How to Build Paradise
How the beauty of the World has inspired my work

Friday, September 18, 2009 at 11:00 a.m.
with Jeffrey Bale

Originally trained as a landscape architect, Jeffrey Bale is an Oregon native working out of the wonderful city of Portland.  A life of World travel has inspired a garden design/build business with often decadent results.  “The garden for me is the most sensual place to be aside from the wilds of nature” says Jeffrey.  Finely executed stonework embellishes and frames rich plant combinations, to create a foretaste of Heaven.

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Guess What Grows in Heaven's Gardens?
Stories of Magical Apples, Peaches & Pomegranates

Sunday, September 20, 2009 at 11:00 a.m. (in Topher Delaney’s Garden)
with Beatrice Bowles

A storytelling spin through the world’s most mythical and magical gardens with NAPPA award-winning storyteller Beatrice Bowles.

A changing aesthetic - gardens, politics and culture

Friday, September 18, 2009 at 12:00 Noon
with Marion Brenner

Gardens throughout history have reflected the political culture of their times. Today, we are re-evaluating what it means to garden, with climate, the economy and our relation to the rest of the world foremost in our minds.

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Intention + Attention

Saturday, September 19, 2009 at 11:00 a.m.
with Topher Delaney

Topher Delaney will focus on the question of why we garden = the intention + how we garden = the attention of gardening + observation of process, from growth to aphids. The ultimate question is how to maintain a balance, which is, to a degree, what we all seek.

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Garden Art May be the Best Revenge
(From da Vinci to Duquette)

Sunday, September 20, 2009 at 1:00 p.m.
with Ken Druse

One good thing about ornament in our landscapes -- art doesn't need watering. A plant and garden guru looks at sculpture, paint and homemade works to promote nonliving embellishment in these times of resource conservation. Ken also delves into the back stories and secret lives of our beloved plants to raise ecological consciousness among gardeners and non-gardeners, alike.

The Simplified Garden:
How to Create a Productive, Stylish, Eco-Friendly Garden
and Still Have the Time to Enjoy It

Saturday, September 19, 2009 at 2:00 p.m.
with Val Easton

Is over-the-top gardening over? You’ll learn the secrets and techniques of innovative gardeners and designers around the country who are creating cool, stylish gardens without depleting the earth’s resources nor the gardener’s own. Valerie's book "The New Low Maintenance Garden" is due out this fall from Timber Press.

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The Fire Safe Sustainable Garden

Sunday, September 20, 2009 at 3:00 p.m.
with Dave Egbert

Create beautiful, sustainable, water-wise, flowering gardens that can protect you, your home, and the brave firefighters who defend your neighborhood from the threat of wildfire. Recent wildfires have ravaged neighborhoods statewide, but some of the destruction could have been avoided by employing creative, colorful, landscape solutions. Dave Egbert, plantsman and firefighter, shows ways to create defensible space using perennials, natives, roses, outdoor living spaces, and edible landscaping to create a Lean, Clean, and Green Zone of defensible space around your home.

Engage

Friday, September 18, 2009 at 2:00 p.m.
with Mike Evans

A garden should be much more than just decorated outdoor spaces.  A garden can become a place and an opportunity for involvement, interaction, and engagement, particularly for kids, and especially if the garden attracts wildlife. Native plant gardens will include hummingbirds, butterflies and pollinating insects, lizards, frogs and a myriad of "fellow mortals" (as John Muir called our animal friends) which always provide great delight to everyone involved. This talk will consider the philosophy of engagement and discuss the specific techniques for making a California garden.

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Caliterranean:
Low-Water Gardening with a Mediterranean/Californian Plant Palette

Saturday, September 19, 2009 at 3:00 p.m.
with Tom Fischer

The Mediterranean basin has given West Coast gardeners a large and varied plant palette, rich in both beauty and historical associations. When combined with the equally rich and beautiful palette of western North American plants, the result is a gardener’s dream: a dynamic, drought-tolerant melding of the Old World with the New, the exotic with the native, the tame with the wild.

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The Gardener's Guide to Global Warming:
Challenges and Solutions

Friday, September 18, 2009 at 10:00 a.m.
with Patty Glick

Patty Glick, Senior Global Warming Specialist at the National Wildlife Federation, will provide an overview of climate change in California, what it means for gardeners and - most importantly - how we all can be part of the solutions.

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Shrubs for the Northern California Garden

Saturday, September 19, 2009 at 4:00 p.m.
with Roger Gossler

You too can have the Northwest look in your garden shrubs and small trees that are tolerant of drier conditions.

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Deep Flora:
Exploring South Africa's Botanical Treasure Trove

Sunday, September 20, 2009 at 12:00 pm
with Martin Grantham

Western South Africa's Cape Province is home to the mildest of Earth's big 5 Mediterranean climate zones. It's plant diversity is staggering. Least explored are the dryer northern exposures of the many mountain ranges, as well as transition zones from succulent Karoo to isolated mountain fynbos in the north. These are the very areas most likely to yield tough plants for California gardens. The speaker will share experiences in the field and in the garden with a variety of novel South African plants of horticultural note, listing those with the greatest drought tolerance and soil adaptability in his experience and including some discussion of plant evaluation, the pros and cons of exotic vs. native plant use, and the inherent strength of diverse garden plantings.

Gardening Under Global Warming

Friday, September 18, 2009 at 1:00 p.m.
with Mark Hertsgaard

Like everyone on earth, gardeners will find their world turned upside down by global warming over the next ten years and beyond. If you want to create and maintain gardens that will endure, you must understand how global warming and climate change will affect your work. Author and journalist Mark Hertsgaard has covered climate change throughout the world for twenty years for outlets ranging from Vanity Fair and The New Yorker to NPR, Time and The Nation. He has spent much of the past six months investigating how climate change will alter weather and growing conditions worldwide and – equally important – how those who work the land can adapt their practices to increase resilience and sustainability.

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Planting Within Our Means: Native and Drought Tolerant Plants - The New "In Thing"

Friday, September 18, 2009 at 4:00 p.m.
with Sean Hogan

The premise for a long time has been that drought tolerant and native plants were left to the realm of the practical people.  These plants are not simply utilitarian... they are gorgeous and utilitarian.  We can grow these plants while other places cannot.  We will exploit all we can do with plants that love it here - from beautiful broad leaf evergreens to shrubs and perennials that offer year-round color and texture that will blow away your relatives from Iowa!

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What’s with the Climate Already?
A Gardener Looks for Solutions

Sunday, September 20, 2009 at 10:00 a.m.
with Bob Hornback

Global warming, climate change and drought are combined challenges that just won’t go away. So what’s a gardener to do? An avid plantsman presents his considered selection of appropriate and appealing plants for your modern garden.

"It doesn't always rain in Oregon!"

Sunday, September 20, 2009 at 11:00 a.m.
with David Mason

What will grow when water is scarce and the summers are hot and dry, coupled with heavy clay soils and 34 inches of rain between November and April? By careful soil amendment, shrewd plant selection and placement many possibilities are awaiting. Are there new opportunities?

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Bringing California Home:
Gardening With the Senses

Sunday, September 20, 2009 at 2:00 p.m.
with Bart O'Brien

Have you ever thought about gardening with California native plants, but you aren’t familiar with them enough to take the plunge? Bart O’Brien will answer some of your questions about these plants and will introduce you to some of the most interesting and beautiful California natives for your garden. These are plants that will engage all of your senses: smell, taste, touch, sight, sound – and that will connect you and your garden to the larger California landscape.

Art & Architecture in the Garden:
When Flowers Are Not Enough

Saturday, September 19, 2009 at 10:00 a.m.
with Richard Turner

When water is restricted, it’s still possible to have a colorful and eye-catching garden. Consider the model set by centuries of gardens in the equally dry Mediterranean region of Southern Europe. Architectural elements, such as walls and pathways, are ornamented with tile and color. Overhead structures add shadows to enliven smooth surfaces. Sculptural pieces introduce form and color. Water features sparkle in the sunlight and draw wildlife that add movement to the garden. Who needs flowers?

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Andrea Testa-Vought

Gardening for Wildlife with Native Plants

Saturday, September 19, 2009 at 12:00 Noon
with Phil Van Soelen

Imagine an intimate relationship with your own garden, rich in plants native to the Mediterranean west and to your immediate locale. Try slowing down enough to really see the little wild things that frequent and are sustained in the garden by the plants and living soil. Build an understanding of the way the native plants and animals have co-evolved and how our gardens can soothe us and help to heal the Earth.

Beyond Sustainable: 
Inspiration and art in 21st century garden design
Or what a 25 cent 1930's deep green velvet bias cut evening gown
taught me about life

Friday, September 18, 2009 at 3:00 p.m.
with Shirley Alexandra Watts

Everyone is going ‘green’ and talking about sustainability. In designing gardens for ourselves and others we make choices about our impact on the environment and the aesthetics of our living spaces. Starting with the belief that reusing is better than recycling and low impact can inspire brilliant design, Shirley will discuss how being ‘conservative’ can be hip and letting your imagination run wild is a better hobby than shopping.

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