Date: January 8th, 2025
Time: 7:30-9 p.m.
Where: Online
Presented by the Barrhaven Garden Club
Focusing on flowers, foliage, shape, colour, texture, and garden design
As individual specimens, native plants provide much beauty and many ecological benefits, but in luscious combinations they can take your garden to new levels. In this illustrated talk, Lorraine Johnson shows how you can mix and match tried and true performers that flourish together, focusing on flowers, foliage, shape, colour, texture and garden design. Lorraine is an activist and advocate of the environment and an author. Her latest book is A Garden for the Rusty-patched Bumblebee.
Lorraine Johnson hails from Toronto. She has been researching & writing about environmetal issues for three decades. She is a community activist and advocate for protecting, supporting, and growing the urban forest. she is the author and/or editor of 14 books on growing native plants, gardening for pollinators, restoring habitat and producing food in cities. Through her books, articles, and community projects, she strives to advance the understanding that everything and everyone is connected and that, through our actions, we all have a role to play in making this world a better place for all life. She is a bit earnest but she hopes in a good way. Lorraine is a much sought after speaker.
Free for members of the Barrhaven Garden Club.
$5 for guests, payable in advance – guest fee remittance form