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Country Living Fair – Rhinebeck, NY

I am simply beside myself.

houseplant container garden design servicesI’ve been invited to bring my presentation, “Jaw-Dropping, Traffic-Stopping, Get-Your-Neighbors Talking Containers” to the 2017 Country Living Fair in Rhinebeck, NY.

I will have the honor of creating a unique container garden in front of a large audience on the main stage Friday (2PM -June 3 )

The Country Living Fair brings the magazine’s content to life and gives readers access to a unique shopping experience featuring more than 200 vendors from 25 states, including antiques sellers, food purveyors, artists, furniture makers, crafters, and more. 

Guests will also have a chance to meet Country Living editors and their special guests, attend cooking, crafting, and DIY demonstrations, book signings, sample locally sourced, artisanal food, and shop the Country Living General Store.

This video link will give you a sense of the environment at a Country Living Fair!  

Heading to Rhinebeck for the Country Living Fair? Wondering what else to do while you’re there?
Here is a great guide: “33 Things to Do in New York’s Hudson Valley (besides the CL Fair!)”
You can even print this handy cheat sheet to help you plan your time and travel.

The fair will take place at the Dutchess County Fairgrounds, June 2-4, 2017

Are you interested in attending this year’s fair? I might be able to get you a ticket.

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Beauty and the Bees – A different way of looking at garden design

Beauty and the Bees - A different way of looking at garden design

One of my favorite lecture topics:

Beauty and the Bees – A different way of looking at garden design

Time was when we wanted to design gardens that were beautiful.

Planting trees, shrubs and perennials together to create a space that was aesthetically pleasing was the goal.

Now we know better.

beauty and the bees - a different way of looking at garden design

Gardening just for our own pleasure is not only selfish, it’s dangerous.

Colony Collapse Disorder and the plight of pollinators have made us aware that we do not garden alone.

We need to be designing landscapes and gardens with a mindful eye to the environment around us.

Join garden designer and beekeeper Deborah Trickett, owner of The Captured Garden, as she shows you how with a few tweaks we can create spaces that are not only beautiful but beneficial to bees and other pollinators.

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Bee Resources:

“Bee the Change – Plant for Pollinators” – Plant Something, MA

Protecting the Life That Sustains Us – Xerces Society

Massachusetts Beekeepers Association

Bee School – Worcester County Beekeepers Association

Bee School – Norfolk County Beekeepers

Ten Interesting Facts About Bees – Massachusetts Master Gardeners

Petunias Stopped Blooming? It’s Not You, It’s Them.

I recently received this email from a client with a roof garden in Boston:

“Just got home . Garden is beautiful!!  Thank you.
In contrast, our Cape containers look terrible.  They (mostly petunias ) were pretty good  all summer. Then all of a sudden they stopped blooming. I had been using a fertilizer in solution weekly.  The product is supposed to stimulate blooms.  I did it weekly for about a month—the last time I doubled the dosage.

Do you think that I over-fertilized?   Any thoughts? Can you do magic on Cape Cod?”

While I am more than happy to do magic on Cape Cod I, unfortunately, cannot do magic with petunias. I have never succeeded with them long-term. Perhaps I am doing something wrong but it’s one reason petunias made my lecture “The 10 Most-Popular Container Plants – And Why You Shouldn’t Use Them.”

tired petuniasPetunias peter out, let’s be honest. They look gang-busters when you buy them in May and I think that’s why so many of us are seduced by their vibrant, brightly-colored little faces. We don’t look down the summer months and see that those same faces will resemble Grandma Moses. You can whack petunias back in July and hope that your hard-pruning will put the fear of God into them so they will bloom for your anticipated graduation/christening/bridal shower/first communion get-together. But that doesn’t always work. As I get older I get less sentimental. I am not interested in a plant that requires constant deadheading to look its best.

As my friend Kerry Mendez says “plants are not children or pets” we can get rid of them without guilt.

Which is what I do with petunias.

Out they go and are easily replaced with another colorful annual that will look even BETTER in August than it does in June. Are you wondering what that annual is?

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Container Garden Lecture

Deborah Trickett is often asked to share her enthusiasm, wisdom, and tips with other garden enthusiasts in lectures and demonstrations across Massachusetts and Rhode Island.

Trickett’s demonstration starts with “Containers 101,” selecting the right containers, soil mixes, and plants for different growing conditions. With the basics in hand, attendees then learn about new and unusual plant material and how to create one-of-a-kind combinations, including pairing annuals, perennials, and even vegetables. Trickett usually demonstrates two dramatic containers, which often end up going home with winning raffle ticket holders.
A  recent attendee of one of Deborah’s lectures stated that “Deb adds a fourth dimension: ‘chillers,’ mind-blowing designs that send shivers of delight up your spine.”

Deborah Trickett is a Massachusetts certified horticulturist and a Massachusetts certified landscape professional. Her work has been featured in the CBS Boston, Boston Globe, Fine Gardening Magazine, Garden Tours New England, Garden Gate, and New England Home magazine and on the TV show “New England Dream Home.” She lectures at the Boston Flower & Garden Show, the Philadelphia International Flower Show, and the Arnold Arboretum.

Deborah Trickett has spoken at many shows and garden clubs on topics ranging from container gardens to urban gardening to garden design.

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Attleboro Garden Club Lecture

 

container gardening with purple and yellow

“I just want to let you know how much I enjoyed your presentation last night in Attleboro for the Attleboro Garden Club.

You were the most inspirational lecturer I have ever heard regarding gardening. I can’t wait to do my containers this year. You gave some awesome tips for this sometimes very stressful job I do every year. I only wish I could take you along for support. Lol. But, I will bring my notes with me and try to follow your ideas.

Plan, color scheme, stay focused, container, soil, texture/contrast.

So, so informative and helpful, I can’t say enough.

Again, thank you very much and I hope to attend another lecture by you someday. You have my dream job.”

Carolyn Bosh, Attleboro, MA

The Captured Garden has spoken at many shows and garden clubs on topics ranging from container gardens to urban gardening to garden design.

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