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TURNER — Garden design, color and tomatoes will be the topics at the Turner Public Library Annual Spring Seminar in Gardening in April.
The program begins at 9 a.m., Saturday, April 15, in the Leavitt Institute Building in Turner Center.
The schedule starts in the Community Room at with free coffee and Ricker Hill donuts. At this time, participants will be able to sign up for door prizes donated by Turner businesses, according to a news release from the library.
The first speaker, at 9:30 a.m., will be Edith Ellis, who will speak on color, texture and plant placement in the perennial border. Ellis, a Maine certified nursery and landscape professional for more than 30 years, owned and operated Sunnyside Gardens on North Parish Road in Turner for 25 years. Sunnyside Gardens is now a private garden but welcomes visitors by appointment. Ellis will speak on design, color in the garden and the various gardens she has visited in her travels, and participants will learn how to create a garden that truly pleases the eye, according to the release.
The second speaker is long-time Maine Organic Farmer and Gardener Association farmer Amy LeBlanc of Whitehill Farm in East Wilton. LeBlanc has grown hundreds of varieties of heirloom tomatoes to sell as seedlings and for their fruit, while passing her knowledge and work ethic on to young helpers each year, the release noted. She also is an active member of the Common Ground Fair Steering Committee and is a participant in the Sandy River Farmers’ Market. Her talk is “Fabulous Tomatoes: From the Garden to the Table.”
“The morning will conclude with a round-table discussion, a bountiful and fun lunch and sale of Whitehill Farm products, Hummingbird Farm herbs and Clark Farm plants,” the release said.
