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The 2008 Annual Oklahoma Horticultural Society Lecture Series

Presents

the internationally renowned author and lecturer,

COLE BURRELL

COLE'S BOOKS WILL BE ON SALE AT THESE EVENTS AND AVAILABLE FOR SIGNING

MARCH 1, 2008 at the Tulsa Garden Center, 3:00 PM
DESIGN IDEAS AND PLANT COMBINATIONS FOR WINTER GARDENS Winter gardens provide a respite from the gray chill of winter. We definitely want a comfortable place outdoors to relax, but we also want a place to grow the myriad winter-interest plants such as daphnes, hellebores, and minor bulbs that excite us and connect us to the natural world. This lecture focuses on the unique challenges of creating winter interest with both living and built elements and presents a variety of approaches to fashioning plant combinations that thrive under nature’s canopy or artful garden structures.
MARCH 2, 2008 at the OKC Zoo Educational Building, 2:30 PM OHS general meeting at 1:00 PM
PERENNIALS WITH PANACHE: CHOICE NEW PLANTS FOR AMERICAN GARDENS Specialty Nurseries from coast to coast are bursting with new introductions originating in gardens and wild areas across the globe. From collector's plants to tomorrow's mainstays, we will explore an exciting palette of plants for woodlands, beds and borders, as well as ways to incorporate them into the garden's tapestry.

MARCH 1, 2008 at the Tulsa Garden Center, 3:00 PM

DESIGN IDEAS AND PLANT COMBINATIONS FOR WINTER GARDENS

Winter gardens provide a respite from the gray chill of winter. We definitely want a comfortable place outdoors to relax, but we also want a place to grow the myriad winter-interest plants such as daphnes, hellebores, and minor bulbs that excite us and connect us to the natural world. This lecture focuses on the unique challenges of creating winter interest with both living and built elements and presents a variety of approaches to fashioning plant combinations that thrive under nature’s canopy or artful garden structures.

MARCH 2, 2008 at the OKC Zoo Educational Building, 2:30 PM

OHS general meeting at 1:00 PM

PERENNIALS WITH PANACHE: CHOICE NEW PLANTS FOR AMERICAN GARDENS

Specialty Nurseries from coast to coast are bursting with new introductions originating in gardens and wild areas across the globe. From collector's plants to tomorrow's mainstays, we will explore an exciting palette of plants for woodlands, beds and borders, as well as ways to incorporate them into the garden's tapestry.

C. Colston Burrell is an avid and lifelong gardener, garden designer, award-winning author, photographer, naturalist, and teacher. He grows all the hellebore species and innumerable hybrids alongside natives and other treasures in his garden in the Blue Ridge Mountains near Charlottesville, Virginia.

Cole holds a master's degree in horticulture and has combined his interests in botany, ecology, and design with a Master of Landscape Architecture degree from the University of Minnesota. He is a lecturer in the College of Architecture and Landscape Architecture at the University of Virginia and principal of Native Landscape Design and Restoration.

He is the author of many garden books, and has twice won of the American Horticulture Society book award, in 2007 for Hellebores: A Comprehensive Guide and 1998 for A Gardener's Encyclopedia of Wildflowers. Cole is a contributing editor for Horticulture and frequently writes for Landscape Architecture, American Gardener, and the Brooklyn Botanical Garden. His writing reflects a love of plants, and he champions their use in artistically designed, environmentally friendly gardens. Cole lectures internationally on design, plants, and ecology.