Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens & MELNA: Collaborations
As springtime approaches, we at Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens eagerly anticipate the coming growing season and the return of our guests and students – including you! Tis year, I’m excited to announce that, thanks to a strengthened partnership with MELNA, all of our “Gardening and Horticulture” and “Botany and Ecology” workshops (see http://
www.mainegardens.org/ learning/learning-for- adults/) – including courses in our popular Certificate in Native Plants and Ecological Horticulture Program – will be eligible for MELNA recertification credits. We’re truly excited to welcome more of Maine’s own landscape and horticulture professionals to our programs here; education about plants is central to our core mission, and we hope you’ll find our beautiful Bosarge Family Education Center and acres of award-winning gardens the perfect setting to continue your professional development. We welcome you take advantage of a diversity of enriching courses and opportunities right here in the Mid-Coast, where experienced instructors from our own region and across the country converge to emphasize hands-on learning about plants and horticulture in small group settings. We have a number of workshops designed to engage and inspire Maine professionals this year - for example, during late June, Professor Doug Tallamy of the University of Delaware and author of “Bringing Nature Home” will offer a day-long workshop on “Gardening for Wildlife.” Soon after, our 12th Annual Garden Symposium will feature nurseryman Tony Avent of Plant Delights Nursery, as well as garden authors Tovah Martin and Kerry Ann Mendez, on the topic “Cultivating Extraordinary Plants.” During August, Larry Weaner of Larry Weaner Landscape Associates will offer a practical how-to course on the challenging topic “Establishing and Managing Native Wildflower Meadows”. We’ll even have a visit from legendary plantsman Dan Hinkley of Heronswood in Washington State to speak about exploring Asia for plants to introduce to the nursery trade. Tese and dozens of other programs are happening
GrowingMEGreen
throughout the growing season, and are open for registration now at
www.mainegardens.org. And, fellow plant-lovers – remember that program registration always includes an all-day admission to the Gardens! We in the Education Department warmly welcome you to join us for what promises to be an exciting season of learning here at CMBG. We hope you will include us in your professional development plans this year and beyond. Melissa Cullina Director of Education and Staff Botanist
Habitat Gardens Series Wildflower Meadow
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Dan Hinkley
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