Karen Bussolini - Jazzing
Up the Garden With Color & Contrast
3:30 PM
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Rob Dietter - Watergardening Basics
Rob Dietter - Watergardening Basics
Matthew R. Opel, PhD
Matt Opel is a specialist in several groups of desert plants and other exotics, and has published articles in books and journals dealing with cactus and succulents, as well as carnivorous plants. He has traveled to the American Southwest and South Africa multiple times in order to conduct botanical research. He has a degree in biology from Cornell University, and a PhD in botany from the University of Connecticut. He currently works as a horticulturist in the teaching and research greenhouses in UConn's Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.
Karen Bussolini has been a gardener as
long as she can remember. She trained as a painter and had a career as an architectural
photographer before specializing in garden photography, writing and lecturing.
Her photographs have appeared in Garden Design, Horticulture, House Beautiful, House
and Garden, This Old House, Traditional Home, Better Homes and Gardens, The American
Gardener, Perennials, Native Plants, Organic Gardening, Country Living Gardener,
McCall’s, Home, Metropolitan Home, Yankee, The New York Times and in many
other magazines and books published throughout the world.
She was sole photographer for five books:
The Homeowner’s Complete Tree and Shrub Manual (Storey Publishing
2007), Elegant Silvers: Striking Plants
for Every Garden (Timber Press 2005), which she co-wrote with Jo
Ann Gardner, The Unsung Season: Gardens
and Gardeners in Winter (Houghton Mifflin, 1995),
A Country Garden for Your Backyard (Rodale Press 1993),
Backyard Design: Making the Most of the Space Around Your House
(Bulfinch Press, 1991, 1998). Naturescape
Your Yard, a book in progress, with author Beth Young, will be published
by Timber Press in 2011.
Karen Bussolini’s writing has been published in Garden Design, House Beautiful,
Better Homes and Gardens, This Old House, The American Gardener, Woman’s Day Specials,
McCall’s, Native Plants, Threads, Connecticut Home and Garden, Green Scene,
Reader’s Digest Books’ Home Improvements Manual and other publications.
Her weekly column in The Millbrook Independent explored the connections
between gardens, the environment and the local community. She is known for her writing
on gardening from personal experience.
She has presented slide lectures across the nation, to such groups as: National
meetings: The Garden Writers Association, The Perennial Plant Association.
Annual Meetings/Symposia: The Master Gardeners of Connecticut, The Herb
Society of America Connecticut and Long Island Units, The Federated Garden Clubs
of Connecticut, Ohio State University’s P.L.A.N.T. Seminars, The Kansas City Gardening
Symposium, The Rochester Civic Garden Center Annual Spring Symposium, Green Bay
Botanical Garden Fall Symposium, UConn Garden Conference, New Directions in the
American Landscape. Lecture series: The New York Botanical Garden’s “American Gardening
Lecture Series,” Santa Fe Gardens’ “Garden Gurus” seminars, The Huntington Library,
Art Collections & Botanical Gardens and The Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden garden
lecture series, The Indianapolis Museum of Art, Brookside Gardens, Green Spring
Gardens and “Gardens of the Mississippi” aboard the riverboat The American Queen.
Horticultural organizations: The Horticultural Society of New York, The
San Diego Horticultural Society, The Southern California Horticulture Society, The
Willamette Valley Hardy Plant Group, The Connecticut Horticultural Society, The
Horticultural Alliance of the Hamptons. Trade Shows: The Pennsylvania Landscape
and Nursery Association Annual Symposium, Ohio State University’s Nursery Short
Course at the CENTS nursery trade show. Flower Shows: The Chicago Flower
and Garden Show, the New England Spring Flower Show, The Connecticut Flower &
Garden Show, The Maymont Flower Show (Richmond, VA),. She has taught at The New
York Botanical Garden, Denver Botanic Gardens, The Gardens on Spring Creek in Fort
Collins, CO and Tohoono Chul Park in Tucson, AZ.
Television appearances include PBS programs “Cultivating Life,” “Central Texas
Gardener” and “Oklahoma Gardening.” She has done innumerable radio interviews.
She won Garden Writers Association awards for photography in 2001, 2004 and 2007.
When photographing, she sees the world through the eyes of a gardener and painter.
Although she travels far and wide, her roots are sunk deeply into the soil of a
deer-infested mountainside in South Kent, Connecticut.
NANCY DuBRULE-CLEMENTE
Nancy DuBrule-Clemente is the owner of Natureworks Horticultural Services, an organic
garden center, landscape design, consultation, installation and maintenance service
in Northford, Ct.
Started in 1983, the Natureworks crews and retail store have sold and used only
organic fertilizers and pest control products since the business began. Education
is the primary focus of Natureworks. Newsletters, handouts, plant catalog, website,
articles for local newspapers and magazines, talks to groups all combine to spread
the word about organic and sustainable practices.
Nancy graduated from the Ratcliffe Hicks School of the University of Connecticut
with a degree in Floriculture. She is a former board member and past president of
NOFA/CT. She is the coauthor (with Marny Smith) of A Country Garden for your Backyard,
published by Rodale Press in 1995. She is the author of Succession of Bloom in the
Perennial Garden, self published in 2004.
Colleen Plimpton
Garden
writer, educator, lecturer and coach, Colleen Plimpton trained at the New York Botanical
Garden, and has tended her sloping Connecticut acre for 18 years. She’s appeared
on Good Morning America and PBS; she pens the weekly gardening
column for the Danbury News-Times;
teaches at the New York Botanical Garden,
and writes for publications such as GreenPrints, The Litchfield Review, People,
Places & Plants, Connecticut Gardener, and Toastmaster. Her garden
memoir, Mentors in the Garden of Life was issued by Park East Press in
May, 2010.
Colleen looks upon each day as a challenge and an
opportunity to learn more about the wonderful world of nature. She and her husband,
Jerry Shike, have raised 3 children, who now reside in China, Connecticut, and Florida.
Roger Swain, the man with
the red suspenders, is recognized by millions as host of The Victory Garden,
televisions longest-running gardening show. For fifteen years Roger planted and
pruned, harvested and chatted with PBS viewers across the country. More recently,
he co-hosted People, Places and Plants on HGTV, a show which celebrates New England
gardens and gardeners, and features Rogers commentary, Food for Thought.
Biologist, gardener, writer
and storyteller, Roger Swain was born and raised outside Boston Massachusetts. He
graduated from Harvard College, and went on to earn a Ph.D. , studying the behavior
in ants in tropical rain forests, before becoming Science Editor of Horticulture
magazine. Since 1978 readers have been enjoying Rogers essays and articles, as well
as his five books: Earthly Pleasures,
Field Days,
The Practical Gardener, Saving Graces,
and Groundwork. When he is not editing,
writing, filming, or meeting with gardeners across the country, Roger can be found
at work in the orchard and gardens of his New Hampshire farm.
Roger Swain received the
American Horticultural Society Award for Writing in 1992, and in 1996 he was awarded
the Massachusetts Horticultural Society Gold Medal for his power to inspire others.
Colleen Plimpton
Karen Bussolini has been a gardener as
long as she can remember. She trained as a painter and had a career as an architectural
photographer before specializing in garden photography, writing and lecturing.
