Winter Walk & Warm-Up: Garden & Greenhouse Tour

4342 Grand Avenue,Mattituck NY 11952

04 March, 2023

Description

Join us for this rare opportunity to appreciate the Landcraft Garden and greenhouses in winter. We are pleased to welcome back Vincent A. Simeone (Director of Planting Fields Arboretum, horticulturist, lecturer, and author), who will lead guests on a delightful outdoor exploration of the garden’s 4-cultivated acres. Although most plants lie dormant, interesting characteristics such as habit, ornamental fruit, and interesting bark become most evident in the bare winter landscape. Conifers and broadleaf evergreens offer striking contrasts to deciduous trees and shrubs with their unique needle forms or leaves and prolong a garden’s appeal into the off-season. Simeone will inspire gardeners to utilize unusual horticultural treasures such as winter fruiting plants; uncommon broadleaved evergreens and conifers; deciduous trees baring vibrant barks and branching structures; and flowering shrubs that bloom on the fringes of the winter season. He will offer important information on sound garden maintenance practices and a plant palette that will provide food and shelter for animals in winter. Then warm-up with Dennis Schrader, President of Landcraft Garden Foundation and Founder & Owner of Landcraft Environments – as he pulls guests inside for a tour of Landcraft’s exceptionally diverse plant collections within the warm & lively greenhouses of Landcraft Environments. *Participants will receive a signed copy of Simeone’s book, “Sustainable Gardening: Grow a Greener, Low Maintenance Landscape with Less Resources” OR “Wonders of the Winter Landscape.” **Continuing Education Units (CEUs) available! 3 credits each for International Society of Arboriculture Certified Professionals; Certified Nursery and Landscape Professionals; and NYS Registered Landscape Architects through Cornell Cooperative Extension Suffolk County. Sign-up sheets are available from each provider day of event. VINCENT SIMEONE: For the past 25 years Vincent has worked in public horticulture at Planting Fields Arboretum State Historic Park in New York where he is the Director. He received an AAS degree in ornamental horticulture from SUNY Farmingdale, a BS in ornamental horticulture from the University of Georgia, and a master’s degree in Public Administration from CW Post. Vincent studied under well-known professors Dr. Michael Dirr and Dr. Allan Armitage. Over the last 15 years, Vincent has assisted Armitage with garden tours through Southern England, Northern France, Southern Germany, Canada, Ireland, Australia, Japan, New Zealand, South Africa and Sweden. Vincent specializes in woody plant id, culture, use and selection of superior varieties and is an experienced lecturer, instructor, and horticultural consultant. He has spoken to many groups nationwide and has appeared on several garden shows including Martha Stewart Living and HGTV. DENNIS SCHRADER: Read more about Landcraft Garden Foundation co-founder Dennis Schrader at Our Team – Landcraft Garden Foundation AGE: Adult Audience only WEATHER: Rain or Shine. SPECIAL NOTES: Dress appropriately for the weather.