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Published on: 9/15/2007
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enlarge Provided by Steve SilkThis formal garden shows the benefits of using strong shapes.Garden photographer Steve Silk will give a lecture on which combinations work best.
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What: A Gathering of Gardeners 2007, featuring horticulturalist Robert Herman of Naugatuck Valley Community College in Westbury, Conn., and Steve Silk of Fine Gardening magazine.
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The event's second featured speaker is Steven Silk, a writer and contributing editor for Fine Gardening magazine.An award-winning photographer, Silk has also appeared on HGTV's Gardening by the Yard, and will give two lectures throughout the day.
The first, titled "Crazy Mixed-up Border" involves the use of fruit trees and tropical plants in a border garden, mixed in with the traditional perennials, trees and shrubs.
"Anything goes," says Silk."It's the kitchen-sink approach to planting a border."
Silk's second lecture, "Garden Partners: Combinations for Every Garden," focuses on garden design.Rather than emphasizing specific plants, the discussion will involve plants' characteristics - their forms, textures and colors - and which of these characteristics go well with each other.
"To me, the heart of garden design is making good plant combinations," says Silk."Plants that complement each other can make a whole that's greater than the sum of the parts."
Both lectures will feature Silk's renowned photography and will begin at 9:15 a.m. and 1 p.m.