Winter Gardening Series January 24, 31 & February 7, 2004
This year's Winter Gardening Series will place special emphasis in each session on how to plan your landscape with paths, walls, and outdoor rooms, so there is less work and simpler chores. That way you can live your life unencumbered while you and your garden grow old gracefully together. During the break you will have a chance to chat with your fellow gardeners. Historic Trinity Lutheran Church, 1345 Gratiot, around the corner from Eastern Market, is easily accessible from I-75. (See directions below)
About the Classes
I. Saturday, January 24, 9:30 a.m. - noon Instructor: Janet Macunovich
Pathways
How to lay out and furnish the pathways
in your garden to get everyone and everything where it needs to go practically, gracefully,
and beautifully.
II. Saturday, January 31, 9:30 a.m. - noon Instructor: Martha Ferguson
Walls for the Outdoor Room
Shrubs, vines, and other
vertical features form the walls of your outdoor living spaces. Here are plants to use and
ways to use them to achieve privacy in your garden room
III Saturday February 7, 2004, 9:30 a.m. - noon; Instructor: Karen Skandalaris
Designing the Outdoor Room
Design tips for planting around decks, patios, and other outdoor sitting areas that will make
the most of your outdoor room.
About the Instructors
Janet Macunovich has been designing, planting, and maintaining gardens
for nearly twenty years. She cofounded the Michigan School of Gardening, writes a
weekly "Growing Concerns" column in the Detroit News Homestyle section, as well as
"Janet's Journal" in the Michigan Gardener. She has written six garden-related books, has
her own design firm, "Perennial Favorites, and is a nationally sought out speaker and gifted
teacher.
Martha Ferguson was Master Gardener Coordinator at the Oakland County MSU
Extension Service for nine years, resulting in 1,498 gardeners certified, before her recent
family's move to Virginia. She is now pursuing a freelance career in garden writing and
lecturing. Her return in January to teach classes will enable you to enjoy her presentations
once more.
Karen Skandalaris has been designing and installing custom perennial gardens and
renovating historical landscapes for ten years, and is an instructor in the Michigan School of
Gardening. She has a Certificate of Landscape Design/Horticulture from Michigan State
University, a B.A. in Fine Arts/Advertising Design from Wayne State, and has studied at Dow,
Matthaei, Niagara Botanical, and Hidden Lake Gardens.
About the Classroom
Classes will be held in the Huegli Auditorium of Historic Trinity Lutheran Church, 1345 Gratiot.
Access from I-75 exit at Gratiot (53B). Make a sharp right turn at Gratiot. Church is 2/10 of a
mile down, just past light at Russell on the right hand side. Drive in at guarded iron gated lots.
Call for further directions. Church phone: 3135673100.