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What's Coming Up in the Garden?
April 5, 2012
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SAVE THE DATE!
HAPPY IN THEIR HABITATS
Choosing the Right Plant for the Right Place
Get a jump start on the season with our fabulous annual plant sale, which has become an iconic harbinger of spring in the Berkshires. This year's sale features plants appropriate to northeastern gardens, organized into the habitats in which they thrive. Choose from 5,000+ plants, many propagated at Berkshire Botanical Garden and not available elsewhere. Plus, hanging baskets
perfect for Mothers' Day!
A Gardener's Dream!
Free plant advice from knowledgeable gardeners and a Container Design Station, where professionals will work with you to create
one-of-a-kind container gardens to take home.
Back by Popular Demand!Regional and local vendors with their collections of plants, antiques and
vintage/modern items for garden, patio, and home.
Vegetable and Small-Fruit Plants! Organic herbs and vegetables from Monkshood Nursery & Garden and small-fruit plants from Nourse Nurseries, including raspberries, strawberries, blueberries.
And More!
This year, the Botanical Garden's expanded shop will stock everything you need to start the season. And don't miss the popular Not Your Mother's Tag Sale!
For more information on the plant sale, click here
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Don't miss our upcoming classes!Pruning for
Fruit Production Pome and Stone Fruit
Trees & Small Fruits Saturday, April 7
10am - 3pm
Learn the principles of pruning for shape, size, and fruit production of stone and pome fruit trees and some small fruits, including cane fruits and ribes. Instructor Steve McKay, Grape and Small Fruit Specialist for Cornell Cooperative Extension in eastern New York State, will give a structural pruning demonstration on newly planted fruit trees. Members: $55;Nonmembers: $65 This is an off-site class held in Sheffield, MA. Directions available: call 413-298-3926. ***Making More Plants
Notching, Rossing, Cutting!
Saturday, April 1410am - noon 
Learn unusual techniques including notching of trillium, rossing hosta and dividing native orchids. Participants will take home some unusual plant material to
"grow on" at home.
Instructor Leo Blanchette, owner of Blanchette Gardens in Carlisle, Massachusetts, will discuss seed sowing, root cuttings, stem cuttings and more!
Members: $37;Nonmembers: $45 ***
Composting for Gardeners Designing an Active
Compost PileSaturday, April 141 - 3pm
The first step to a healthy, sustainable garden is a great compost pile. Discover the differences between active and passive compost pile building, explore compost pile structures and learn what will work for you. Taught by Pat Parkins, owner of Gardens of the Goddess, an organic gardening business.Members: $22;Nonmembers: $27 ***
Click here to register online, or call 413-298-3926.
Become a Garden Member and save on classes, workshops and much more. Read about it here.
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Call for Volunteers Would you like to volunteer at the Garden? The Garden has a need for volunteers to work in the Garden Gift Shop and to help with office administration, weeding and planting, and special events! Morning and afternoon shifts are available. Contact Sharon Hulett-Shepherd, Volunteer Coordinator,
at 413-298-3926, x14 or
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GIMME SHELTER:
Architects Design for Shade
Reception, Saturday, April 28,
5 -7 pm
 Join us for the opening reception of our
first exhibition of 2012.
Enjoy an architect-lead tour of four distinct shade structures while enjoying refreshments from our famous Wheelbarrow Bar!
Don't miss this opportunity to preview the Garden's spring bloom and toast the spectacular
work of local artisans!
Featuring designs from:
New England Modern & Co., Crisp Architects, Burr & McCallum Architects and Kristine Sprague.
Tickets: $25 members, $30 nonmembers
To reserve, call 413-298-3926 or register online.
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FARM IN THE GARDEN
Summer Camp! Weekly Sessions, July 9 - August 3 
Join us for a new, full-day summer camp for children ages 5 to 10 held on the beautiful grounds of Berkshire Botanical Garden in partnership with The Farm Education Collaborative.
Our days will be filled with tending resident animals, gardening, cooking and baking the food we grow, arts and crafts, singing, games water play and much more!
* Children's Food Production Garden
* Hands on animal care
* Growing, preparing, cooking, and eating the food that we grow
* Weekly child-run farm stand for families
* Sharing and celebrating together at the Friday Farm Feast
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Master Gardeners'
Horticultural Hotline
Have gardening questions? The Western Massachusetts Horticultural Hotline is live every Monday, 9am - noon, through September. Call 413-298-5355 or stop in at the Center House at Berkshire Botanical Garden where Master Gardener volunteers are on duty! To visit the Western Massachusetts
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For more information about
Berkshire Botanical Garden
call:
413.298.3926
check out our website: www.berkshirebotanical.org.
write:
Berkshire Botanical Garden
PO Box 826, Stockbridge, MA. 01262
email:
info@berkshirebotanical.org
visit:
intersection of Routes 102 & 183, Stockbridge, MA
Open from 9 am - 5 pm daily.
We look forward to meeting you!
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