TOP AREA GARDENING EVENTS Classes, Events, and Plant Shows/Sales • Friday, May 20, 12noon Eco-Printing with Flowers Hosted by the U.S. Botanic Garden. Speaker: An-Phuong Ly, natural dyer and textile artist. Held online. Free, but pre-registration is required. Go to www. USBG.gov/OnlinePrograms. • Saturday, May 21, 10am–4pm Sandy Spring Garden Tour Immerse yourself in the spring display of beautiful local gardens. Grow your inspiration as you walk through five remarkable gardens. Locally grown vegetable plants, including heirloom tomatoes and herbs, will be available for purchase. The Garden Tour is held rain or shine. This biennial event is hosted by the Sandy Spring Museum’s Garden Club. See details and buy tickets at sandyspringmuseum.org. •Sunday, May 22, 2–4pm Rose Garden Self-Guided Tour The Potomac Rose Society will meet at the Bon Air Memorial Rose Garden for a self-guided tour. Stroll at your leisure to view 100+ roses bushes. Free parking is available adjacent to the garden. The Bon Air Memorial Rose Garden was the brainchild of Nellie Broyhill and her family, who wanted to honor the Arlington-area soldiers that fought in World War II. She created the Arlington Rose Garden Foundation, which raised funds and established the original memorial garden at the Virginia Hospital Center in 1951. The garden was relocated to its current site in Bon Air Park in 1964 and is now maintained by Arlington, VA, county government. To attend, register for free at: https://potomacrosesociety. wildapricot.org/events. • Sunday, May 22, 2–5pm 17th SPCA Garden Tour More than 15 stops are on the garden tour of the Shepherd Park neighborhood on the DC-MD border between Georgia Avenue NW and 16th Street NW. The host sites include a penthouse rooftop garden; two schools; two houses of worship; and historic, English, and sculpture/art gardens, to name a
few. The tour starts at Shepherd Park Christian Church, 7900 Eastern Avenue NW, WDC. To purchase tickets ($15 each) and for more details, go to www. shepherdpark.org. • Saturday, May 28, 2–3pm A Book Talk & Signing: How to Garden When You Are Renting Held at Thanksgiving Farm in Adamstown, MD. Kathy Jentz and Teri Speight will give a short talk about small-space gardening, in particular for those who are renting their garden space. They will answer your questions and sign books. Free to attend. More details: https://www.thanksgivingfarmandgarden.com/. • Thursday, June 2, 6:30–8pm Ground Covers: Great Alternatives to Turf Grass Online Talk Kathy Jentz will give a talk about groundcover plants that serve many different purposes in the landscape, from limiting weed growth to stabilizing slopes to adding texture to your garden. If you cannot attend live, it will be recorded and available for registrants afterwards. Fee: $12. Register at https://web1.myvscloud.com/wbwsc/ mdmontgomeryctywt.wsc/iteminfo. html?Module=AR&FMID=4807324. • Saturday, June 4, 10am–1pm Annual Perennial Plant Sale Hosted by the Mountain Laurel Garden Club; held in downtown Oakland, MD. The sale includes many native plants from members’ gardens that are proven to thrive in western Maryland. Free to attend. Held rain or shine (no pets). For more information, visit www.MountainLaurelGardenClub.com. • Sunday, June 5, 2–3pm Q&A Garden Book Party Held at Valley View Farms in Cockeysville/Hunt Valley (Baltimore), MD, Kathy Jentz and Teri Speight will answer your questions and sell/sign their books, The Urban Garden and Black Flora, along with Kim Roman, author of How to Garden Indoors & Grow Your Own Food Year Round. Free to attend. More details and directions at: http:// www.valleyviewfarms.com/.
• Thursday, June 9, 6:30-8pm Garden Book Club: A History of Zinnias: Flower for the Ages The Washington Gardener Magazine’s Garden Book Club meets quarterly via Zoom and is free and open to all. To join us, register at: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0tf-qqpj4sGdLDCxsrOa36d7Ma zNmTAxyW • Saturday, June 18, 2–3:30pm “Can’t Fail Containers” Talk Held at Patuxent Nursery in Bowie, MD. Kathy Jentz will give a short talk about container gardening, answer your questions, and sign her book. At the end of the container talk and demonstration, one lucky winner will be selected to take home the mixed-container demonstration planting. Free to attend. More details: https://patuxentnursery.com/ event/kathy-jentz-container-gardening/.
Looking Ahead • Saturday, June 25, 10am–3pm The Country Gardens Tour Hosted by the Mountain Laurel Garden Club. The tour includes four residential gardens in southern Garrett County, MD, three of which are in the Deep Creek Lake area. Visitors will see many native plants, a display by the Garrett County Master Gardeners, a fishpond, several memory gardens, and a variety of flowers for sun and shade that thrive in the local area. Free to attend. Held rain or shine (no pets). Tickets for the tour are $10.00. For more information, visit www.MountainLaurelGardenClub. com.
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