Weekend garden events
Photo credit: Baltimore Sun/Gene Sweeney
Valley View Farms in Cockeysville
Saturday
Perennial Gardening Calendar, 9:00 a.m.: Perennials benefit from seasonal maintenance to keep them coming back beautifully year after year. Learn proper timing for all sorts of tasks like dividing daylilies and hostas, adding organics into the garden, dead-heading various plants for continual bloom and much more. The speaker will be our own Jan Gannon.
Cool Weather Vegetables and Herbs, 11 a.m.: It's official; spring arrives tomorrow! Cold hardy and perennial vegetables can be planted now. Learn where to place plants and seeds in the garden for optimal harvest come summer. Free Herb and Vegetable Planting Guides will be available at today's seminar. Carrie Engel and Joann Weber will lead today's class.
Homestead Gardens in Davidsonville
Saturday
Tree Care with Master Arborist: Bradley Seay of Bartlett Trees, 10 a.m.
Landscaping for the Average Joe, Noon: Scott Daly, Merchandising Manager and Landscape Designer, discusses the basic necessities for any landscape.
Fairy Gardens, 2 p.m.: Learn how to create these small scale gardens
Sunday
Cool Weather Vegetables 11 a.m.
Cooking with Mediterranean Herbs, noon: Demonstration and tasting with Local Foodie and Homestead Gardens blogger, Rita Calvert.
Care of Statuary and Fountains, 2 p.m.; With Susan Betts of Campania Garden Decor.
Saturday
11 a.m. Garden Rant's Susan Harris, founder of the Lawn Reform Coalition, talks about lawn reform, with a photo history of the conversion of her lawn to a garden. She will also discuss natural lawn care, more sustainable types of turfgrasses
