Center for Biotechnology and Life Sciences, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI

DIRECTIONS:

REGISTRATION FOR Creating Your Dream Garden, March 2, 2013Pre-registration is required. Seating is limited. The symposium fee is $65 withearly registration until February 1. After February 1, the fee is $75. The costof the conference includes a continental breakfast, lunch and an afternoon snack.Registration closes February 25. Register online (with credit card payment) at:http://www.regonline.ca/CreatingYourDreamGarden or register by mail. Earlyregistration fee must be received by February 1. Mail your completed applicationand a check payable to URI mailed to: URI MGA Spring Symposium,URI Outreach Center, 3 East Alumni Avenue, Kingston, RI 02881.

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I am new to gardening and would like to have my name entered into araffle for a free Master Gardener consultation of my home garden.Ten consultations will be awarded.

Just a reminder... there will be no refunds after February 25, 2013. The URIMGA andURI Outreach Center reserve the right to alter the program, including providing substitutespeakers if necessary.

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URI Center for Biotechnology and Life Sciences (CBLS)120 Flagg Road, Kingston, Rhode Island 02881From the North

Take I-95 South to Exit 9 for Route 4 South to NorthKingstown. This is a left exit. Merge on to US 1 South andtake a right on to Route 138 West after the Holiday Inn.

In Kingston, take a right at the Main Entrance for URI onto Upper College Road. At the end of Upper CollegeRoad, take a left on to Flagg Road. Park after the URICBLS building on the left in the Chafee/White Hallparking lot (P on the map).From the South and West

Take US 1 North to Route 138 West. Take a right at the Main Entrance for URI on to UpperCollege Road. At the end of Upper College Road, take a left on to Flagg Road. Park afterthe URI CBLS Building on the left in the Chafee/White Hall parking lot (P on the map).

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Kerry MendezCreating A Beautiful Shade Garden

Julie Moir MesservyHome Outside:

Creating The Landscape You Love

Ellen Ecker OgdenKitchen Garden Designs

Barbara DamroschTheme Gardens

URI MASTER GARDENERS

PresentCreating Your Dream Garden

A GARDENING SYMPOSIUMSaturday, March 2, 2013

Kate Venturini, Creating A Rain GardenKaren Asher, Designing With Native PlantsDan Christina, Designing With Trees & ShrubsPriscilla Purinton, Creating Vertical Gardens

PROGRAM

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS KEYNOTE SPEAKERSKerry MendezCREATING A BEAUTIFULSHADE GARDEN

Kerry, is a gardenconsultant, designer,writer, teacher, andlecturer, focusing ontime-saving gardening

techniques and workhorse plant material.She is the author of top selling books,including her most recent on shade gardens,and writer of freelance articles for numerousregional and national magazines. Herwebinars attracted thousands of gardenersfrom around the country. Kerry is dedicatedto teaching the art of low-maintenanceperennial gardening and landscaping. Herhigh energy approach and ability to mixhumor with practical information is regularlyfeatured on TV.

BREAKOUT SPEAKERSCREATING A RAIN GARDEN

Kate Venturini is alandscape restorationspecialist focusing onsustainable landscapedesign and invasive plantmanagement. Herresearch interests and

outreach work include storm-watermanagement, habitat enhancement andresource conservation. She co-coordinatesthe URI Master Gardener Program andholds URI degrees in LandscapeArchitecture and Marine Affairs.

Kate Venturini

BREAKOUT SPEAKERS

Ellen Ecker OgdenKITCHEN GARDENDESIGNS

Ellen combines herlove of good food witha background in fineart to create kitchengarden designs thatturn work into play.

She has authored five books, includingFrom the Cook’s Garden and The CompleteKitchen Garden. Her own kitchen garden andnumerous articles have been featured innational magazines including Eating Well,Horticulture, The Boston Globe, CountryGardens and Martha Stewart Living. Ellenis dedicated to growing ornamental ediblesand has been a guest chef on PBS’s VictoryGarden, and HGTV’s Garden Smarts.

DESIGNING WITHNATIVE PLANTS

Karen is a native plantspecialist and formerPresident of the WildPlant Society. Shevolunteers in the PlantConservation Program for

the New England Wildflower Societyassessing the status of rare species inRhode Island. Karen has publishedarticles on Native plants and works on theRhody Native Project.

DESIGNING WITHTREES & SHRUBS

Dan is the AssistantGrounds Manager ofBlithewold Mansion,Gardens and Arboretumin Bristol, RI. He hasworked with the designand implementation of

new gardens, and the restoration of manyof their landscape features. Dan currentlymanages their Vegetable Garden. He is anexperienced manager of a commercialretail nursery.

CREATING VERTICALGARDENS

Priscilla is founder andPresident of the RhodeIsland branch of theAmerican Begonia Society.She is the former VPof the New EnglandCarnivorous PlantSociety, a certified Tree

Steward, and a RI Certified Horticulturist.Priscilla works as a sales manager for DavidRose Perennials, a wholesale perennialgrower.

Barbara DamroschTHEME GARDENS

Barbara is a profes-sional horticulturist,currently writing aweekly column for TheWashington Post calledA Cook’s Garden. Shehas authored 3 books,

The Garden Primer, Theme Gardens, and herjust published Four Season Farm Gardener’sCookbook. She is co-owner of Four SeasonFarm, an experimental market garden and anationally recognized model for small-scalesustainable agriculture. She previouslyworked as a correspondent on the PBS se-ries The Victory Garden, co-hosted the seriesGardening Naturally on The Learning Channel,and owned her own Landscape Design firm.

Julie Moir MesservyHOME OUTSIDE:CREATING THELANDSCAPE YOU LOVE

Julie is an innovativeleader in landscapeand garden designtheory and practice.Her vision for creating

landscapes of beauty and meaning hasbeen featured in major newspapers andmagazines around the world. Acclaimedauthor of six books and numerous highprofile lectures, Julie is the recipient ofmany national honors and awards includingthe Association for Professional LandscapeDesigner’s Award of Distinction and theHorticultural Society’s Great AmericanGardeners Award for Design. She currentlyruns her own design studio (jmmds.com) inSaxtons River, Vermont.

CREATING YOUR DREAM GARDEN

The University of Rhode Island Master Gardener Association and the URI OutreachCenter are pleased to bring you Creating Your Dream Garden, a special day designed forthose who want to learn more about creating beautiful outdoor garden spaces. Thesymposium is open to all, and will focus on the art and practice of landscape design.Join us for a day filled with speakers that are sure to enrich your appreciation for thepositive effects of gardening.

Register today for Creating Your Dream Garden, and join us on March 2 at the Centerfor Biotechnology and Life Sciences on the URI Kingston Campus. The facility isaccessible to all. See the registration information in this pamphlet.

7:30 – 8:30 Registration & Continental Breakfast8:30 – 8:45 Opening Comments8:45 – 9:45 Julie Moir Messervy

Home Outside:Creating The Landscape You Love

9:45 – 10:10 Book signing/break10:10 –11:10 Kerry Mendez

Creating A Beautiful Shade Garden11:10 – 12:30 Book signing/lunch12:30 – 1:30 Barbara Damrosch

Theme Gardens1:30 – 1:50 Book signing/break1:50 – 2:50 Ellen Ecker Ogden

Kitchen Garden Designs

2:50 – 3:15 Book signing/break/snack3:15 – 3:30 Raffle Drawings/

Closing comments3:30 – 4:30 Breakout sessions

• Karen AsherDesigning With Native Plants

• Dan ChristinaDesigning With Trees & Shrubs

• Priscilla PurtainCreating Vertical Gardens

• Kate VenturiniCreating A Rain Garden

4:30 Symposium ends

Karen Asher Dan Christina PriscillaPurinton

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