RCGC Spring Symposium

Presented by

Rochester Civic Garden Center &
Clover Nursery & Garden Center

Saturday March 3, 2012
9am-3pm

Eisenhart Auditorium, Rochester Museum & Science Center, 657 East Avenue

Stephanie Cohen

We’re delighted to feature ‘Perennial Diva’ Stephanie Cohen as the keynote speaker for our upcoming symposium. Stephanie is a well-known columnist for Fine Gardening and has three books to her credit, including Fallscaping - Extending Your Garden Season into Autumn and The Perennial Gardeners Design Primer.

Stephanie will present two lectures at our Symposium, both based on her newest book, The Nonstop Garden: A Step-By-Step Guide to Smart Plant Choices and Four-Season Designs (Timber Press, 2010). This book incorporates a wealth of information into an easy-to-use guide, split into four main parts: the nuts and bolts of designing a mixed garden, the garden's main attractions (trees and shrubs), the garden's supporting cast (bulbs, annuals, edibles, and vines), and finishing touches (ornamentation, containers, and garden structures). Stephanie includes design strategies that are creative and help you to achieve a productive garden with year-round interest. Steve Aitken, editor of Fine Gardening, says it all: "I wish I had The Nonstop Garden when I was just starting out. It would have saved me plenty of trial and error. The ideas are easy to understand and carry out - just what gardeners need."

Shrubganza: Not only do shrubs add color and style to foundation plantings, they are perfect companions to perennial borders and container plantings. Stephanie will guide you through the vast array of sizes, colors and textures of deciduous shrubs that are hitting the market, and share design strategies that will help you achieve an easily maintained garden with year-round interest.

Natives - Sustainable, Colorful, and Wonderful: Natives support butterfly, bird and beneficial insect populations, but not all of them are garden-worthy. In this lecture Stephanie will show you how to use them more confidently in your designs, as she explores the best for sun and shade, points out thugs to be avoided, and illustrates how to site them to their best advantage.
 

Bio:
Stephanie was recently named Garden Communicator of the Year by the Perennial Plant Association, which has also granted her three awards for design as well as their Service and Academic Award. She has received awards from Temple University and the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society. In 2000 The American Nursery and Landscape Association named her Garden Communicator of the Year, and in 2005 she became a fellow of the Temple University Alumni Association, the highest award they grant. She has lectured coast to coast and been featured on QVC TV as the 'Perennial Diva' and on CN8 TV every month in their gardening segment.

Stephanie has taught classes on herbaceous plants and perennial design at Temple University for over 20 years and was the founder and director of their Landscape Arboretum. She is a contributing editor for Fine Gardening magazine and the HGTV Newsletter, is on the advisory boards of horticulture industry publication Green Profit and the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society's Green Scene, and is a regional writer for the Blooms of Bressingham plant program.

Sandra Weber

We are proud to welcome Rochester-based photo-journalist Sandra Weber to our 2012 symposium as our second speaker. Sandra believes that taking good photographs is largely about seeing.

Seeing Gardens: Sandra will inspire you in this slide-illustrated talk to see gardens everywhere in a new way. By expanding the concept of 'gardens' to include the asymmetry found in nature’s design—the haphazard and serendipitous—as well as the harmony of formal and man-made gardens, garden-loving photographers can find interesting subjects everywhere: in fields, roadsides, rivers, parks, reflections, window boxes, house plants, and more. You’ll come away more aware of how to capture the beauty of plants, gardens, and flowers by noticing colors, pattern, shapes, angles, and most important, the role of light in producing beautiful garden photography.
 

Bio:
Sandra Weber is a Rochester-based photojournalist whose work has appeared in publications that include the New York Times, (Toronto) Globe and Mail, Denver Post, Los Angeles Times, Yankee Magazine, Vegetarian Times, and Rochester Magazine. She has taught at educational and cultural venues such as the Chautauqua Institution, Yellowstone Association, the U.S. Botanic Garden, Brookside Gardens, and others.

Program
8:15 am   Registration, Gardeners’ Marketplace, book sales, continental breakfast
9:00        Stephanie Cohen: Shrubganza
10:15      Break: Marketplace, book sales and signing, continental breakfast
10:45      Sandra Weber: Seeing Gardens
12:00 noon   Lunch break, Marketplace, book sales and signing
1:00 pm   Stephanie Cohen: Natives - Sustainable, Colorful, and Wonderful
2:15        Raffle, Marketplace, book sales and signing

Many thanks to our Symposium sponsors:

 Clover Nursery and Garden Center • 485 Landing Road North, Rochester 14625 • (585) 244-1626 • clovernursery.com

Gerald and Karen Kral

Rochester Garden Club

Allyn’s Creek Garden Club

Baker’s Acres • 1104 Auburn Road (Rt. 34), Groton, NY 13073 • (607) 533-4653 • Specializing in perennials, herbs & unusual annuals; 20 display gardens, garden gift shop, Rae’s Roost nature shop • Open daily April-October; Kendra’s Café open for groups of 20 or more • info@bakersacres.net • bakersacres.net

Experienced Bricks, LLC • Authentic reclaimed street pavers • 11 Brynstone Ct, Amherst, NY 14228 • (716) 912-9817 • exbricks.com

Holmes Hollow Nursery & Christmas Tree Farm • Retail/wholesale nursery selling perennials, trees, shrubs and ornamental grasses. Also a cut-your-own Christmas tree farm • 2334 Turk Hill Road, Victor 14564 • (585) 223-0959 • tree4u@frontiernet.net • holmeshollow.com

Oriental Garden Supply • Specializing in rare and unusual plant materials with an emphasis on Japanese maples and dwarf conifers. One of the largest selections in the Northeast • 448 West Bloomfield Road, Pittsford 14534 • (585) 586-3850 • orientalgardens@aol.com • orientalgardensupply.com

Rochester Public Market • 52 weeks of freshness • 280 North Union Street, Rochester 14609 • Open Tuesdays and Thursdays, 6 am-1 pm, Saturdays, 5 am-3 pm, all year round • Flower City Days at the Market for 2012: Sundays, 8 a.m. to 2 pm, May 6, 13, 20, 25, 26, 27, 28 & June 3 • cityofrochester.gov

Sara’s Garden Center • A full service garden center and nursery with special emphasis on perennials and water gardening • Open 7 days a week, 9 am-5 pm; till 8 pm in May & June • 389 East Avenue, Brockport 14420 • (585) 637-4745 • kkepler@rochester.rr.com • sarasgc.com


    

 

            Continental breakfast sponsor: 
The Artful Gardener • Garden accents, planters, home décor and gifts • 727 Mt. Hope Avenue, Rochester 14620 • (585) 454-2874 • artfulgardener@frontier.com • Open Tuesday-Saturday and seasonally on Sunday; call for hours or find us on Facebook  
     

Tickets

• $45 RCGC members
• $55 non-members

Membership Special – Save $10 with new or renewed RCGC membership:

• Individual Membership plus one Symposium ticket, $70
• Family Membership plus one Symposium ticket, $80

Lunches: 

Box lunches will be available for $13, and must be preordered. Deadline for purchasing a lunch is Tuesday, February 28.

4 Choices:

• Greek salad (vegetarian): includes feta cheese, vegetables, pepperoncini, lettuce
• Harvest chicken salad: includes mixed greens, cranberries, nuts, gorgonzola cheese
• Grilled vegetables and cheese wrap (vegetarian)
• Turkey wrap, with mayo, lettuce and tomato

All box lunches include potato chips, fruit cup, cookie, and choice of beverage.

Symposium and lunch tickets are available at RCGC, online below, and by phone (585-473-5130), mail (RCGC, 5 Castle Park, Rochester, NY 14620), fax (585-473-8136), or email (rcgcjh@frontiernet.net ).

Please note:
Tickets will not be mailed. If you have pre-registered, your name will be on a list of participants at the event. Check in when you arrive.