Greetings: Below is an announcement about an upcoming event. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me.
Craig Craig Cramer<http://www.hort.cornell.edu/gardening/cdc/> Communications Specialist Department of Horticulture<http://hort.cals.cornell.edu/> Cornell University 147D Plant Science Ithaca, N.Y. 14853 607-255-5428 Flower bulb expert, author to speak at Cornell Flower bulb expert and author Anna Pavord will speak on "A Luxuriance of Bulbs" at 11 a.m., Saturday March 20 at the Statler Hall Auditorium on the Cornell University campus. The talk is free and open to the public. Pavord has been the gardening correspondent for The Independent (UK)<http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/house-and-home/gardening/> since 1986 and has written eight books, including the international bestseller The Tulip<http://www.bloomsburyusa.com/books/catalog/tulip_pb_309> and 2009's Bulb<http://www.octopusbooks.co.uk/bulb>. "Of all the different plants in the world, bulbs intrigue me the most," says Pavord. "As a gardener, I appreciate the way they mark the seasons. Bulbs are not just a spring thing. In this talk I introduce some of my favorites and suggest how they might be used in a garden." Pavord is also the author of New Kitchen Garden, Border Book, and Plant Partners. She was one of the founding editors of Gardens Illustrated and wrote and presented Flowering Passions for BBC Channel 4 television. She has lived in Dorset for almost forty years. After restoring the garden of an old rectory, she recently moved to a new garden, which she is filling with bulbs. # # # _______________________________________________ For more information about sustainability in the Tompkins County area, please visit: http://www.sustainabletompkins.org/ RSS, archives, subscription & listserv information for: [email protected] http://lists.mutualaid.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainabletompkins Questions about the list? ask [email protected] free hosting by http://www.mutualaid.org
