Garden clubs join forces to host landscape designer

Friday, March 30, 2012

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Garden club committee member, from left, Susan Tucker, Goffstown; Pat Caisse, Milford; Bernita Desmond, Merrimack; Marti Warren, Amherst; Gail York, Manchester; and Sandy MacKey, Bedford, meet to plan the upcoming Gordon Hayward program, “The Intimate Garden.”

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BEDFORD – One of the missions of local garden clubs is to educate the public and promote gardening skills and knowledge.

To that end, garden clubs from Amherst, Bedford, Goffstown, Hollis, Hooksett, Manchester, Merrimack and Milford have combined their resources to bring nationally renowned landscape designer and author Gordon Hayward to Bedford.

Hayward will share his expertise with the community when he presents “The Intimate Garden at Bedford High School Theatre,” at 7 p.m., Thursday, April 19.

Hayward and his wife have spent 28 years transforming their own 1½ acre Vermont garden from a ramshackle piece of property into the intimate haven.

With the use of more than 200 color slides, he will reveal their gardening trials and errors and the garden design expertise they honed in the process.

Hayward has a reputation for being an engaging speaker who gives practical landscape design advice that can be easily adopted in your own garden.

Hayward is the author of 10 books on garden design, two of which won national awards. Hayward designed the Frye Gardens in Peterborough, which were featured in Traditional Home Magazine and on the Garden Conservancy’s Open Days Program. He wrote for Horticulture Magazine for 25 years and has given many lectures across America.

Hayward’s mantra is “You can do this!” Don’t miss this opportunity to learn how to put Hayward’s design principles to work in your own outdoor spaces.

The public is invited to attend. Tickets may be purchased for $5 at Bedford Fields, 331 Route 101 in Bedford. On April 19, tickets will be sold for $8 and will be available on a first-come, first-serve basis.

For more information or to purchase tickets through the eight hosting garden clubs, call 488-5001 or visit bedfordnhgardenclub.org.

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