Silver Spring Garden Club invites you to the "Native Plants for a New American Cottage Garden" Talk on Jan 12

The Silver Spring Garden Club invites you to:

Native Plants for a New American Cottage Garden
It’s time to take a fresh look at the cottage garden. This traditionally British form can be easily adapted for American gardens using American plants. The charming jumble of perennials and shrubs can be a truly sustainable and beautiful model for small gardens. American gardeners can have all the advantages of a cottage garden--the romantic appeal, the low maintenance, and the goopy prettiness of it all--with a wildlife friendly native mix.

Our speaker is Thomas Rainer is a registered landscape architect, teacher, and writer living in Washington, D.C. Thomas is a passionate advocate for an ecologically expressive design aesthetic that does not imitate nature, but interprets it. His planting designs focus on creating a modern expression of the ground plane with a largely native palette of perennials and grasses. Thomas has designed landscapes for the U.S. Capitol grounds, the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial, and The New York Botanical Garden, as well as over 100 gardens from Maine to Florida. Find out more about him at http://landscapeofmeaning.blogspot.com/p/about-me.html,.

WHEN: Monday, January 12, 8:00pm
(Doors open at 7:30pm)

WHERE: Montgomery College
Takoma Park/Silver Spring Campus
Health Sciences Center Building
Room 122

DIRECTIONS: http://cms.montgomerycollege.edu/edu/Department.aspx?id=30047

Please walk, bike, metro, bus, or carpool. IF you drive, please park on the 3rd level of the college’s King Street parking garage.

This meeting is FREE and open to the public.

It is hosted by the Silver Spring Garden Club. The Club dues are just $10 a year for inidividuals and $15 for couples/households.