Tuesday, September 21st
6:30 PM
Black Rock Branch

Garden writer, educator, lecturer and coach, Colleen Plimpton presents Good Night My Garden, an approximately one-hour interactive presentation on how to put your garden to bed. Focusing on both ornamental and vegetable plantings, Colleen demonstrates the best and easiest way to prepare your patch of Mother Earth for the long sleep ahead.

 Among the topics discussed are:

 1.   what to cut down and what to leave up

2.   composting

3.   successful bulb planting

4.   critter control

5.   pond preparation

6.   lawns

7.   autumn leaves

8.   containers

9.   fertilizing and pruning, yes or no?

10. the last bouquet of autumn

Garden writer, educator, lecturer and coach, Colleen Plimpton trained at the New York Botanical Garden, and has tended her sloping Connecticut acre for 18 years. She’s appeared on Good Morning America, and PBS; and has been interviewed on WCBS NewsRadio 880. She pens the weekly gardening column for the Danbury News-Times, teaches at the New York Botanical Garden, and writes for publications such as GreenPrints, The Litchfield Review, People, Places & Plants, Connecticut Gardener, and Toastmaster. Her garden memoir, Mentors in the Garden of Life was issued by Park East Press in May, 2010.

Colleen looks upon each day as a challenge and an opportunity to learn more about the wonderful world of nature. She and her husband, Jerry Shike, have raised 3 children, who now reside in China, Connecticut, and Florida.

Visit her blog at http://www.colleenplimpton.blogspot/ or her website at http://www.colleenplimpton.com/