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Design a Native Mixed Border Garden


Learn to artfully combine shrubs and small trees with a selection of perennial and annual herbaceous plants, to create a border garden with four-seasons of beauty. Basic design principles can be applied to planning and planting a mixed border of any size and shape. Also surveys a range of native North American plants that thrive in borders. We’ll discuss those “difficult” areas where your plants never seem to thrive and discuss which plants will do well there.


Sunday, September 14, 2-4:30 p.m.

Location: Nasami Farm Nursery, Whately, MA
Course Code: hor1517
Instructor: James McSweeney
Fee: $30 (Member) / $35 (Nonmember)
Limit: 16   Credit: Elective--all certificates