Horticultural Alliance of the Hamptons

Library Hours

Saturdays from 10:00am - 1:00pm
Before/After monthly meetings and Public Lectures

Public Lectures
2012

Sundays at 2:00pm

Lectures held at Bridgehampton Community House
A $10.00 donation is requested for non-members.

Jan 8 ...Brian Mahoney, "Backhoes before Blossoms"
Feb 12...Rick Bogush, "Growing & Cooking with Herbs in the Garden"
Mar 11...Page Dickey, "Embroidered Ground: Revisiting the Garden"
Apr 15...Harvey Feinstein, "How to Grow Roses without Killing Them or Yourself"
May 6 ...Magda Selvesen, "Exploring Gardens & Green Spaces: From Connecticut to the Delaware Valley"
Jun 10 ...Jack deLashmet, "Hamptons Gardens"

No Lectures in July and August.

Sep 9 ...C. Colston Burrell, "Seasonal Splendor: Year Round Color in the Shade Garden"
Oct 14...Frank Hyman, "Five Deer Resistant Gardens"
Nov 4 ...Ethne Clarke, "An Infinity of Graces: The Italian Villas and Gardens of Cecil Pinsent"
Dec 9 ...Matt Stedman, Ft. Pond Native Plants
Rick Bogush
Sunday, February 12, 2:00 PM.
“Growing & Cooking with Herbs in the Garden”

Garden manager of Bridge Gardens, a stewardship project of the Peconic Land Trust. He previously spent 20 years designing gardens and plantings for the arboretum and botanical garden at Cornell University, where he obtained his masters degree in landscape architecture, and 10 years working with large private estate gardens in Old Chatham, NY. Mr. Bogusch began cooking with herbs at a young age. His talk will focus on those he is cultivating in Bridge Gardens’ culinary bed, showing how to incorporate a wide variety of herbs in cooking and to create distinctive vinegars and oils with them, as well as to enjoy their ornamental benefits.





Non-members of the Horticultural Alliance are asked for a $10 donation to attend the lecture; members are admitted free. Refreshments will be served.

Book Discussion Group
First Saturday of the month,11AM.
March 3, 2012
The final meeting of the 2011-2012 Winter Book Discussion Group is sure to be an exciting windup to this most successful series. On Saturday, March 3, at 11:00 a.m., new reviewer Susan Brackett will discuss A Clearing in the Distance, stating “I love love love this book---what a wonderful man!” That would be Frederick Law Olmstead of, among many others, Central Park fame. Elaine Peterson gives us The Tree, a book-length essay by English novelist John Fowles (The Magus, the Collector, French Lieutenant’s Woman), whose father was a gardener. This book is described as “a classic meditation on creativity and the natural world.” And Hat Edwards will enthuse about Flora Mirabilis, by Catherine Howell. This book is subtitled “How plants have shaped world knowledge, health, wealth, and beauty,” which is a tall order indeed; hear how it was done. As usual, you can read some, all or none of these books; just come and hear about what your library has to offer, in the words of HAH member reviewers.
Horticultural Library, ground floor of the Bridgehampton Community House. Admission free to all.


Roundtable Discussion Group
Third Sat. of the month at 10am, in the LoGerfo Library, Bridgehampton Community House. Admission free.
George Simonson, Chair
February 18, 2012 Informal study and discussion, "MAPLES". Re-scheduled from 1/21/12
Workshop Schedule 2012

HAH Open Days Program

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