Cool Thursday Concerts
Tickets are on sale now. Be sure to check out our new Signature Series concerts. Spend your Thursday nights at the coolest place in town!
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Are you sick of looking at overgrown hedges? Are your foundation plantings the most exciting part of your yard? Well it's time to give your landscape a total makeover. You don't have to have a boring yard! Judy Fender, owner of Designs from the Garden, is here to help! Learn simple techniques to rejuvenate your landscape, which plants will give your yard the zip it needs and basic design tips to turn boring into beautiful. Date: Saturday, May 3, 2008 Time: 9am to 11am Fee: $22 or $20 for Members. $22.00 | Often defined by strong lines and geometric shapes, formal gardens have a strong history and a look that is all their own. Learn the principles of formal design and how they relate to your garden today, how to use plants and hardscape to define spaces and create garden rooms throughout your landscape and then try your hand laying out a formal design for your landscape. Date: Saturday, May 10, 2008 Time: 12pm to 2pm Fee: $26 or $23 for Members. $26.00 | Picture a landscape with beautiful curving beds and lush plantings and you are beginning to imagine an informal garden. This popular style has come in and out of fashion over the years, and has found resurgence with the development of the suburban home. These gardens are often cozy and inviting and ever popular in today's landscape. Bring plans and photographs and lay out an informal design for your landscape. Date: Saturday, May 17, 2008 Time: 12pm to 2pm Fee: $26 or $23 for Members. $26.00 |
Date: 5/10 & 5/17 Time: 12pm to 2pm Fee: $47 or $42 for Members. $47.00 | Installing your landscape is the hardest part of any landscaping job, but what do you do once everything is in the ground? Join Derek Little, Texas Certified Nursery Professional and author of Read This Before You Go Out Into The Yard, as he shows you how to get your landscape off to a great start and keep it beautiful once it's established. Come find out how to keep your plants thriving from year to year. Date: Saturday, May 10, 2008 Time: 9am to 11am Fee: $22 or $20 for Members. $22.00 | Shady places need love too! Using containers in your shady spots can add a touch or excitement. Find out which shade plants will work well in containers, what kind of maintenance they will require and how to use texture and foliage to create drama. Date: Saturday, May 10, 2008 Time: 12pm to 2pm Fee: $22 or $20 for Members. $22.00 |
Find out how to create beautiful containers for anywhere in your garden. Learn how to choose the right color combinations for the most impact, which plants have the longest bloom period, how to create a successful container planting, great plant combinations and more. Date: Saturday, May 10, 2008 Time: 9am to 11am Fee: $22 or $20 for Members. $22.00 | Date: Saturday, May 10, 2008 Time: 9am to 2pm Fee: $40 or $36 for Members. $40.00 | Color defines garden spaces, it structures garden choreography, it excites imaginations, and it stirs souls. A strong overall color structure with its implied meanings and emotions is essential to creating a powerful experience and identity for any garden. Join Tres Fromme, Associate with MESA Design Group, as he introduces you to the important role that color plays throughout the garden. Tres will use images from European and American gardens to provide inspirational examples of how color works with other design elements to create magical, engaging, and memorable spaces. Date: Saturday, May 17, 2008 Time: 12pm to 2pm Fee: $22 or $20 for Members. $22.00 |
Now that you know the basics of creating a water wise garden, it's time to start thinking plants. Join Rebecca Stanczak, owner of Moonflower Gardens and Chairman of the TNLA Dallas region, as she shows you the best plants to choose for your new garden. Find out how to add color and texture to create a beautiful garden that saves time and money! Date: Saturday, May 17, 2008 Time: 9am to 11am Fee: $22 or $20 for Members. $22.00 | Give your landscape a touch of the tropics! Join Diana Harris, owner of Lifestyle Gardens and Texas Certified Landscape Professional, as she show you some simple ways to turn your landscape into a tropical oasis using unusual plants from warmer climates that do well in Dallas. Learn how to create an exotic look in your garden, how to select the right hardy plants for your garden, which plants are well adapted to our climate and more. Part of the class will be spent exploring the Hardy Palm & Tropical garden to see the plants that do well in Dallas. Date: Saturday, May 31, 2008 Time: 9am to 11am Fee: $22 or $20 for Members. $22.00 |
