The Inspired Gardener

Symposium & Silent Auction

Saturday, February 23
8 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.

Gardening is a creative endeavor through which we strive to express our senses and integrate our interior and exterior living spaces. We anticipate each season with renewed energy and the desire to apply our ever-increasing gardening knowledge and skills. Join us for a day of inspiration as we learn from the experts and prepare for the abundance of the coming seasons.

The Program
The Speakers

Fee: $79 (Garden and GPPA* members $69)

Presented in partnership with the Georgia Perennial Plant Association

*If you are a GPPA member but NOT a member of the Garden, please create a user account and input your GPPA discount coupon code at check out to receive your member discount.

Registration Closed

The Program

8 a.m. | Check-in
Silent Auction Bidding Begins

Stimulate Me! Designing for the Senses
Presented by Tres Fromme

Perennial Gardening at the Biltmore Estate
Presented by Parker Andes

Your House, Your Garden
Presented by Gordon Hayward

12:30 p.m. | Lunch & Book Signing

Friends in the Shade: Keep Your Hosta Company
Presented by Jason Reeves

Four Seasons Of Container Gardening
Presented by Rita Randolph

3:30 p.m. | Symposium Concludes
Retrieve Silent Auction Merchandise

The Speakers

Stimulate Me! Designing for the Senses
Tres Fromme is the Landscape Design and Planning Manager for the Atlanta Botanical Garden. He believes that compelling gardens result from skillfully choreographed layers of sight, smell, taste, and emotive associations that span the seasons and the years. Drawing on examples from around the world and his own work, Tres will share various ways to infuse your personal landscape with sensual richness and drama.

Perennial Gardening at the Biltmore Estate
Parker Andes, Director of Horticulture at the Biltmore Estate, will offer background on the Biltmore Estate Gardens and discuss how he gives the herbaceous borders a strong presence throughout the year. Learn how Parker plans graceful transitions between seasons, providing show-stopping four season interest to this stunning Southern estate.

Your House, Your Garden
Gordon Hayward is a nationally recognized garden designer, writer and lecturer based in Vermont. One of his specialties is integrating the home and garden, using every available space to surround oneself with the garden. The idea that your house is the center of your garden is both an aesthetic notion and a practical tool. This lecture comes out of Hayward’s fifth book, Your House Your Garden, which The American Horticultural Society named a top five garden book in 2004.

Friends in the Shade: Keep Your Hosta Company
Jason Reeves is the University of Tennessee Gardens research horticulturist working out of the West Tennessee Research and Education Center in Jackson, Tennessee. Once considered limited and hosta-dominated, the exuberant array of shade plants now found in the nursery industry offers four seasons of excitement. Reeves will focus on colorful foliage, both evergreen and deciduous, while highlighting how your shade garden can also flaunt flowers year-round.

Four Seasons Of Container Gardening
Rita Randolph is a life-long horticulturist, photographer and published author. From the warmth of spring to the depths of winter, container gardening is widely successful if containers are prepared correctly. Whether it’s extreme heat or frigid cold, moisture or drought, your containers can be beautiful year round. Annuals, perennials, conifers and shrubs will be addressed. From the smallest pot to commercial installations, Rita’s slides will inspire you.