2007 Help for the Home Gardener Lecture Series Begins January 25 at Delaware Center for Horticulture

Explore a variety of gardening topics at the 2007 Help for the Home Gardener lecture series beginning Tuesday, January 25th at 7 p.m. at the Delaware Center for Horticulture. The cost is $10 per lecture or $40 for the series of 5 lectures for DCH members and $15 per lecture or $60 for the series for non-members. Call (302) 658-6262, ext. 22 to reserve your place or visit the Center’s website at www.dehort.org for an event registration form. 

David Culp, world-traveled plant collector and breeder, kicks off the series with a presentation titled “A Sense of Place,” sponsored by J. Franklin Styer Nurseries.  Culp will give a virtual tour of his home garden, Brandywine Cottage.  He’ll explain how he developed a 200-year-old farmhouse on a neglected site and the value of a garden that reflects its site.  Culp is also a nationally known lecturer and is an instructor in Longwood Gardens’ certificate program.

The Help for the Home Gardener lecture series continues with:

Andrew Bunting
“New Plant Introductions and Their Uses in the Garden”
Thursday, February 1, 7:00 p.m.
Co-sponsored by Always the Garden & DCH
Always looking for the newest addition for the collection, Andrew has been Curator at the Scott Arboretum since 1993.  A teacher as well as owner of the landscape design/installation firm, Fine Garden Creations, he will share his firsthand experience and knowledge.

Tomasz Aniśko
"Plant Exploration: Mountain Tops, Natural Areas and Exotic Plants"
Wednesday, February 7, 7:00 p.m.
Sponsored by Longwood Gardens
Dr. Anisko, Curator of Plants at Longwood Gardens, participated in seven of the expeditions he describes in his new book, Plant Exploration for Longwood Gardens.  Fifty years of joint Longwood and USDA expeditions have led to the introduction of more than 13,000 plants.

Rick Lewandowski
"Spicing Up Your Garden with Native Wildflowers"
Wednesday, February 21, 7:00 p.m.
Sponsored by The Garden Club of Wilmington Community Projects, Inc.
Join Rick, director of the Mt. Cuba Center, for a journey through the world of common and not-so-common native wildflowers just waiting to grace your garden and broaden its pleasure.

Adam Levine and Rob Cardillo
“Great Gardens of the Philadelphia Area”
Wednesday, February 28, 7:00 p.m.
Co-sponsored by Wallace Landscape Associates and Garden Valley Nursery
Join author Adam Levine and photographer Rob Cardillo for a beautiful photographic tour of the area's garden jewels featured in their new book, Guide to Great Gardens of the Philadelphia Region, which features DCH.

The mission of the Delaware Center for Horticulture is to improve the quality of life in Delaware by promoting knowledge and appreciation of gardening, horticulture and conservation.  Visit www.dehort.org for more information about Help for the Home Gardener and other DCH events.  The Center is located one block northeast of Trolley Square and Delaware Avenue on North Dupont Street (behind Happy Harry’s).