The 2010 Annual Oklahoma Horticultural Society Lecture Series

Presents

the internationally renowned author and lecturer,

TOVAH MARTIN

photographer, Susan Johann

One of this country's best-known garden writers and lecturers, Tovah Martin is the author of The New Terrarium, Tasha Tudor's Garden, Tasha Tudor's Heirloom Crafts, View from a Sketchbook, Garden Whimsy, Heirloom Flowers and several other books on gardening. Her articles are often featured in Country Gardens, Garden Design, La Vie Claire, Nature's Garden, Country Living, Cottages & Gardens, and Horticulture as well as many other publications. She has been a guest on several television programs, and has served as editorial producer of the PBS television series Cultivating Life. In 2008, Tovah was the recipient of The Garden Club of America's Sarah Chapman Francis Medal for outstanding literary achievement.

Terrariums & You" -   Sat., Feb. 13, 2010, Tulsa Garden Center, 7 PM

     When you need nature close by, houseplants are the answer.  And if you've always yearned to host houseplant, but failed - - this lecture will come to the rescue.  The answer is crystal clear:  Class can serve as a solution to bond botany and you.  With the aid of a terrarium, you can host nature almost anywhere - - in your parched apartment or your dilm office cubicle.  In addition, terrariums can be the ideal venue to bring nature into children's lives. These "small worlds" introduce beauty, botany, whimsy, sophistication, and sparkle into any decor, but these projects are also surprisingly inexpensive.  Not only will we share all sorts of recycling ideas for enlisting everything from bases to cake stand, fishbowls, lemonade pitchers, cookie jars, etc., for growing plants and showcasing nature, but we'll demonstrate precisely how to work with glass enclosures of all types to incorporate green into your life, no matter how busy your schedule might be.

"Trowels & Tomorrow:  Garden Stewardship" - Sunday, Feb. 14, 2010, OKC Zoo Educational Center (East zoo parking lot) 2:00 PM tentative

     The beauty of gardens is that they mature. This is a lecture about horticultural preservation, stewardship, and how gardeners grapple with change. We address the challenges of bringing landscapes into the next generation. Whether you have inherited a landscape or crated a garden over decades and now face mature trees and shrubs that require preemptive pruning or relocation,
we explore the issues great and small.  We tackle such sticky wickets as rehabilitating overgrown boxwood hedges and coping with plants that were once considered exotics but have now been unmasked as invasives. This is lecture about bringing yesterday's gardens into tomorrow and the issues that we all face in this process. But we also talk about plant preservation and heirloom varieties, honoring the people who have worked to preserve vintage ornamentals so those plants with a past can become the superstars of future gardens.