Programs & Events

November Meeting at Cheekwood Botanic Hall

Date:  November 18, 2008
Time:  7:00  - 8:30 pm
Refreshments & Plant Swap:  6:30 pm
Location:  Massey Auditorium in Botanic Hall
Cheekwood Botanic Garden and Museum of Art
1200 Forest Park Drive
Nashville, TN  37205

FREE and open to the public.

     Allen Bush has been involved with horticulture for most of his life.  A graduate of the University of Kentucky, he was an International Trainee at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew, England from 1978-1979.  He then became owner of Holbrook Farm and Nursery in Fletcher, NC.  Growers of perennials, wildflower and rare trees and shrubs, Holbrook Farm introduced many new plants to the U.S. market, including Heuchera ‘Palace Purple’, Lamium ‘White Nancy’ and Stokesia ‘Klaus Jelitto’ -- all now standards in our perennial gardens.  Allen also hybridized the Heuchera ‘Molly Bush’, which he named for his daughter.  In 2002 ‘Molly Bush’ received the Royal Horticultural Society’s Award of Garden Merit.
     In 1995 Bush became the Research and Marketing Director of Jelitto Perennial Seeds.  Jelitto Perennial Seeds is a wholesale producer, breeder and distributor of more than 3400 varieties of perennial, native wildflower, alpine, ornamental grass and herb seeds. Founded in 1957 by Klaus R. Jelitto, the company’s headquarters are in Schwarmstedt, Germany.  From Jelitto’s U.S.A. offices in Louisville, KY, Allen coordinates North American sales and public relations, works with domestic seed producers and searches for potential new varieties around the world.

     In his talk on the 18th,  Allen will take us from the Ohio Valley to the Tibetan Plateau and will feature the fun perennials he is growing in the city garden he shares with his wife, Rose.
     

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January Meeting at Cheekwood Botanic Hall

Date:  January 19, 1009
Time:  7:00  - 8:30 pm
Refreshments & Plant Swap:  6:30 pm
Location:  Massey Auditorium in Botanic Hall
Cheekwood Botanic Garden and Museum of Art
1200 Forest Park Drive
Nashville, TN  37205

FREE and open to the public.

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February Meeting at Cheekwood Botanic Hall

Date:  February 16, 2009
Time:  7:00  - 8:30 pm
Refreshments & Plant Swap:  6:30 pm
Location:  Massey Auditorium in Botanic Hall
Cheekwood Botanic Garden and Museum of Art
1200 Forest Park Drive
Nashville, TN  37205

FREE and open to the public.

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Nashville Lawn & Garden Show Will Be Presented March 5 – 8, 2009

The Horticultural Association of Tennessee will present the 20th Annual Nashville Lawn and Garden Show on Thursday, March 5, through Sunday, March 8, 2009, at the Tennessee State Fairgrounds. Tennessee's premier horticultural event, the Nashville Lawn and Garden Show attracts more than 22,000 people annually and is one of the largest gardening shows in the South.

Centerpiece of the Nashville Lawn & Garden Show is a naturalized presentation of more than 20 outstanding live gardens created by professional landscape designers.  Most of the gardens include water features, ranging from small fountains to large waterfalls, and elaborate structures such as rock walls, terraces, pergolas and gazebos. A series of 20 free lectures is presented throughout the four-day show by expert horticulturists and garden designers. The show also includes 250 exhibit booths of horticultural products, services, and equipment for show and sale; in 2008, vendors from 12 states participated in the event. The show's spectacular floral design gallery features the work of more than 25 of the best designers in the mid-south region.

The 2009 Nashville Lawn & Garden Show will open at 10:00 a.m. and close at 8:00 p.m. each day, except Sunday when the doors close at 5:00 p.m.  Admission to the show is $10.00 for adults; $9.00 for seniors (age 65 & up) and $1.00 for children 12 and under. Four-day show passes are $15.00. Discounts are available for groups of 15 or more adults when purchased in a block. Tickets may be purchased on-line through the show's website. All events are indoors and there is ample free parking. The show is fully handicapped accessible.

More than 22,000 people attended the 2008 show. Proceeds are used by the Horticultural Association of Tennessee to fund horticultural projects throughout Tennessee.

http://www.nashvillelawnandgardenshow.com

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July Meeting at Cheekwood Botanic Hall

FREE and open to the public.

Steve Watson is one of the most knowledgeable hosta growers in the middleTennessee area. A charter member of the Middle Tennessee Hosta Society, he is also a lifetime member of the American Hosta Society. For over fifteen years he has been growing hostas at his nursery, Lily's Garden. Steve is also a member of the American Hosta Growers of America - the group that each year selects the AHGA "Hosta of the Year".

At the July meeting Steve will talk about the many uses of hostas in the garden: in collections, as accent plants, and as foundational plantings. His talk will be heavily illustrated with photos of hostas, including many new and unusual varieties.

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August Meeting at Cheekwood Botanic Hall

Date:  August 19, 2008
Time:  7:00  - 8:30 pm
Refreshments & Plant Swap:  6:30 pm
Location:  Massey Auditorium in Botanic Hall
Cheekwood Botanic Garden and Museum of Art
1200 Forest Park Drive
Nashville, TN  37205

FREE and open to the public.

     Intimidated by lofty landscape principles? Let Carol debunk
some of the myths that may have made you hesitate. Develop a fun,
productive philosophy that guides your choices and forgives  “mistakes”.  Funny, wise and motivational, this talk will have you looking at your landscape with fresh eyes.

     Carol Reese is a garden writer, photographer and lecturer whose engagements have taken her all over the nation, camera in hand. As Ornamental Horticulturist for the University of Tennessee, and Q & A columnist for Horticulture Magazine, she has vast practical experience, but it’s her enthusiasm and zany humor that make her presentations memorable and compelling.

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September Meeting at Cheekwood Botanic Hall

Date:  September 16, 2008
Time:  7:00  - 8:30 pm
Refreshments & Plant Swap:  6:30 pm
Location:  Massey Auditorium in Botanic Hall
Cheekwood Botanic Garden and Museum of Art
1200 Forest Park Drive
Nashville, TN  37205

FREE and open to the public.

     Keith Davitt is an internationally recognized, award winning landscape designer with projects nation-wide and abroad. He is the author of four landscape design books and a frequent presenter and instructor at Botanic Gardens, Arboretum and Symposia across America. His published books include; "Small Spaces Beautiful Gardens" and "Beyond the Lawn" from Rockport Publishers, "Water Features For Small Gardens" from Timber Press and "Hardscaping" from Sterling Publishing.

     GARDENS of Keith Davitt and Partners, a landscape architectural and garden design firm headed by Keith Davitt and Robin Ginac, is based in Cambridge, New York, but has clients throughout the United States, as well as around the world.  For more information about GARDENS and Keith Davitt please visit the website at www.keithdavitt.com.

     Keith’s lecture at the September meeting is entitled Garden Designs For Outdoor Living  - Design Strategies for Making the Most of Small and Large Spaces. This colorful PowerPoint show features many before and after images of spaces designed by Davitt.  He will discuss principles and techniques for creating wonderful outdoor living rooms in every size and type of garden space through the use of harmonious structural elements as well as dynamic plant groupings.

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October Meeting at Cheekwood Botanic Hall

Date:  October 21, 2008
Time:  7:00  - 8:30 pm
Refreshments & Plant Swap:  6:30 pm
Location:  Massey Auditorium in Botanic Hall
Cheekwood Botanic Garden and Museum of Art
1200 Forest Park Drive
Nashville, TN  37205

FREE and open to the public.

     Whether you're gardening on the cutting edge, the edge of a cliff or the edge of sanity, this talk is sure to open your eyes to a new and amazing world of plants that are rare, unusual, hard-to-find and some of the most highly desirable plants the gardening world has to offer.  Some are new introductions just making their way into gardens and garden centers around the country and others are so rare that they are still only available one or two at a time through specialty nurseries and plant collectors.  A few aren't even available at all, but that doesn't mean that we can't lust after them and wish we could call them our own.  All aboard for a roller coaster ride through the wild, wonderful, wacky world of plants that leaves so many of us "Gardening On The Edge".
     Nashville’s Troy Marden is gaining notoriety as a top authority on gardening and its related subjects. From his work as a designer, to his popularity as a co-host of Nashville Public Television's Volunteer Gardener and his appearances in numerous local, regional and national gardening magazines, to lecturing at trade shows and gardening events around the country, Troy has taken what began as a childhood dream and turned it into a career that has taken him throughout North America and around the globe.
     An avid, lifelong gardener, Troy learned early on the ins and outs of everyday gardening from family and friends. He sowed his first seeds, literally, at the age of three and the resulting trees still stand at his parents' home. From his grandfather's tomato patch to the nursery he worked in during his high school and college years to stints at some of the country's best-known botanical gardens, it's no wonder that Troy's career has become so multi-faceted as to include award-winning garden design, a hit television show, popularity as a lecturer and educator for both experienced and new gardeners alike, writing, photography, floral design and more.  And through all of this he has stayed true to his passion--the desire to share his love of all things green with others.

Visit Troy’s website at www.troybmarden.com for photos of some of the gardens Troy has worked on and more info about him.

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