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Educational class on the principles of Garden Design at Sonnenberg Sat. Feb. 27  |
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Learn specific Principles of Garden Design, including specialty beds, at an all-day (9:30 a.m. – 3:30 pm) educational seminar in the Carriage House meeting room at Sonnenberg Gardens and Mansion State Historic Park in Canandaigua on Saturday, Feb. 27.
Three sessions will be featured throughout the day to share basic fundamentals of the art. Horticulturalist Roger Van Nostrand will focus on the construction of conventional garden beds, raised beds and boards, including site selection, soil preparation, mulching and management. He will also showcase a variety of hardy plant materials suitable for successive blooming, various site conditions and special purposes.
Horticulturalist and Sonnenberg Director David Hutchings will cover specifics of garden design including comparisons of formal and informal styles, beds vs. borders, color, height, form, texture, proportion and repetition. Home gardeners will learn how to assess their home property with an eye to plotting out garden designs that will enhance it.
The final speaker, Carrie Foster, of the Cornell Cooperative Extension office of Schenectady, will focus on vegetable gardening within existing beds, borders and berms. Participants will glean knowledge of how to carry out vegetable gardening within perennial beds as well.
Reservations are $10/person, or $8/ Sonnenberg members, and the seminar cost includes hot soup and a beverage served at the 12:30 lunch hour (bring a sandwich, if desired).
For more information or to make your reservation, call (585) 394-4922 during business hours (9:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. M- F).
Sonnenberg Gardens & Mansion State Historic Park is one of America’s longest surviving estates from the Victorian Era. The elegant Queen Anne-style mansion was built in 1887 in Canandaigua by New York City financier Frederick Ferris Thompson, and his wife, Mary Clark Thompson, as a summer home. Between 1901 and 1920, the widowed Mrs. Thompson and her staff created the nine formal gardens seen today. The grounds are open to the public from mid-May through early October each year. Sonnenberg is a non-profit organization dependent upon the support of members and sponsors and its dedicated corps of volunteers. For more information on the revival of the grand estate on the “sunny hill,” contact Director David Hutchings at (585) 396-7433.
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