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Meeting Programs

Meeting Programs

All meetings take place at Planting Fields. Driving directions can be found on the Planting Fields website.

 

SUNDAY, JANUARY 27, 2008
1:00pm: Jenny Ulsheimer
Director of Horticulture
Clark Botanical Garden
Vegetable Gardening:
Winter, Spring and All Summer Long
2:00pm: Conrad Decker
Arborist with Bartlett Tree
Caring for Trees from the Roots Up

 

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2008
1:00pm: Bob Weschler
LIHS member
Propagation, Organic Gardening
Part 2
2:00pm: Bobby Scherer
Scherer Water Gardens
Wonderful Water Gardens

 

SUNDAY, MARCH 30, 2008
1:00pm: John Deignan
LIHS member
Master Gardener, Nassau CCE
Pruning
2:00pm: Larry Weaner
President, Larry Weaner Landscape Design
Creating Natural Landscapes in the Real World

 

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30, 2008
7:00pm: Bruce Feller
President, NY Chapter of the
American Rhodendron Society
Planting Tips to Succeed
with Rhodendrons
8:00pm: Raymond Lackey
Sweet Pines Apiary
Honeybees: Angels of Agriculture

 

WEDNESDAY, MAY 28, 2008
7:00pm: MEMBERS SPRING PLANT SALE
8:00pm: Tamson Yeh
Entomologist with Cornell Cooperative Extension, Suffolk
Good Bugs, Bad Bugs

 

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 25, 2008
7:00pm: Dan Mahony
Past President, Long Island Daylily Society
Daylilies
8:00pm: Mobee Weinstein
Foreman of Gardeners at NYBG and
Professor at SUNY Farmingdale
Ferns

 

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2008
7:00pm: Ask the Experts

Our panel of experts will be:

   Bill Barash, Manager of the Production
   Greenhouses at Planting Fields Arboretum

   Maura Brush, Director of Horticulture at
   Old Westbury Gardens

   Bill Titus, Past President of LIHS, formerly
   with Hicks, Martin Viette

   Jenny Ulsheimer, Director of Horticulture
   at Clark Botanical Garden
Bring your Gardening Questions to our Panel of Experts
8:00pm: Maura Brush
Director of Horticulture,
Old Westbury Gardens
Vines: Taking Your Garden to New Heights

 

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2008
1:00pm: Jen Campbell
Manager at The Farm at Peter's
by the Sea
CSA, Community Supported Agriculture Project
2:00pm: Scott Clark
Pinewood Perennial Gardens
Properly Selecting, Pruning, and Maintaining Plants for a Healthy Garden

 

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2008
1:00pm: Patricia Speciner
LIHS member; Freelance Garden writer; Region I Director, Garden Writers Association; Garden Columnist,
LI @home Magazine
Trees and Shrubs for the Small Garden
2:00pm: David Culp
Author; nationally known lecturer
(Longwood, Winterthur, American Horticultural Society); Hellebore
Hybridizer; Garden Design Consultant
Past, Present, and Future in Perennial Gardens

 

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 28, 2008
1:00pm: Millie Hendricks
LIHS member
Millie will present one of her popular nature videos
2:00pm: Andrew Bunting
Curator, Scott Arboretum
The Diversity of Hydrangeas