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GARDENING TALK: "Seasonal Care for Gorgeous, Well-Behaved Gardens" with Kerry Ann Mendez
Learn how to spend less time maintaining your garden and more time savoring it.
After our record-setting winter, gardeners are both looking forward to spring flowers and dreading their longer-than-ever lists of garden chores. But take heart! According to author and garden consultant Kerry Ann Mendez, it is possible to reduce the time and effort required to have an “impress-the-neighbors” garden. Learn how on April 8th, at Mendez’s illustrated lecture on “Seasonal Care for Gorgeous, Well-Behaved Gardens,” presented by The Evening Garden Club of West Roxbury.
Kerry Ann Mendez has been a featured guest on HGTV and has appeared in numerous gardening magazines including Horticulture, Fine Gardening, Garden Gate and Better Homes and Gardens’ Garden Ideas & Outdoor Living. She regularly speaks to packed audiences at the New England Flower & Garden Show and other regional and national events, where she is known as much for her humorous style as for her gardening expertise. Mendez is also a national spokesperson for Proven Winners® plants and Espoma® brand garden products.
A devotee of low-maintenance gardening and landscaping techniques, Mendez will reveal her personal recipe for saving time on year-round garden chores, including tips for pruning, cutting back and deadheading; what, when and how to fertilize; and mulch selection and use. She will also be sharing her top picks for workhorse perennials, accompanied by eye-popping photographs.
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Prior to and following the lecture, autographed copies of Mendez’s books will be available for purchase, including her top-selling first book, The Ultimate Flower Gardener’s Top Ten Lists, released in March 2010; Top Ten Lists for Beautiful Shade Gardens (March 2011); and her most recent, The Right Size Flower Garden (March 2015).
Doors open for registration and light refreshments at 6:30. Free parking is available.
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About the Evening Garden Club of West Roxbury (EGCWR):
Founded in 1996, The Evening Garden Club of West Roxbury is a member of the Metro District of the Garden Club Federation of Massachusetts, Inc. (GCFM) and the New England Region of National Garden Clubs, Inc. A 501(c)(3) charity organization, the EGCWR maintains four community beautification sites. Club meetings — which are open to the public — are held monthly and feature presentations by experienced horticulturists, floral designers and environmentalists.