Next meeting - Sunday May 19th
2PM at the Aspen Hotel
Master Gardener Brenda Adams will speak on garden design. 
Plant Sale Monday May 27th

 Garden designer, Brenda Adams, will talk with us about how to create beautiful gardens on Sunday, May 19, 2024

A former HGC President for eight years and Board member for 13, Brenda Adams has been a stalwart of the Homer Garden Club for decades. She is also the author of the acclaimed books, Cool Plants for Cold Climates: A Garden Designer’s Perspective, winner of the Garden Writers’ Association 2018 Silver Award, and There’s a Moose in My Garden: Designing Gardens in Alaska and the Far North.

As the international-award-winning designer for Gardens By Design, Brenda created over 260 unique gardens for residential and commercial clients. She is a long-time master gardener as well as a frequent guest on radio. A sought-after speaker, she has appeared throughout Alaska and around the country including the Northwest Flower and Garden Show. During two recent springs, she taught an in-depth, 6-week class on design to the Advanced Master Gardeners Anchorage. She has also taught garden design classes for the University of Alaska and for the Cooperative Extension.

Join us as Brenda shares many of the techniques and tricks she developed over years of gardening in Homer at different elevations and in different conditions. These methods will help you create unique and special gardens. Brenda’s talk will cover how to evaluate plants for all their visual attributes – foliage, flowers, seeds pods, bark, texture, fragrance, and more. Then she will explain the utility and dependability attributes of different plants and why they are important. Among them are early and late season bloom, appeal to pollinators, winter display, and a long season of bloom. With all these tools in hand, she will lead us through a straight forward way to combine these great plants into lovely gardens that will bring you pleasure for years.

A few of her books will be available at the May meeting. They can also be purchased at the Homer Bookstore, on Amazon and other on-line venues. Or if you already have one and would like it signed, bring it to the meeting!