Other Places You Can See Us
Upcoming Speaking Engagements
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Wednesday, January 10, 2018 6:30 p.m. |
Edgewood Garden Club William Hall Library Cranston, RI |
Classic Design for Contemporary Gardens |
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Our contemporary lives are full of expressions of classic design. These timeless principles of artistic composition may not always be plainly revealed but should be heeded. Landscape designer Warren Leach, owner of Tranquil Lake Nursery in Rehoboth, Massachusetts, will explore some of these elements of Classic Design, from the Classic Chinese Scholar’s Gardens to 18th century American landscapes and 19th century paintings. He will show how to embrace these principles in your own gardens and landscape. |
Wednesday, January 17 9:30 a.m. |
Hingham Garden Club Hingham Public Library Hingham, MA |
Beyond Blooms: Creative Design with Color, Structure and Seasonal Senescence |
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| Warren Leach, talented garden designer and owner of Tranquil Lake Nursery in Rehoboth, will recommend a diverse selection of superlative plants with exceptional foliage characteristics in his talk “Beyond Blooms: Creative Design with Color, Structure and Seasonal Senescence”. Warren will highlight woody and herbaceous plants with good garden foliage color, architectural structure, multi-season interest and stunning shape and texture characteristics that can be used in a diversity of ways to compliment flowers, provide structure and offer seasonal succession in the mixed border. Warren will also suggest plant combinations that you can translate into your own garden, echoing leaf colors and texture to brighten the garden through the seasons. | |
Thursdays, January 25 through February 15 (4 evenings) 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. |
Landscape and Planting Design |
Cheney Room of the Education Building Massachusetts Horticultural Society 900 Washington Street Wellesley, MA 02482 |
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In this four-week course, instructor and landscape horticulturist, Warren Leach, will focus on fundamental principles of design used in creating landscapes and garden spaces and composing planting designs using a complement of woody and herbaceous plants. Pre-registration required $125 members/$160 general admission Classes will be held Thursdays, January 25, February 1, February 8 and February 15 at The Gardens at Elm Bank, Wellesley, MA.
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Wednesday, February 7 2:00 p.m. |
Osterville Garden Club Our Lady of Victory Church Centerville, MA |
Plant Combinations for a Long Season of Bloom |
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| You can enjoy colorful and fragrant flowers even in January, long before the vernal equinox and have blooms celebrate all of the other seasons; spring, summer and fall! This is not a fanciful ideal and you don’t need a heated greenhouse or conservatory. Landscape Horticulturist Warren Leach will introduce plants and planting combination to extend your garden enjoyment. | |
Sunday, February 11 2:30 p.m. |
Tower Hill Botanic Garden Boylston, MA |
Plant Combinations for a Long Season of Bloom |
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| You can enjoy colorful and fragrant flowers even in January, long before the vernal equinox and have blooms celebrate all of the other seasons; spring, summer and fall! This is not a fanciful ideal and you don’t need a heated greenhouse or conservatory. Landscape Horticulturist Warren Leach will introduce plants and planting combination to extend your garden enjoyment.
Free with Admission to Tower Hill. |
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Friday, February 16 12:30 p.m. |
Springfield Garden Club Wilbraham United Church Wilbraham, MA |
Fluid Imagination - The Artful Design of Water in the Landscape |
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| Water adds many enchanting qualities to the garden. Transparent as glass, yet reflective as a mirror, water can magnify a small space or add a visual focus to a large expanse. Depending upon how it is used, water may project many moods - still, gentle, playful, agitated, turbulent or cascading. Its voice ranges from silent pools to roaring cataracts. Warren Leach explores these magical characteristics as well as construction and installation of water features in a diversity of landscape settings and styles. | |
Sunday, February 18 1:00 p.m. |
Blithewold Mansion and Gardens Bristol, Rhode Island |
Planning and Planting for Sustainable Landscapes |
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| Join Warren Leach as he offers planning and planting suggestions to support the creation of gardens and landscapes that minimize the use of limited resources. His design tips and plant recommendations will help you conserve your own precious time and energy as well as our limited natural resources such as water, soil and fossil fuels. Meet a variety of drought tolerant plants, conservation gardening practices and design techniques that will easily translate to your own home.
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Saturday, March 3 1:00 p.m. |
Connecticut Hardy Plant Society: Annual Symposium Bethany Covenant Church Berlin, CT |
Quenching Heat, Humidity & Drought Gardens that Dazzle - Withstanding the Dog Days & Onward |
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| The energy and exuberance of spring is both much anticipated and unstoppable. Buds expand and burst into colorful flowers and unfurling leaves. This spring garden spectacle of flowers and luxuriant foliage need not be fleeting. Though by August, the heat and humidity may take its toll on the gardener, a garden designed with a plant palette to withstand the dog-days and drought of summer also offers a stunning exuberance of flowers, maturing seedheads and colorful foliage. Warren Leach will explore planting design in gardens that continue to dazzle from late summer, fall and onward.
Includes Lunch and speakers, vendors and auction. $45 non-members before Feb 25; afterwards $50
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Saturday, April 7 9:00 a.m. |
Westport River Gardeners Macomber House, Main Road, Westport, MA |
Planning and Planting for Sustainable Landscapes |
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| Join Warren Leach as he offers planning and planting suggestions to support the creation of gardens and landscapes that minimize the use of limited resources. His design tips and plant recommendations will help you conserve your own precious time and energy as well as our limited natural resources such as water, soil and fossil fuels. Meet a variety of drought tolerant plants, conservation gardening practices and design techniques that will easily translate to your own home. | |
Sunday, April 8 4:00 p.m. |
The Hartland Vermont Garden Club Damon Hall, Hartland, Vermont |
Plant Combinations for a Long Season of Bloom |
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| You can enjoy colorful and fragrant flowers even in January, long before the vernal equinox and have blooms celebrate all of the other seasons; spring, summer and fall! This is not a fanciful ideal and you don’t need a heated greenhouse or conservatory. Landscape Horticulturist Warren Leach will introduce plants and planting combination to extend your garden enjoyment. | |
Wednesday, April 25 7:00 p.m. |
Longmeadow Gardeners on the Green Longmeadow, MA |
Plant Combinations for a Long Season of Bloom |
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| You can enjoy colorful and fragrant flowers even in January, long before the vernal equinox and have blooms celebrate all of the other seasons; spring, summer and fall! This is not a fanciful ideal and you don’t need a heated greenhouse or conservatory. Landscape Horticulturist Warren Leach will introduce plants and planting combination to extend your garden enjoyment. | |
Wednesday, May 9 11:00 a.m. |
Lexington Field and Garden Club The Depot Lexington, MA |
The Late Season Garden |
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The late season garden is full of dynamic contrasts - melding colorful late blooms, maturing fruit, fiery foliage and the plumes of ornamental grasses. The inertia of the season is compelling and with a little preparation a gardener can sit back and leisurely enjoy the garden fireworks. Join Landscape Horticulturist Warren Leach for an in-depth look at exciting plants to add to your late season garden display. Warren will offer design ideas using before and after images of gardens he has designed and planted. Fall is an ideal time for planting and adding glorious fall fireworks to your own garden. In Vita Sackville-West poetry we are reminded that the beauty of the garden does not end with the change of the seasons. "So Autumn's not the end, not the last rung of any ladder in the yearly climb, When that is deathly old which once was young, Since time's no ladder but a constant wheel." |
At Tranquil Lake Nursery, we offer a wide range of educational and informational talks and events at the Nursery site. See our events Calendar. Landscape horticulturist and garden designer Warren Leach is also available to give lectures for your garden group or organization. Click here for a list of recent garden talks and information on making a request.
