are remarkably uncomplicated to overwinter. This program will be held in man or woman. Ebook signing after lecture. Code 8LN.YWHJ

Wintertime Lecture – ‘A Historical past of Hedges’

Feb. 5

Investigate the intriguing heritage of hedges, from rural hedgerows to typical backyard layout options with Inexperienced Spring Historian Debbie Waugh. Take into consideration their sensible, ecological and decorative value and what they can explain to us about the people who planted them. Look at stunning hedges from about the entire world and hear about Inexperienced Spring’s own historic hedge. This software will be held in man or woman. Code RO5.FV0M

Virtual Winter Lecture – ‘History of American Gardening’

Feb. 12

Sign up for celebrated landscape designer and winner of the 2021 Philadelphia Flower Present “Best in Show” Wambui Ippolito for a virtual exploration of the record of American gardening through the lens of the immigrants who aided cultivate techniques and plant existence that are however utilised currently. A Zoom backlink will be emailed prior to the program. Code QXD.Z9Y3

Virtual Wintertime Lecture – ‘Stressless Gardening’

Feb. 19

Be a part of landscape architect Preston Montague for a digital dialogue on how to avoid typical gardening tactics that cause avoidable strain and minimize the ecosystem likely of our landscapes. Learn techniques to keep gardening healthy for us and the setting. A Zoom hyperlink will be emailed prior to the application. Code QIW.U0H2