Garden Variety: Weekend garden events: A benefit for Brookside Gardens - Mid-Atlantic gardening: Tips and pictures on flowers, vegetables, public gardens, composting and farmers’ markets

The Baltimore Sun > Life > Home & Garden > Garden Variety

« University of Maryland Extention: Garden Q&A | Main | Square-foot Gardening »

June 2, 2011

Weekend garden events: A benefit for Brookside Gardens

Brookside Gardens

Photo courtesy of Brookside Gardens

Behnke Nurseries in Beltsville

Saturday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

First annual Garden Social to benefit Friends of Brookside Gardens. Regional garden clubs will be on hand to describe what they do and answer your plant questions. There will also be a plant swap -- so bring a plant from your garden -- at 11:30 a.m., as well as raffles and a silent auction featuring the services of harpist Jim Dronenburg and photographer Daniel Weil. At 3 p.m., David Culp of Sunny Border Nurseries will lecture on perennials. All proceeds will go to support Brookside, a public garden in Wheaton.

Posted by Susan Reimer at 2:13 PM | Permalink
Categories: Garden events

About Susan Reimer

Susan Reimer has spent 16 years writing about raising kids - among other topics - in her column for The Baltimore Sun. And every time son Joseph or daughter Jessie passed another milestone - driver's license, college, wedding or a move to a new military duty station - she has planted another garden. Now she will be writing about those gardens - and yours - here on Garden Variety.

Susan isn't an expert gardener, but she wasn't an expert mother, either. Both - the kids and the gardens - seem to be doing well in spite of her.

She lives in Annapolis with her husband, Gary Mihoces, who loves to cut his grass but has noticed that there seems to be less of it every time the kids pass another milestone.

Follow @susanreimer on Twitter