Using Ornamental Grasses in Your Garden

1:00 PM - 4:00 PM

The workshop will consist of both a classroom session and an outdoor tour of the garden highlighting the different ways of employing ornamental grasses as an integral part of a modern garden landscape. Each will be approximately 1½ hours in duration.

During the classroom session, the emphasis will be on the aesthetics of gardening with ornamental grasses. The versatility of grasses will be explored with sections on mass plantings, statement specimens, integration in perennial borders and the use in containers will all be covered. The development of the new demonstration ornamental grass garden at HCP and the instructor's home garden will be used extensively to illustrate these concepts.

The second part of the classroom session will explore the ever-expanding palate of available grasses to work with. As well as native species there will also be an in-depth review of the most popular exotic grass varieties for our area with an emphasis on the newest cultivars. Finally, there will be an introduction to some of the more interesting new species and cultivars that are becoming available locally.

The outdoor session will consist of a tour of the newly developing demonstration grass garden followed by a tour of the rest of the garden to illustrate more well-established areas where grasses have been used to best effect.

Please see the link below to register:

https://hcp.ca/event/using-ornamental-grasses-in-your-garden/