$17.00 (Member) / $22.00 (Non Member) / $25.00 (Day of Class)
with Scott Calhoun and Judith Phillips
Calhoun is a self-described desert plant fiend and an inspired garden designer. He is the author of “Yard Full of Sun,” which won the 2006 American Horticultural Society Book Award, as well as “Chasing Wildflowers.”
Phillips is a landscape designer and a teacher in the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of New Mexico. A prolific author, she has produced five best-selling books on the use of native plants in the landscape, including “Southwestern Landscaping with Native Plants” and “Plants for Natural Gardens: Southwestern Native and Adaptive Trees, Shrubs, Wildflowers and Grasses.”
Nearly every back yard has them, but how often do you see walls that provide a dynamic and integral garden background? In the West, our walls can echo the colors found in local flora and geology, as well as keep undesirable garden critters at bay. Most importantly, vibrantly colored walls can make your drought-tolerant plants, and especially Western natives, “pop.” Scott Calhoun will take you on an illustrated tour of colored walls that will cover style, color selection and plant choices.
Great gardens are authentic. They flourish where they are because they follow local patterns. Judith Phillips brings an understanding of our wildly fluctuating temperatures, erratic precipitation and intense sunlight to her discussion about how the marriage of beautifully functional garden architecture and plants that are perfectly suited to the spaces they occupy make a place both comfortable and compelling.
A book signing will follow the lectures.
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