Theme for 2011-2012: Southern Gardens – A Sense of Place
JANUARY GENERAL MEETING
Anatomy of a Cottage Garden
Frank Hyman
Ways to Save Your Back, Budget, Time, and Planet
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
9:30 am – Meet and Greet Coffee
10:00 am – Program
Education Center, NC Botanical Garden
Would you like to spend more time enjoying your garden than feeling enslaved by it? In this lecture you’ll learn about getting rid of leaves without bagging, making great compost that doesn’t need turning, and smart ways to hook up rain barrels so they really work (and also function as water gardens—no kidding).
And just for fun, you’ll learn how to minimize weeds and maximize the flowers that are such an important design element of a Cottage Garden. At the end of the lecture, you will have the tools you need to become a Liberated Gardener!
Trained at NC State University under the late JC Raulston, Frank Hyman is an award‐winning garden designer. He has created beautiful and sustainable gardens in Durham for 19 years as the owner of Cottage Garden Landscaping. He’s designed hundreds of gardens that are dramatic, colorful, edible, fragrant, drought‐hardy, deer‐resistant, low maintenance, organic, and just plain pretty.
Frank is entertaining, inspiring, knowledgeable, and speaks from actual experience with a “common sense” approach to gardening. A garden writer for 20 years, Frank’s articles appear in Horticulture, Urban Farm, Fine Gardening, the NYT, Independent Weekly, the N&O, and Carolina Gardener Magazine.
FrankHyman.com
liberatedgardener.net