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Kitchen Garden Planting and Design with Anna Pavord

March 25, 7:00 PM-8:30 PM
Denver Botanic Gardens

$20.00 (member) / $25.00 (non member)

Order, coupled with profusion, is the hallmark of the best kitchen gardens. If you can maintain some kind of balance between the two, you are very close to paradise. There are, of course, many practical reasons why you should grow your own fruit and vegetables. However, don’t underestimate the beauty they add to a garden. Few trees in spring can match the elegiac performance of a mature pear, pouring out its heart in white blossom against the sky. Few flowers can produce a smell as intoxicating as that of a ripe greengage, ripening against a warm wall. These pleasures can be yours; learn how with noted garden writer Anna Pavord.

Anna Pavord is the gardening correspondent for the Independent and the author of eight previous books, including the bestselling “The Tulip.” She contributes to a number of magazines, both in the U.S. and the U.K., and regularly fronts programs for BBC Radio 3 and 4. She chairs the Gardens Panel of the National Trust, and sits on the Parks and Gardens Panel of English Heritage. She lives in Dorset, England, where she spent 30 years restoring the garden of an old rectory. She has recently moved to a new house and started another garden. She is married and has three daughters.

6 p.m.: Social hour and tasting, hosted by Slow Food Denver (Mitchell Hall)

7 p.m.: Program and book signing (Mitchell Hall)