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LECTURES & EVENTS FOR FALL 2008

My popular lecture series returns thisFall, Saturday mornings at 10am. These are designed as one-hour lectures (except as noted), but I like to teach, and you like to ask questions, so they often run past 11am!!
   


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Duncan Kelbaugh's popular lecture series returns this Fall, Saturday mornings at 10am. These are designed as one-hour lectures (except as noted), but Duncan likes to teach, and you like to ask questions, so they often run past 11am!!


Sept 6 Renovating an older bed: How to deal with a mess! Overgrown shrubs & perennials, heavy weeds, lousy soil, rocks, messy edges, you name it. We'll look at pruning way back, transplanting, adding soil, weeding, fertilizing, mulching, edging, making it look good again!

Sept 13 Gardening Questions & Answers with Dick Chiswell & Duncan: pruning, ponds, perennials, composting, bugs, walkways, walls, and trees, whatever you want to ask, we'll try to answer.

Sept 20 Landscape & Pond Design & Construction: Six falls, three ponds, and a bridge, surrounded in a colourful purple & yellow landscape, make up Piggy Pond at the Corral at our Garden Centre. Duncan explains pond & falls layout and building, plus the design and colours of the lush plantings.

Sept 27 FALL FIELD DAY & Perennial Exchange
10am: Lecture: Perennial Gardening in the Fall
: Colourful foliage & flowers, dividing, maintenance, & winterizing.
11am- Perennial and houseplant Exchange: Trade clumps of perennials from your garden for kinds you don't have. Bring rooted cuttings or babies of your favourite house plants too.

11:15:Kids scavenger hunt
: The popular dash through the nature trail for hidden coins!
11:30- Hot Dog BBQ and tractor rides for the kids.


Oct 4 Dealing with Deer in your garden: Types of fencing, repellents, plants they do and don't like, ways to cope, and if all else fails, Sympathy!

Oct 11: Walkways, walls, & Patios- design & construction: demos & tips for do-it-yourselfers

Oct 18: Special 2-hour pruning clinic (10am-noon): Duncan will demonstrate his thinning pruning technique on many kinds of evergreens and flowering shrubs around the property, which allows you to prune all species anytime you want, controlling size and shape while keeping the natural appearance. Dunc's Birthday Cake for all who come!!

 

 

Try and stump me with your gardening questions:
email them to me at doctorduncan@brunswicknurseries.com
   


 

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