Spend an educational and fun filled day at Tranquil Lake Nursery in Rehoboth, Massachusetts on Saturday, October 1st from 10 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Learn new techniques that will help you to hone your gardening skills and improve the look and care of your own garden this fall and in the year to come. A variety of garden professional will share their knowledge and tools of the trade with you through workshops, hands-on activities, garden talks and demonstrations.

Learn how and when to divide perennials and prune shrubs, select trees for their fall and winter landscape interest or to attract butterflues and increase biodiversity or select from the top ten list of must have garden plants. Experience the fine art of Japanese-style garden arranging, renovating a mixed border, building a garden fire pit or gabion garden seat.

The nursery also has more than 10 acres of daylilies and Siberian and Japanese Iris in the field. Some of the late blooming daylilies will still be in bloom at the end of September. Tranquil Lake Nursery offers a diverse selection of perennials, herbs, shrubs, grasses and tender perennials. Bring a picnic lunch; we'll provide the drinks.

Schedule of Workshops and Demonstrations

10:00 a.m.       Artful Pruning of Your Trees and Shrubs
                    Jimmy Riddle, Tranquil Lake Nursery landscape crew

10:30 a.m.       Planting for a Colorful Fall and Winter Garden
                    Warren Leach, Landscape horticulturist and co-owner Tranquil Lake Nursery

11:30 noon      Gardening for Butterflies and Biodiversity
                    Debi Hogan, horticulturist and butterfly gardener

12:00 p.m.       Designing and Constructing a Garden Fire Pit
                    Jimmy Riddle and Warren Leach, Tranquil Lake Nursery landscape crew

12:30 p.m.       Designing and Planting Tips for Renovating a Mixed Border
                    Warren Leach, landscape horticulturist and co-owner Tranquil Lake Nursery

1:30 p.m.        Creative Arrangements for the Fall Garden with a Japanese Flair
                    Gilbert Moore, Japanese flower arranger, long time gardener and nursery friend

2:00 p.m.        Building a Gabion Garden Seat
                    Jimmy Riddle, Tranquil Lake Nursery landscape crew

2:30 p.m.        Dividing Tips and Techniques for the Fall Garden
                    Philip Boucher, horticulturist and co-owner of Tranquil Lake Nursery

3:00 p.m.        Top Ten Must have Plants for Your Garden
                    Warren Leach, landscape horticulturist and co-owner Tranquil Lake Nursery

Bring a picnic lunch; we'll provide the drinks.

Plan to spend the whole day and learn how to improve the look of your garden this autumn, while you also get ready for the winter ahead and the spring to follow. You will also have the opportunity to wander among the gardens at Tranquil Lake Nursery, where you will see a diverse variety of perennials, grasses, shrubs and vines with late season interest. The gardens include a number of perennial borders, mixed perennial and shrub gardens, an ornamental vegetable garden, a thyme bench, container herb garden, an entry garden, an ornamental grass garden, a purple garden designed to attract hummingbirds, spectacular container plantings brimming with annuals and perennials, a pond-side water garden, a bog garden, a pool with a water rill, a dry-scree garden and a new reservoir garden with a stone wall that overflows to a drip fountain. All plants discussed during the day will be available for sale.

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Garden Design Day

October 8

The spring Garden Design Days were so poular that we are bringing them back for the summer and fall. This is a great opportunity to meet one-on-one with garden designer Warren Leach to discuss planting solutions for a garden problem. Does your garden need design finesse? Are you looking for planting solutions for a problem garden area? Or, do you just need to decide where to start?

On Saturday, October 8th from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., you can register for a half hour special garden consultation with our own talented horticulturist and garden designer Warren Leach and he will help you come up with a planting design solutions. Bring photos of your garden area and rough measurements of your site. Warren will sketch out solutions and provide a suggested plant list.

Preregistration is required and must be accompanied by a $50 registration fee. This fee is redeemable for plants on the day of the consult. Consultation slots will be filled on a first call - first serve basis, so call and reserve your design time now.

Tranquil Lake Nursery also offers custom landscape design and installation.  For those who prefer to do the work themselves, but just need a little guidance, you can also request a private garden consultation in your own garden.  A limited number of one hour consultations are available with Warren Leach for a fee.  These are generally schedule on Tuesdays and Thursdays at the end of the day around 5:00 or 5:30 p.m.  Send us an e-mail to request an available appointment.