Seminar Series
After you see the latest in design and construction in the displays of GardenScape, come upstairs to the seminar room and hear the latest in gardening from local and national experts. All four show days feature hourly seminars from 11am to 4pm. Topics include garden design and maintenance, horticultural history, and discussion of new plant introductions. Our local experts know the region's conditions and speak from experience. Our nationally-known headliners are authors, growers, or designers with a wealth of knowledge to share.
All seminars are free with your admission to GardenScape!
Schedule of seminars
Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday
Headline Speakers
Below, you can get acquainted with the headline speakers for the 2009 show.
Sally Jean Cunningham is an author, lecturer and horticulture consultant from East Aurora, who writes for the Buffalo News and is seen weekly on Buffalo television. At 11 a.m., she'll discuss Nature-Loving Landscapes, focusing on natural landscaping, permaculture, and gardening with native plants, while presenting the case for nature-friendly choices. Her 2 p.m. presentation, entitled More Perennials in Better Places, will emphasize the versatility and range of the vast perennial plant category - and their suitability for yards and gardens in Western New York. She is the author of Gardening With Perennials: Creating Beautiful Flower Gardens for Every Part of Your Yard.
Sandra Van Allen Baker is a Master Gardener and president of the Monroe County Alliance for Wildlife Protection. Her seminars on Friday will touch on a topic likely to be embraced by gardeners in Upstate New York - How to Deer-Proof Your Garden. Her presentation will include information on plants that deer rarely eat or occasionally nibble, as well as those that they frequently devour. She'll also discuss a list of commercial products to use for deer-proofing. Sandy stays informed of new products regarding deer-proofing, and can share clever solutions to deer-human conflicts as discussed by her past workshop participants. Her presentation at GardenScape 2003 was well received, and we are pleased to welcome her back.
In 1972, Barry Glick bought 60 acres of a mountaintop in West Virginia, established Sunshine Farm & Gardens, and started a plant collection that now numbers more than 10,000 taxa. Currently, he's the editor of The Cyber-Plantsman, an online magazine for serious gardeners. His main focus of plant breeding at Sunshine Farm & Gardens is within the genus Helleborus, of which he maintains some 68,000 flowering size stock plants, as the self-proclaimed "King of Helleborus."
Glick will present seminars at 2 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday. His Saturday lecture, called Destination Helleborus, will examine this genus, from hybridizing to propagation. His Sunday presentation is entitled Woodland Wonders from the Wild, an enlightening guide to some of the plants we overlook on our woodland hikes.
