Events

WINTERIZING GARDENS AND LANDSCAPES FOR EXCEPTIONAL RESULTS Please join me in my gardens on Saturday, September 24 from 10-noon for a hands-on, instructional workshop on how to cut back perennial gardens, winterize roses and flowering shrubs, plant bulbs (to critters from munching them!), protect evergreens from dessication, make the most of fall plant sales including…

Conifers play an important function in the four season garden.   To learn more about these great plants and to view some inspiring gardens, check out the Annual Conference of the Northeast Region of the American Conifer Society scheduled for September 9 & 10 in Burlington, VT.  For event details and registration visit www.conifersociety.org , click…

I am all over the place this month – from upstate New York to Maine to Chicago.  If you can join me at one of these events, please do…and let me know where I am while you are at it.  (: Thursday, August 4  Coastal Maine Botanical Garden, Boothbay, Maine. 10:00 a.m. For registration information,…

Knowing that summer calendars fill quickly, I wanted to give a heads-up about a terrific fundraiser on August 7th in Schroon Lake (NY).  The annual Schroon Lake House and Garden Tour is a fundraiser for the Schroon Lake Public Library. The tour showcases some of Schroon Lake’s most beautiful gardens and homes, including quaint bed…

The big ‘Filene’s Basement Sale’ is fast approaching in the gardens of Perennially Yours.  I was thrilled to see many of you at the May open house, eyeing many of the goodies to be potted or bagged on Thursday and Friday, June 16 & 17 from 9:00 – 5:00 p.m.  I will wait until the…

Registrations are rolling in for the ever-popular Fine Gardening Institute scheduled for Saturday, September 17 from 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. at The Factory Eatery in Ballston Spa.  This A – Z program covers the tricks of the trade for designing and caring for low-maintenance perennial gardens.  Topics include design techniques for ever-blooming gardens; top…

I haven’t offered a Fine Gardening Institute in years!  Shame on me.  These popular, one-day programs offer an immersion into the design and care for perennial gardens.  This interactive, hands-on workshop covers how to design an ever-blooming perennial garden; top performing perennials, shrubs and annuals; shortcuts for maintaining your gardens including weeding, fertilizing, mulching, watering,…

Please join Towne & Country Garden Club as they visit the World Association of Flower Arrangers Show in Boston on Friday, June 17, 2011. This is the first time ever in the USA. The bus leaves from Latham Farms Walmart parking lot at 7:00 a.m. The cost is $55 per person. The bus will leave…

I am psyched to be part of the New York Women’s Expo scheduled for March 18-20 at Siena College in Loudonville, NY. The event has over 150 vendors representing a wide range of businesses, services and products for women. Vendors include: Cosmetic Jewelry Cooking Home furnishings Medical services Financial advising  and much more.  Admission is…