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11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Susan Gimblet
Tips & Techniques for Growing Winning African Violets
Lecture and demonstration. How to repot a violet: guidelines for when to repot, demonstration of how to repot, potting down a neck, removing old leaves and suckers. Propagation of African violets: how to leaf propagate, timetable for growth. General care of African violets: identifying types, soil and fertilizer, watering and lights.
2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. J.A.M. Materials
Hardscape in the Landscape
3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Julie Lapham
Foliage Arrangements with Flair
Join this award-winning floral designer and lecturer for a demonstration of arrangements featuring various foliage combinations.
10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Guy Comtoris
Backyard Hydroponic Gardening
What is Hydroponic Gardening…A brief overview and techniques used in Hydroponic Gardening. Advantages of Hydroponic Gardening. Hydroponic Gardening made simple for everyday home use.
11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Mike and Angelina Chute
Roses for New England
A special lecture based on Mike and Angelina Chute’s new book, Roses for New England: A Guide to Sustainable Rose Gardening. If you are a rose-lover who wants to learn how to grow hardy, healthy, and disease resistant roses in your home garden, this program is for you. It specifically addresses the merits and challenges of rose gardening in New England. Novice rose gardeners will find everything they need to know to successfully grow roses and experienced gardeners will utilize this program as a ready reference to enable them to grow better roses. A book signing will follow the program.
1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. Priscilla Purinton
The Ultimate Safari: Hallucinogenic and Poisonous Plants in your Garden
Some of the plants that we commonly grow in our perennial and container gardens have deadly secrets... come learn which plants require extra respect from the gardener to avoid unfortunate consequences!
1:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. Chris Fletcher, F. A. Bartlett Tree Experts
The Elephant in the Garden
(Trolley Tour of The Elms & Chepstow – meet at Bartlett Display Tent on Front Lawn)
If Newport has a tree that represents the African continent, at least in appearance, it is the European beech tree. It’s smooth gray bark, like the skin of an elephant, and its dimensions, immense in both beauty and physical dominance, make the beech a Newport landscape icon much like the iconic status of the elephant in the African landscape. Join Chris Fletcher from Bartlett Tree Experts for a trolley tour to the Elms and Chepstow to see some of Newport’s most prestigious beech trees in their many forms. These are true rarities among beeches.
2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. John Philip, Jr.
A hands on look at some of the world’s over 600 Carnivorous Plants
A look at some of the most amazing plants in the world, carnivorous plants, with the founder and president of the award-winning New England Carnivorous Plant Society. Learn about Darwin’s favorite plant, local New England plants that eat bugs, and plants from around the world that have amazed people for centuries.
3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Lynn Merrill and Robyn Spagnolo
Floral Design 101
Learn the ABC’s of flower arranging from judges Lynne Merrill and Robyn Spagnolo. Each will do demonstrations, interspersed with lively talk on conditioning, secret tips, and how to make your design ‘show ready.’ The Principles and Elements of Design will be discussed, along with what judges look for in a design. The lecture will be geared toward beginning and intermediate arrangers.
11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Rosemary Sherry-URI
Terrariums
1:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. Chris Fletcher, F. A. Bartlett Tree Experts
The Elephant in the Garden
(WALKING TOUR of Rosecliff Grounds – meet at Bartlett Display Tent on Front Lawn)
Robert Frost’s poem Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening reflects on the scene of a beautiful wood filling up with snow. The speaker in the poem doesn’t have time to stop to appreciate the fullness of its beauty. Our wood in Newport is “lovely, dark, and deep” not so much for its physical depth, although one could argue otherwise, but more for its historical and cultural depths. Join Chris Fletcher from Bartlett Tree Experts on a tour that will make you stop in appreciation for Newport’s cultural legacy of leaf and wood steeped not in snow but the cultural dimensions of the nineteenth century garden of Rosecliff.
12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. Kent Russell
Candy in the Garden - New and Unusual Landscape Plants
Kent will display a wide array of live specimen plants suitable to a variety of landscape settings.
2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. Art Scarpa
Spectacular Succulents of South Africa
One of the founders and past president of the Cactus and Succulent Society of Massachusetts, Art will have on display over 100 different potted South African succulents. He will discuss many of the plants’ unique characteristics, their native habitats and climates, how they can be grown on a sunny windowsill, and also sources.
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