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FALL GARDENING FESTIVAL

Saturday, October 4, 2008

10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Free and open to the public

Spend an educational and fun filled day at Tranquil Lake Nursery in Rehoboth, Massachusetts on Saturday, October 4^th 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. We have invited a variety of speakers and exhibitors to share their knowledge and tools of the trade with you through workshops, hands-on activities, garden talks and demonstrations related to the Theme: Facilitating the Mixed Border.

Learn how and when to divide perennials, prune shrubs, propagate tender perennials, harvest and dry herbs and put the garden to bed for the winter. Experience the fine art of stone paving, add a water feature and make hypertufa troughs and other containers. There will also be workshops on perennials and shrubs for fall and winter interest, planting for spring color and spring bulbs.

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 pond-side water garden, a bog garden, a dry-scree garden and more.

 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. For more information or a schedule, call the nursery at (508) 252-4002.

At 10:00 a.m., Warren Leach, landscape designer and co-owner of Tranquil Lake Nursery and Landscape Crew members, Tom Driscoll and Craig Wheeler will offer a how-to garden demonstration on "Constructing a Rain Garden." They will demonstrate simple construction techniques for capturing and directing rainfall that will sustain a new garden. Learn how to utilize your watershed, whether it is runoff from the surface of your lawn, driveway or roof. Water can be saved and returned to the environment, while being used by ornamental plantings.

Warren Leach, landscape designer and co-owner of Tranquil Lake Nursery will offer planting and design suggestions in "Creating an Entry Garden filled with Shrubs, Perennials, Pots and More" . He will highlight plants with for colorful flowers, fragrance and year-round ornamental value, emphasizing their cultural needs and presenting design ideas for installing them with an artistic eye, creating sensational entry garden.

Join the Tranquil Lake Nursery Landscape Crew will show you how to build a stone sitting wall, locating it neat the new rain garden. Learn stone wall building techniques and concrete casting in their demonstration "Stone Wall & Seat Construction." This workshop will be on-going throughout the day.

Gilbert Moore has been gardening at his home in Slatersville, Rhode Island for nearly half a century. He will walk you through the gardens at Tranquil Lake Nursery offering tips for over-wintering annuals and tender perennials, as he shows you how to take cuttings and bring plants indoors, during his demonstration "Propagating and Saving Tender Perennials and Annuals."  Participants will have the opportunity to take their own cuttings to root at home.

With ten acres of daylilies at peak bloom, the daylily flowers are always a hit at Tranquil Lake Nursery, where the fields and gardens feature more than 3,600 varieties that bloom from May to frost. Tranquil Lake Nursery co-owner Philip Boucher will share his love and knowledge of these special flowers in "Favorite Late Season Daylilies at Tranquil Lake Nursery." Learn about the many assets and characteristics of these beautiful and diverse summer garden essential and meet some of Phil’s favorites for the late season. You are sure to meet a daylily or two that you must have for your own.

Debora Aldo, landscape designer, horticulturist and principal of Pietre Dure Design in Connecticut will showcase materials and demonstrate techniques in "Designing and Creating Garden Mosaics." Deb designed a paved dragonfly mosaic of glass at the nursery several years ago, which is very popular with the many visitors to our Silver garden. She will show you how to create your own mosaic as she creates a new design in one of the gardens at the nursery.

Succulents are wonder plants that can withstand bright sunlight, with little supplemental watering in the garden. They are also ideal plants for the sunny window in the office or at home, that adapt well to a variety of temperatures with little care. Debi Hogan has been collecting succulents for twenty years. She will discuss how to select and grow "Favorite Succulents for the Sunny Window" She will share the many reasons she admires members of the Echeveria, Agave, Aloe, Euphorbia, Sanseveria and more.

Warren Leach, garden designer and co-owner of Tranquil Lake Nursery will offer a garden talk on "Combining Perennials, Shrubs, Vines and Ground Covers in the Mixed Border." Warren will focus on plant combinations that have beauty all year. Learn how to combine flowers, fall foliage and colorful twigs and fruits to brighten your landscape.

Gilbert Moore will repeat his popular garden talk and demonstration "Propagating and Saving Tender Perennials and Annuals. Walk through the nursery gardens, learn tips for overwintering and take some cuttings to root at home.

Warren Leach, horticulturists and co-owner of Tranquil Lake Nursery will offer a demonstration on the techniques for "Planting the Rain Garden." He will demonstrate digging in soil amendments, preparing the planting bed and planting perennials and woody ornamental. The end result will be a new mixed border display garden, water and all. Warren will move to "Planting Sedums & Succulents in the Wall’.  

The day will as Philip Boucher, co-owner of Tranquil Lake Nursery will take you step-by-step through the techniques for "Dividing Perennials and Other Fall Chores and Garden tasks to Prepare for Winter." This is a terrific opportunity to increase the number of plants in your garden while also improving the vigor and bloom of your plants, as you learn how to divide established clumps of Hosta, Iris, daylilies and many other perennials. Then learn some fall gardening practices for good garden hygiene, pest control, culture and beauty. You will learn what to cut back and when, how to compost, what plants to leave standing for winter interest, mulching and more. You will also learn how to prune, which plants to protect from winter cold, how to overwinter containers and clean up the garden for winter.

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