Posted Mar 29, 2012
By Pam Pratt
EMC News – You have designed your own garden but realize it doesn’t match the glorious display you envisioned. So, you need some ideas to get you started. When you look into garden design you discover it is a complicated area covering diverse topics like plant selection and pattern styles which start your stomach sinking and causes your resolve to melt away. You know what you like when you see it in someone else’s garden but you aren’t experienced enough in the art of garden design to translate it into your own plan.
David Priest, master gardener, will be at the Perth and District Horticultural Society (PDHS) on Tuesday, April 10, to introduce Garden Design Patterns, a presentation on the language of garden design. The presentation will focus on the garden elements of form, foliage, and flowers to illustrate how these components can be combined to develop and discuss garden designs. Priest is the owner/developer of www.gardenaway.com, a website that helps gardeners find plants for their gardens. While working with White House Perenials in Almonte on a display garden renovation, Priest realized that several designs stood out in the garden work and developed a descriptive language for those designs so that others could learn and be inspired. The result, Garden Design Patterns, will be available on his website in the early spring.
The meeting is at 7:30 p.m. in the Library of PDCI on Tuesday, April 10, to hear this fascinating presentation and maybe be inspired. Non-members are always welcome and are asked to pay $3 at the door.
Speaking of spring, it is that time again – time for our Junior Gardeners Program. It is a six-week program given once a week by PDHS volunteers in local elementary schools. Its purpose is to introduce school children to the joys of gardening and perhaps inspire in them a lifetime passion. This program is so successful that we have over 250 children from area schools participating this year. It is almost bigger than we can manage but we are thrilled with the reaction of students and the enthusiasm of teachers. Each child gets a journal, a workbook, plants, cactus garden, Mother’s Day arrangement and seeds to take home. As you can imagine our costs are beginning to add up considerably and we ask for your support for our annual Great Perennial Plant Sale at the end of May which provides much of the funding required for this program.
Perth and area has always been most supportive of our initiatives and we thank all sponsors and volunteers for their continued efforts and support.
Why not join the PDHS? For only $10 per year, you get a beautiful Yearbook, monthly meetings with interesting speakers and a social time, winter and summer social events, trip opportunities, a discount at local garden centres and a host of new friends.
Submitted by Pam Pratt, Perth District Horticultural Society
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