Green Bay Botanical Garden Fall Symposium
Elegant Silvers and Second Season Design
Saturday, October 11, 2008 • 9:00 a.m. — 3:00 p.m.
at Green Bay Botanical Garden
 

Symposium Schedule 9:00 Registration Opens 9:30 Welcome and Introduction 9:40 "Elegant Silvers – Striking Plants for Every Garden" Karen Bussolini, Garden Photographer 11:00 "Not the Same Old Same Old" Dave Wanninger, Beaver Creek Nursery 12:15 Lunch 1:15 "The Unsung Season: Gardens in Winter" Karen Bussolini, Garden Photographer 2:30 Book sales and signing 3:00 Adjourn "Designing with Elegant Silvers" Karen Bussolini, Garden Photographer Silvers are the shimmering chameleons of the plant kingdom. The beauty and drought-tolerance of familiar downy silvers such as lamb’s ears and artemisias have long made them favorites in the herb garden and perennial border. Elegant Silvers is an exploration of the entire range of these distinctive plants, from grey to almost white to icy blue, including grasses, succulents, tiny alpines, soaring evergreens, herbs, shrubs, perennials, native plants, tropicals and subtropicals. Karen will discuss and show beautiful slides of the many inventive ways gardeners across the United States have used these stalwart plants in containers, borders or the larger landscape. She pays special attention to the use of regionally appropriate silvers, protective adaptations, using color and texture to create exciting combinations and historical uses from medieval times to modern xeriscaping. Karen Bussolini has been a gardener as long as she can remember. She trained as a painter and had a career as an architectural photographer before specializing in garden photography, writing and lecturing. Her photographs have appeared in Garden Design, Horticulture, House Beautiful, House and Garden, Traditional Home, Better Homes and Gardens, The American Gardener, Perennials, Native Plants, Organic Gardening, Country Living Gardener, McCall’s, Home, Metropolitan Home, The New York Times and in many other magazines and books published throughout the world. She is known for her writing on gardening from personal experience. She was sole photographer for five books: The Homeowner’s Complete Tree and Shrub Manual (Storey Publishing 2007), Elegant Silvers: Striking Plants for Every Garden (Timber Press 2005), which she co-wrote with Jo Ann Gardner, The Unsung Season: Gardens and Gardeners in Winter (Houghton Mifflin, 1995), A Country Garden for Your Backyard (Rodale Press 1993), Backyard Design: Making the Most of the Space Around Your House (Bulfinch Press, 1991, 1998). When photographing, she sees the world through the eyes of a gardener and painter. Although she travels far and wide, her roots are sunk deeply into the soil of a deer-infested mountainside in South Kent, Connecticut, where she gardens and lives with her family. "Not the Same Old Same Old: New, Better Trees and Shrubs for the Residential Garden" Dave Wanninger, Beaver Creek Nursery Sometimes it seems that every landscape has the same ten shrubs or ornamental trees. There are some superior selections of underused shrubs and trees – many with colorful leaves, long lasting fall color, and colorful fruit. We will be talking about some plants that might new to you, as well as some improved varieties of plants you may already be using. Dave Wanninger is chief horticulturist at Beaver Creek Nursery, a wholesale nursery located south of Clinton, Wisconsin. Klehm’s Song Sparrow Farm is the retail mail order/internet sister company of Beaver Creek Nursery. Dave has previously operated a landscaping company and was the nursery manager at a large independent garden center. He is also a longtime Instructor in the Horticulture and Landscaping program at Blackhawk Technical College in his hometown of Janesville, Wisconsin. When not gardening, he enjoys reading, bicycling and fine wines, although usually not at the same time. "The Unsung Season: Gardens in Winter" Karen Bussolini, Garden Photographer Consider the possibilities of winter as Karen discusses elements that lend interest way past the first frost - form, line, color, texture, plays of light and shadow, movement, sound, birds, surprises that happen when you provide reasons to be outside. See examples of how to combine form with color, create form with lines, and use plants with interesting seedheads, color and persistent foliage for added interest in your garden. Karen will also teach you to see winter in the garden as a transition, showing plants in their glory from late fall to early spring. Autumn berries and seedheads shift to colored and textured barks, needles and buds during the winter, and spring brings welcome early blooms. Location The Unsung Season: GBBG Fall Symposium will be held at Green Bay Botanical Garden, 2600 Larsen Road, Green Bay. Event attendees will be able to visit the Garden as part of the symposium. Registration To register for the symposium use the mail in registration form, register on-line, or call 490-9457. Registration and payment must occur by October 3rd. There is limited space available: you will be informed if the symposium fills and you are placed on a waiting list.  Program Cost The cost of the symposium is $45 for members and $59 for non-members. The cost includes all speakers, demonstrations and handouts. Lunch Bag lunches will be available from Harmony Café, a program of Goodwill NCW, for $10. Lunches include choice of sandwich (roasted turkey roll, grilled roast beef, or veggie wrap), chips, cookie, and beverage. Please include sandwich choice on registration form. Registrants may also bring a bag lunch or purchase meals that day from nearby establishments. Late Registration Registrations received on or after October 3rd are subject to a $5 late registration fee. Refunds Refund requests made before October 3rd will be honored, subject to a $5 processing fee. Mail Registrations to: GBBG Fall Symposium PO Box 12644 Green Bay WI 54307-2644
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