Garden Club Program
Garden Club: Managing Stormwater Runoff and Increasing Biodiversity with RainScapes
Sunday, November 10, 2:00-4:00 pm
Free Admissions
Come and learn about how to evaluate your home landscape for stormwater runoff opportunities and what kinds of solutions have worked in Montgomery County! The focus will be on showing predominantly native RainScapes gardens that are managing stormwater and providing beautiful biodiversity benefits too.
The featured speaker Ann English, PLA, ASLA, LEED® AP BD+C, CBLP 1 &2( D+I), has a life-long love of plants and nature. Her design work has been in the private, non-profit and governmental sectors as well as the academic, with focus on plants, designing with plants and how they perform in the environments in which they are planted, with emphasis on stormwater management. ?She has degrees in American History/ Architectural History (BA, Penn) Regional Planning (MRP, Penn State) and Landscape Architecture (MLA, UGA) and is the manager of the Montgomery County RainScapes Program of the Department of Environmental Protection and has been gardening since she first planted tulips and zinnias with her father at age 5.
Light refreshments will be served.
There will be a plant sale table managed by the Garden Club.
Garden Club: Fig Fruit, Cultivation and History
Sunday, February 9, 2:00-4:00 pm
Fig is a peculiar and underestimated fruit with a very diverse and rich history. For over millions of years Fig Trees (over 750 species) shaped our world, influenced our evolution, nourished our bodies and fed our imagination. They are mentioned in every religion and, further, built a vital bridge between scientific and faith-based views.
This presentation will cover the history, botany, and biology of the fig fruit. It will also include cultivation of the plant, types of fig suitable for our area (Zone 7), and a short review of the medicinal, nutritional, and culinary aspects of the fig fruit.
Speaker, Dr. Jafar Vossoughi, is a retired Bioengineering Professor and Master Gardener.
Light refreshments will be served.
Hosted by the Sandy Spring Museum Garden Club, a plant sale will be held concurrently.