Right-Sized Gardening: Growing with Life’s Changes with Jo Ellen Meyers Sharp Jo Ellen Meyers Sharp is the Hoosier Gardener. She’s a 25-year, award-winning veteran of print journalism and owner of Write for You! LLC, a freelance writing and editing business. You can find her blog at hoosiergardener.com. Jo Ellen is a past president of GardenComm:
Planting Perennials for Successive Blooming with John Chapin John Chapin lives in Danville, IN and was an elementary teacher for 36 years and also ran a landscaping company for 38 years, overlapping his teaching career for 20 years. He started Tree Frog Gardens as his “retirement” business seven years ago – growing and selling unusual
Digging and Delighted: Dug in the Fall to be Delighted in the Spring with Carol J. Michel If you are tempted to put your gardening tools away when it’s time to buy Halloween candy, you are missing out on the opportunity to set the stage in your garden for a great spring show. Carol will
Designing the Winter Garden with Amy Mullen Make your garden a four-season one by injecting winter interest into your garden, without sacrificing beauty the rest of the year. Includes creating views from inside, the importance of structure, great plants for the winter garden, and more. Amy Mullen is a garden designer, coach, blogger and plant
Holiday Gathering The annual holiday party will be the final event of the year, and will be held at the Coxhall Gardens Mansion. We will enjoy a festive pitch-in with members bringing their favorite dish to share. There will be games, games, and games with loads of fabulous prizes. There may even be a few
Don Rawson in one of his hosta gardens
John Chapin will talk about expanding the shade garden plant palette.
AHS National Display Gardens Guest Speaker: Danny Lawson Danny is a lifelong Kansan who has enjoyed gardening from a very young age. Introduced over 20 years ago to hostas by his older sister Linda, who is a Sedgwick County Master Gardner, his love for them quickly took off. Danny is the President and Newsletter Editor
Hosta 101 and Leaf Show Prep Class Ever thought about submitting leaves for the May Leaf Show but just not sure what you need to do? This is the class for you. Amy will walk you thru all the steps from choosing the proper leaf, cleaning it and soaking them overnight so they are perfect
Celebrating North Ameica in Our Gardens and Landscapes Guest Speaker: Dawn Slack, SICIM, Southern Indiana Cooperative Invasives Management
Member Pitch-in and Auction We will be holding this years Auction at the Pavilion at Holliday Park, enter through the south entrance of the park. There are picnic tables under cover to accommodate us all. Tony and Curtis will at the grills cooking up burgers and brats, members to bring their favorite sides.Plant drop-off at:
Oh Bats! Our speaker will be from the Indiana Department of Natural Resources and will discuss the status of the Indiana Bat and why we really want them in our landscape. The mammalogists within Indiana DNR’s Division of Fish, Wildlife, & Nature Preserves are tasked with monitoring the populations of mammalian wildlife that occur across