In addition to strolling through the Gardens of the World, the Lehigh Valley Flower Show will have some of the BEST experts in their fields giving demonstrations and seminars about a wide variety of topics – all weekend! Just check out our schedule for the ‘Rose Stage’ and the ‘Sunflower stage’ then grab a seat for any of the presentations.
2017 SEMINAR AND DEMONSTRATION SCHEDULE
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ROSE STAGE - (SMALL HALL)
FRIDAY 11 AM Garden Design for Small Residential Spaces Kate Brandes, Lehigh Gap Nature Center 12 PM Succulent Gardens Demonstration Kutztown FFA 1 PM Air Plants Steve Smith, Lewisberry Gardens 2 PM Cloning Tom Fine, Lehigh Valley Hydroponics 3 PM Wild Birds Steve Smith, Lewisberry Gardens 4 PM Global Warming & How It Can Effect Your Landscape Randy Fey, Master Gardener 5 PM Design with Nine Rosemary Gish Ebersole, Emmaus Garden Club 6 PM Flower Arranging Demonstration / Floral Auction Rich Mar Florists SATURDAY 10:15 AM Seed Starting Success Jennie Merkel, Merkel Mountain Farm 11 AM Cloning Tom Fine, Lehigh Valley Hydroponics 12 PM Planning Ahead for your Fall Garden Clean-Up Linc Coffin, Master Gardener 1 PM Growing Our Food Community Liz Wagner, Crooked Row Farm 2 PM Grow Your Best Tasting Tomatoes Ever! Mike McGrath, NPR 4 PM Global Warming & How It Can Effect Your Landscape Randy Fey, Master Gardener 5 PM Flower Arranging Demonstration / Floral Auction Rich Mar Florists SUNDAY 11 AM Design with Nine Rosemary Gish Ebersole, Emmaus Garden Club 12 PM Global Warming & How It Can Effect Your Landscape Randy Fey, Master Gardener 1 PM Seed Starting Success Jennie Merkel, Merkel Mountain Farm 2:30 PM Flower Arranging Demonstration / Floral Auction Rich Mar Florists |
SUNFLOWER STAGE- (BIG HALL)
FRIDAY 10:30 AM Winter Flowering Bulbs Jerry Simcoe 12:30 PM Growing Our Food Community Liz Wagner, Crooked Row Farm 1:30 PM Shady Secrets Louise Melcher & Kathy Halpert 2:30 PM Cloning Tom Fine, Lehigh Valley Hydroponics 4:30 PM Winter Flowering Bulbs Jerry Simcoe 5:30 PM Creative Container Gardening Lori Metz, Carriage House Landscape Design SATURDAY 10:30 AM Gardening for Good Deb Martin, Lehigh Valley Food Policy Council 11:30 AM Attracting Butterflies Consuelo Almodovar, Master Gardener 12:30 PM Right Plant, Right Place Sue Tantsits Edge of the Woods Plant Nursery 1:30 PM Air Plants Steve Smith, Lewisberry Gardens 2:30 PM Creative Container Gardening Lori Metz, Carriage House Landscape Design 3:30 PM Wild Birds Steve Smith, Lewisberry Gardens 5:30 PM Design with Nine Rosemary Gish Ebersole, Emmaus Garden Club SUNDAY 11:30 AM Attracting Butterflies Consuelo Almodovar, Master Gardener 12:30 PM Right Plant, Right Place Sue Tantsits, Edge of the Woods Plant Nursery 1:30 PM Growing a Tomato and Pepper Salsa Garden Joe Veshinfsky, Master Gardener 2:30 PM Creative Container Gardening Lori Metz, Carriage House Landscape Design |
Mike McGrath
SPECIAL GUEST - MIKE McGRATH
Grow your Best Tasting Tomatoes EVER! 2:00 PM Saturday, March 11
Tired of tasteless tomatoes? Envious of your neighbor's big juicy Love Apples? Tomato lover supreme Mike McGrath, host of the syndicated Public Radio show “You Bet Your Garden”, and author of a book solely about the tastiest fruits of summer, will reveal the tricks and tips you need to be a tomato taste-test winner in this fast-paced workshop, focusing on the importance of correct planting, feeding, watering and support, with a special emphasis on common mistakes to avoid when growing big, tasty tomatoes in containers. Here's tip #1: Start saving your eggshells now! Then come to the workshop and Mike will tell you why!
Grow your Best Tasting Tomatoes EVER! 2:00 PM Saturday, March 11
Tired of tasteless tomatoes? Envious of your neighbor's big juicy Love Apples? Tomato lover supreme Mike McGrath, host of the syndicated Public Radio show “You Bet Your Garden”, and author of a book solely about the tastiest fruits of summer, will reveal the tricks and tips you need to be a tomato taste-test winner in this fast-paced workshop, focusing on the importance of correct planting, feeding, watering and support, with a special emphasis on common mistakes to avoid when growing big, tasty tomatoes in containers. Here's tip #1: Start saving your eggshells now! Then come to the workshop and Mike will tell you why!
Emmaus Garden Club, Rosemary Gish-Ebersole
Design with NINE
Design with Nine shares how to construct a basic line design with NINE stems of plant materials, giving ideas about how to stage NGC creative and traditional designs as well as tips that can be used for home entertaining. Brochure available. (she will focus on ~4 table scapes that incorporate the show theme, i.e., using colors of a particular flag and materials that match the country)
Lori Metz
Carriage House Landscape Design
Creative Container Gardening - Whether you grow vegetables or ornamental plants, you can grow them in a container garden. Discover how to choose and use containers for around your garden – from adding color with hanging baskets to defining an area or directing traffic flow. Learn which plants and combinations to select for a variety of container gardens and how to dress them up or down. Get tips on low maintenance ways to care for your containerized plants and keep them healthy and looking their best.
Rich Mar
A variety of Floral arrangement seminars and demonstrations with the flowers being auctioned.
Randy Fey
Global Warming & how it can affect your landscape
What changes can be expected to landscapes and changes you might not be aware of.
Sue Tantsits
Edge of the Woods Native Plant Nursery
“Right Plant, Right Place”: The Special Nature of Native Plants. What do we need to think about when we build our gardens and landscapes? How can we create a landscape that is attractive and sustainable? Light, moisture, and soil characteristics play a critical role in how native plants adapt to the plant community we create. Can native plants learn to adapt to our changing environment?
Jennie Merkel, Merkel Mountain Farms
Seed starting success
Deb Martin, Lehigh Valley Food Policy Info
Title: Gardening for Good Description: Did you know that your love of gardening can help provide healthy food to those in need in the Lehigh Valley? Learn how your vegetable abundance can strengthen the local food economy and give back to the community!
Kate Brandes, Lehigh Gap Nature Center
Garden Design for Small Residential Spaces: Kate Brandes (Director of Lehigh Gap Nature Center's Landscaping Program) will discuss how native plants can be used to beautify your yard (with easy to follow design tips), while also supporting the local ecosystem and providing a healthier environment for your family.
Consuelo Almodovar
Do you know what caterpillar and a butterfly have in common? Come learn about the life cycle of a butterfly and what you can do to attract them into your garden!
Tom Fine, Lehigh Valley Hydroponics
(Cloning)
Joe Veshinfsky, Master Gardener
Growing a Tomato and Pepper Salsa Garden
Salsa is perhaps the most popular condiment and it cannot get any better than when made fresh using your own home grown ingredients. This class will show how easy it is to grow your own tomatoes and peppers to make delicious fresh homemade salsa. Topics to be covered will include deciding whether to grow from seeds or to buy transplants, recommended varieties and sources, planting and care, other salsa ingredients that can be grown, and recipes for both fresh and canned salsa.
Kutztown High School’s Agriculture Program
Succulent Garden Demonstration
Steven Smith, Lewisberry Gardens
Wild Birds:
Attract more birds to your backyard by using more attractive feeders and various kinds of bird food. We will explore the pros and cons of feeders and bird food on the market today. We will discuss Seed Feeders, Bluebirds, Suets and Suet Feeders, Hummingbirds, and discouraging unwanted birds & squirrels.
Air Plants
Come and explore these exciting plants that grow and even thrive without any soil. Air Plants offer a variety of shapes, colors and sizes and can be attached to anything or even nothing at all. Air Plants are among the most carefree and care forgiving plants on earth!
Gerald Simcoe
Winter Flowering Bulbs
Bulbs are the perennially flowering plant of the future as they can survive a wide fluctuation in climatic variations. I will talk about these winter-flowering plants from my garden and how I came to learn of the various hardy bulbs by growing them in the Lehigh Valley, some of which are Snowdrops and Snowflakes, Adonis, Winter Aconites, and Cyclamen.
Linc Coffin
Planning ahead for your fall garden clean-up
A relaxed and friendly review of the many tasks involved in a fall garden cleanup,or as some folks refer to it, “putting the garden to bed for the winter”. We will list tasks so bring a pencil and your next-fall thinking cap!
Louise Melcher & Kathy Halpert
Shady Secrets
Gardening in the shade can be a challenge. It is important to learn the degrees of shade to know which plants are appropriate in different situations. Sometime even varieties of mosses can be a lovely and useful choice.
Liz Wagner
Growing Our Food Community
From the perspective of a young, local farmer, see the changing landscape of the Valley and its community food choices. You’ll be guided through the best places to purchase your neighbors’ produce, where to find fresh and organic meats, dairy and grains, and learn how to Buy Fresh and Buy Local.
