Waking Up Your Garden
Spring cleaning in the garden is crucial to get shrubs and herbaceous borders looking their best and to prepare vegetable and herb beds for a bountiful year. Daryl Beyers will review … Read more
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Making Composition Work for You
Understanding and applying just a few key principles of composition will bring strength, balance and the “wow” factor to your artwork in any medium. We will explore a range of … Read more
Designing Your Garden From Scratch
Are you planning to make a garden? Before you do anything let Page Dickey illustrate and discuss some key elements to consider: connecting the garden to the house deciding on … Read more
Thinking Outside the Box: Using Excellent Plants in Creative Ways
Adam Wheeler of Broken Arrow Nursery in Hamden, Connecticut will share knowledge of trees, shrubs and conifers that are often overlooked by gardeners and landscape designers when planning gardens. This … Read more
Mind Your Matrix: Successful Plant Combinations to Create a Living Landscape
Robert Clyde Anderson returns to Hollister House Garden to share his methods for the technique of Matrix planting. If you haven’t heard about matrix planting, you will soon. Essentially the … Read more
Color in Nature
Careful observation of all the subtle hues and values in nature helps in creating accurate, colorful and unique paintings. Using watercolor in a series of exercises, learn to mix and … Read more
Life in the Studio
Join Frances Palmer as she discusses the links between her exquisite pottery and the beautiful flowers that she grows just outside her studio in two bountiful cutting gardens. The planting … Read more
The Sweet Sounds of Spring
As part of their Music in Great Spaces series the Waterbury Symphony presents The Sweet Sounds of Spring with Harmonia V Woodwind Quintet. This concert will take place in the … Read more
The Story of a Garden: Creating Coltsfoot
Over the past sixteen years Juliet and John Hubbard have created an enchanting cottage garden around the colonial house that has been in the Hubbard family for over 100 years. … Read more
Go Beyond the Basics: Smartphone Photography for the Garden
Nearly all smartphones/tablets offer simple-to-use, professional-level camera systems. Go beyond the basics of your device’s camera, and learn how to integrate these controls and create images of your garden, house, … Read more