Walnut Hill Garden Club of Hanover will host a lecture and slide show titled “Gardening for the 21st Century” by Marie Stella, landscape historian and landscape designer, at 7:15 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 2 at Phoenix Lodge, Broadway and Washington streets, Hanover.
The lecture is free and the public is invited.
Stella holds graduate certificates in landscape design and landscape design history from Radcliffe College, Harvard University. In 2009, Stella’s home, Beaver Lodge in Shelburne Falls, which she designed and built for sustainability, was the first single family home certified to have earned a Platinum level “green” level, the highest rating possible from the U.S. Green Building Council LEED/E for Homes. The Center for Ecological Technology, a nonprofit organization offering green building services across western Massachusetts, certified the home. It was the sixth home in Massachusetts that had earned the LEED Platinum rating.
In her Hanover lecture, Stella will discuss how a sustainable landscape can address present resident needs without adversely impacting the ability of future residents to meet new and changing needs. Addressing environmental awareness, Stella will highlight ways to use plant material to clean air, soil and water and to restore the ecological systems.
Topics will include dry gardening, plant buffer zones, the lawn and invasive species. New directions in water management concentrate on the permeable ground plane, mulches and natural swimming pools without chemicals. Heirloom and unusual varieties of herbs, vegetables, fruits and flowers bind people to their past; Stella will discuss why it is important to preserve the full range of genetic possibilities of such plants for the future.
To reserve a place or for more information, call 671-826-6329 or email: walnuthillma@hotmail.com.
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