Greener times are coming
Yeah, everything’s coated with a thin layer of ice, except for what’s coated with a thick layer of ice, but forget that for the moment. Tovah Martin is coming to town:
The beauty of gardens is that they mature. This is a lecture about horticultural preservation, stewardship, and how gardeners grapple with change. We address the challenges of bringing landscapes into the next generation. Whether you have inherited a landscape or crated a garden over decades and now face mature trees and shrubs that require preemptive pruning or relocation, we explore the issues great and small. We tackle such sticky wickets as rehabilitating overgrown boxwood hedges and coping with plants that were once considered exotics but have now been unmasked as invasives. This is lecture about bringing yesterday’s gardens into tomorrow and the issues that we all face in this process. But we also talk about plant preservation and heirloom varieties, honoring the people who have worked to preserve vintage ornamentals so those plants with a past can become the superstars of future gardens.
“Trowels & Tomorrow: Garden Stewardship” is Sunday, February 14, at the Educational Center at the OKC Zoo. Starting time is 2 pm.
Lisa Paul »
29 January 2010 · 11:58 pm
I suspect you like sexy gardening ladies. If so, you’d love Helen Mirren as a Martha Stewart type gardening maven in the movie “Greenfingers”. Check it out.
CGHill »
30 January 2010 · 12:02 am
I’d watch Helen Mirren as a clerk (pronounced, of course, “clark”) at the DMV.
And Martha herself, once a model, isn’t exactly devoid of pulchritude.