Speaking & Teaching
At Tranquil Lake, we offer a wide range of educational and informational talks and events at the Nursery. In addition, landscape horticulturist and garden designer Warren Leach is also available to give lectures at your event. To invite Warren to your event and to discuss speaking fees send an e-mail to Tranquil Lake Nursery or contact Warren at 508-252-4002.
Read About Warren Leach's New Book from Timber Press
Upcoming Public Speaking Engagements
With Warren Leach
Saturday, August 23, 2025 10:30 a.m. |
Hazen Memorial Library, Shirley, MA |
Drought Tolerant Gardening and Landscaping |
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Thoughtfully designing and planting our display gardens to thrive, even in a rainfall shortage, has been an essential gardening practice at Tranquil Lake Nursery with our sandy-loam soils and the recent erratic rainfall. Planting for drought tolerance is being recognized as a sustainable paradigm for all landscapes as unlimited water use becomes prohibited and costly. Explore verdant and water-wise gardens with Landscape Horticulturist Warren Leach as he introduces a broad palette of hardy trees, shrubs and perennials. Warren will showcase several drought tolerant plant alternatives to turf grass showing before and after landscape designs. This colorful and fiery presentation of garden images will inspire your own sustainable garden. Whether you garden in sun or shade, you will take away valuable horticultural ideas for your own garden. | |
Wednesday, September 10, 2025 10:00 a.m. |
Wellesley Garden Guild Wellesley, MA |
Beyond Blooms: Creative Design with Color, Structure and Seasonal Senescence | |
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. | |
Thursday, September 11, 2025 7:00 p.m. |
Blackstone Valley Garden Club United Methodist Church, Whitinsville, MA |
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Celebrating the Winter Garden |
The winter garden is truly a low maintenance affair and a time to enjoy - no weeding, no watering and no dead-heading! The winter landscape may be quiescent but the garden need not be bleak. Plants with brightly colored berries, twigs, stems, foliage and even winter-blooming flowers shrug off the snow and cold. They bring cheer, even as the sun enters Capricorn. Landscape horticulturist Warren Leach, and author of the new book from Timber Press Plants for the Winter Garden, will showcase gardens he has designed that celebrate the winter season as well as planting design ideas for your own garden. | |
Saturday, September 20, 2025 10:00 a.m. to noon |
Stockbridge, MA |
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Celebrating the Winter Garden |
The winter garden is truly a low maintenance affair and a time to enjoy - no weeding, no watering and no dead-heading! The winter landscape may be quiescent but the garden need not be bleak. Plants with brightly colored berries, twigs, stems, foliage and even winter-blooming flowers shrug off the snow and cold. They bring cheer, even as the sun enters Capricorn. Landscape horticulturist Warren Leach, and author of the new book from Timber Press Plants for the Winter Garden, will showcase gardens he has designed that celebrate the winter season as well as planting design ideas for your own garden. | |
$25 for members and $40 for non-members Click here to register | |
Thursday, September 25, 2025 6:00 p.m. |
Essex Library Association Essex, CT |
Beyond Blooms: Creative Design with Color, Structure and Seasonal Senescence | |
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. | |
Tuesday, September 30, 2025 6:30 p.m. |
Lakeville Garden Club Lakeville Senior Center, Lakeville, MA |
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Celebrating the Winter Garden |
The winter garden is truly a low maintenance affair and a time to enjoy - no weeding, no watering and no dead-heading! The winter landscape may be quiescent but the garden need not be bleak. Plants with brightly colored berries, twigs, stems, foliage and even winter-blooming flowers shrug off the snow and cold. They bring cheer, even as the sun enters Capricorn. Landscape horticulturist Warren Leach, and author of the new book from Timber Press Plants for the Winter Garden, will showcase gardens he has designed that celebrate the winter season as well as planting design ideas for your own garden. | |
Tuesday, October 14, 2025 11:00 a.m. |
Lyme Garden Club Lyme Firehouse on Route 156, Lyme, CT |
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Celebrating the Winter Garden |
The winter garden is truly a low maintenance affair and a time to enjoy - no weeding, no watering and no dead-heading! The winter landscape may be quiescent but the garden need not be bleak. Plants with brightly colored berries, twigs, stems, foliage and even winter-blooming flowers shrug off the snow and cold. They bring cheer, even as the sun enters Capricorn. Landscape horticulturist Warren Leach, and author of the new book from Timber Press Plants for the Winter Garden, will showcase gardens he has designed that celebrate the winter season as well as planting design ideas for your own garden. | |
Wednesday, October 15, 2025 10:00 a.m. |
Scituate Garden Club GAR Hall, Scituate, MA |
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Celebrating the Winter Garden |
The winter garden is truly a low maintenance affair and a time to enjoy - no weeding, no watering and no dead-heading! The winter landscape may be quiescent but the garden need not be bleak. Plants with brightly colored berries, twigs, stems, foliage and even winter-blooming flowers shrug off the snow and cold. They bring cheer, even as the sun enters Capricorn. Landscape horticulturist Warren Leach, and author of the new book from Timber Press Plants for the Winter Garden, will showcase gardens he has designed that celebrate the winter season as well as planting design ideas for your own garden. | |
Wednesday, October 22, 2025 6:30 p.m. (Pacific Time) |
Northwest Horticultural Society Seattle, WA (ZOOM Presentation) |
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Celebrating the Winter Garden |
The winter garden is truly a low maintenance affair and a time to enjoy - no weeding, no watering and no dead-heading! The winter landscape may be quiescent but the garden need not be bleak. Plants with brightly colored berries, twigs, stems, foliage and even winter-blooming flowers shrug off the snow and cold. They bring cheer, even as the sun enters Capricorn. Landscape horticulturist Warren Leach, and author of the new book from Timber Press Plants for the Winter Garden, will showcase gardens he has designed that celebrate the winter season as well as planting design ideas for your own garden. | |
Thursday, November 6, 2025 6:30 p.m. |
The Village Garden Club Boxford, MA |
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Celebrating the Winter Garden |
The winter garden is truly a low maintenance affair and a time to enjoy - no weeding, no watering and no dead-heading! The winter landscape may be quiescent but the garden need not be bleak. Plants with brightly colored berries, twigs, stems, foliage and even winter-blooming flowers shrug off the snow and cold. They bring cheer, even as the sun enters Capricorn. Landscape horticulturist Warren Leach, and author of the new book from Timber Press Plants for the Winter Garden, will showcase gardens he has designed that celebrate the winter season as well as planting design ideas for your own garden. |
Read More about Warren's New Book | |
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Perennials, Grasses, Shrubs, and Trees to add Interest in the Cold and Snow
by Warren Leach Timber Press Available November 5, 2024 ISBN 978-1-60469-926-5 |
Read Articles by Warren Leach | |
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Cold-Hard Containers
Rugged shrubs in permanent pots add life to the frozen landscape
by Warren Leach Horticulture Magazine November / December 2024 pp. 26 - 33 article excerpted from Plants for the Winter Garden |
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Geometry Makes a Garden Better
by Warren Leach Fine Gardening Magazine April 2023 pp. 46 - 55 |
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For more information or to request a speaking engagement, send an e-mail with request details to Tranquil Lake Nursery