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Speaker Series Handout for January 2012
Cool New Annuals and Perennials that Perform Beautifully in Kansas City
Dan Parcel, retail director Kaw Valley Greenhouses
GCA Members can download the presentation below using the username and password on your 2012 membership card.
Download the Handout
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March 17, 2012
12:00 p.m.
Luncheon Presention
Cultivating the Rainbow: A Guide to Bearded Irises for Beginners and Enthusiasts
Kelly Norris, Author and manager of Rainbow Iris Farm
Presented in conjunction with the Greater Kansas City Iris Society
Anita B. Gorman Conservation Discovery Center
4750 Troost, Kansas City, Missouri 64110
Kelly Norris convinced his parents to buy an iris nursery in 2001 and move it to their family farm. He was just 14 and now at age 24 he manages the nursery, breeds iris and even has upcoming book on iris from Timber Press. He is going to share some of his vast knowledge of bearded iris with us in this special luncheon presentation.
The GCA has partnered with the Greater Kansas City Iris Society, a GCA affiliate for this program. The cost is $7 ($5 for members of either partner organization) and includes a soup luncheon with rolls, cookies and iced tea.
You can register below or send your check made out to GCA to Brian Chadwick-Robinson, 6911 NW Blair Road, Parkville, MO 64152. Please note on your check Iris Luncheon.
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November 19, 2011
10:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
SOLD OUT!
Long-Lasting Winter Arrangements for Home and Garden
Dianne Swann, GCA Board Member and Gardener Extraordinaire
Anita B. Gorman Discovery Center
4750 Troost
Kansas City, Missouri 64110
What to do with those containers at the front entry that were a welcoming beacon Spring, Summer and Fall but with the frost says more bah humbug than welcome friend? Let the GCA show you how with this Long-lasting Winter Arrangements workshop presented by our very own Dianne Swann who is well known for creating arrangements from her own garden.
You bring the container, whether it is a flower pot, vase or old metal bucket and we will provide the inspiration and supplies to make your very own arrangement. We will be using a variety of interesting twigs, seed heads, dried flowers and other miscellany from garden and field to create a one of a kind arrangement for your home or garden. If you have any material from your garden you would like to include in your arrangement or share with others bring it along too. We will be having a soup luncheon to end the workshop and admire everyone’s handiwork.
The workshop will be from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Conservation Discovery Center 4750 Troost, Kansas City with soup luncheon to follow the arrangement making. The cost of the workshop and soup luncheon is $20.00. Space is limited to GCA members only. |
March 17, 2012
10:00 a.m.
Life on the Edge: Tough Plants for Tough Places
Kelly Norris, Author and Plantsmen
Anita B. Gorman Conservation Discovery Center
4750 Troost, Kansas City, Missouri 64110
Some of you may remember Kelly from previous presentations to the GCA. He is energetic, passionate about gardening and does so just 120 or so miles north of Kansas City so he knows what the weather in this part of the country can do to a garden and its gardener. We are all looking for that plant to add to our garden that will not only survive but will shrug off most whatever comes its way and shine. This is your opportunity to do just that.
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January 15, 2011
10:00 a.m.
What's New for 2011
Rita and George Arnold, Arnold's Greenhouse
Anita B. Gorman Discovery Center
4750 Troost
Kansas City, Missouri 64110
 Rita Arnold of Arnold's Nursery in Leroy, Kansas also a perennial favorite of the GCA will bring us up to date with, "What's New in 2011." Enjoy a full color tour of the latest offerings in annuals, perennials, vegetables and more that will be coming this Spring.
It might be the dead of Winter at the moment and garden fun may seem like years away but Rita Arnold of Arnold's Greenhouse and the GCA have just the cure for those Winter blahs.
Join us for the ever popular sneak peak of the new must have plants for our gardens. The 2011 list of what's new and exciting, promises to fill our heads with ideas to spice up, fill in and perhaps make us redesign our gardens entirely. In any case, pencils will surely be flying to write down and check off the latest offerings in annuals, perennials, vegetables and more that will be coming this Spring that we just have to have for our own.
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January 21, 2012
10:00 a.m.
Cool New Annuals and Perennials that Perform Beautifully in Kansas City
Dan Parcel, retail director Kaw Valley Greenhouses
Make sure you have renewed your membership for 2012. Get your door prize ticket and win a beautiful leaf sculpture or one of five $25 gift certificates to Kaw Valley Greenhouses. Join now.
Anita B. Gorman Conservation Discovery Center
4750 Troost, Kansas City, Missouri 64110
A most favorite pastime for gardeners in January is anticipating what new plant is in store for the coming gardening season.
To feed the dreaming, join the Garden Center Association of Greater Kansas City as we discover “Cool New Annuals & Perennials that Perform Beautifully in Kansas City” at 10 a.m. on Jan. 21 at the Anita B. Gorman Conservation Discovery Center, 4750 Troost. See the latest introductions and the must have garden plants of the season.
The management at the Discovery Center has decided we may not offer coffee and nosh before the program, but please come early to get a good seat and grab handouts.
Dan Parcel, who has been retail director for Manhattan, Kan.-based Kaw Valley Greenhouses for 22 years, will present the program.
Kaw Valley Greenhouses operates some 20 seasonal garden centers in the KC area.
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February 19, 2011
10 a.m.
Superlative Vegetable Varieties for Growing in Kansas City
Ben Sharda, executive director Kansas City Community Gardens
Anita B. Gorman Discover Center
4750 Troost
Kansas City, Missouri 64110
Vegetables need not be boring or something you avoid at dinner. They can be show pieces of your garden and tasty home-grown additions to culinary exploration.
The GCA welcomes Ben Sharda of the Kansas City Community Gardens to share his suggestions for the best vegetable varieties for growing in Kansas City gardens as well as some unusual vegetables you may have never heard of or just never thought about growing. |
May 21, 2011
10:00 a.m.
 Planting Heirlooms in Your Garden
Diane Ott Whealy, co-founder of Seed Savers Exchange
Anita B. Gorman Discovery Center
4750 Troost
Kansas City, Missouri 64110
For many of us, the point of growing our own vegetables is to have something special, a little quirky but great, something we can't get from the supermarket.
Get tips on choosing and planting heirloom seeds and simple seed saving instructions. Get suggestions of heirloom vegetables, flowers and herbs to try and hear some of the stories associated with them and ways to incorporate them into edible landscapes, containers and kitchen gardens.
Founded in 1975, Seed Savers Exchange operates an 890-acre farm in northeast Iowa where thousands of rare fruit, vegetable, and other plant varieties are regenerated and preserved in a central collection. Its mission is saving the world’s diverse, but endangered, garden heritage for future generations by building a network of people committed to collecting, conserving and sharing heirloom seeds and plants, while educating people about the value of genetic and cultural diversity. |
June 25, 2011
2:30 p.m.
The Art of the Kitchen Garden
Ethne Clark, editor in chief of Organic Gardening magazine
Tickets for this event are $10 the proceeds of which support Powell Gardens. Tickets can be purchased from Powell Gardens.
Powell Gardens
1609 NW US Highway 50
Kingsville, Missouri 64061
"The Art of the Kitchen Garden" based on Ethne Clark's book. It's a look at the evolution of cooking and vegetable growing from the late medieval period to the early 19th century. The book was featured in Alice Waters' bibliography for her book on vegetable cookery.
Clarke is the editor in chief of Organic Gardening magazine and a former garden editor at Traditional Home magazine, and was previously a contributing editor at House & Garden magazine. As a freelance garden editor, author, and journalist in the UK, she has written for a wide range of notable magazines including The American Gardener, Country Life, Horticulture, and Homes and Gardens. Her many books include Water Features for Small Gardens, Autumn Gardens, and Three Seasons of Summer: Gardening with Annuals and Biennials.
Clarke was the recipient of the 1987 Angel Literary Award for Art of the Kitchen Garden. She has a Master of Philosophy in Art and Design from DeMontfort University.
This program is sponsored by the Garden Center Association of Greater Kansas City in conjunction with Powell Gardens. |
 June 26, 2011
2:00 p.m.
Circles of Influence: American Influence on the Course of 20th Century Architecture and Garden Design in Europe
Ethne Clarke, editor in chief of Organic Gardening magazine
The Kansas City Public Library - Central Library
14 West 10th Street
Kansas City, Missouri 64105
The Edwardian Era sometimes has been called the "Gilded Age." It was a time when the rich did not hid the privileges they enjoyed, and the sun never set on the British Empire, and gardeners in Europe had an exciting bounty of plants from the world over to use in their gardens.
Join Ethne Clarke as she takes us on a journey through gardens of this time and the grandness and atmosphere that surrounds them even to this day. The gardens of designer, Cecil Pinsent and Hidcote will be the focus of the discussion.
The much storied Hidcote an Arts and Crafts style garden of "rooms" that bridged the formal and natural schools of design. A showcase for the ever-expanding selection of plant material from the far reaches of the globe and the standard for how plant collections could be showcased in the garden.
 The gardens of Cecil Pinsent, a garden designer in Tuscany, who's grand gardens for a circle of wealthy Americans, English and Italians that imbued art and literature into the garden.
Clarke is the editor in chief of Organic Gardening magazine and a former garden editor at Traditional Home magazine, and was previously a contributing editor at House & Garden magazine. As a freelance garden editor, author, and journalist in the UK, she has written for a wide range of notable magazines including The American Gardener, Country Life, Horticulture, and Homes and Gardens. Her many books include Water Features for Small Gardens, Autumn Gardens, and Three Seasons of Summer: Gardening with Annuals and Biennials.
Clarke was the recipient of the 1987 Angel Literary Award for Art of the Kitchen Garden. She has a Master of Philosophy in Art and Design from DeMontfort University.
This program is being being cosponsored by:
the Friends of the Kansas City Public Library along with the Garden Center Association of Greater Kansas City.
 
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