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Students digging in at Winterthur 5:13 p.m., Sept. 13, 2005--Grass won’t grow under the feet of the students in Carol Krawczyk’s landscape design classes as they start off the semester with a major project at GardenFair 2005, presented by Winterthur Museum and Country Estate and Horticulture magazine and sponsored by DuPont GreenVista Garden Products. The event, rain or shine, will be held from 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Friday, Sept. 16, (early-bird shopping day) through Sunday, Sept. 18, at Winterthur in Wilmington. The students are getting hands-on, knees-on, feet-on experience implementing the DuPont demonstration garden, using such products as the company’s weed-control fabric, deer and bird netting, landscape fabric and other gardening items. Krawczyk, assistant professor of plant and soil sciences, designed three “Gardens of the Piedmont” for the project--a shade garden, which is the demonstration garden, a sun garden and waterside garden. She will give a talk, “Different Environments in the Piedmont Region: Expert Advice on Which Plants Work Best,” and answer questions at 2 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 17, at the DuPont demonstration garden site. Modeled after a well-known European garden fair outside of Paris, GardenFair will feature lectures, educational demonstrations and exhibitions by plant specialists and growers from all over the country, offering everything for the garden from plants to tools to sculptures and furniture. The first GardenFair held last year was very successful, according to Winterthur, and attracted gardeners from near and far. For GardenFair and ticket information, go to [www.Winterthur.org] and click on “GardenFair.” Article by Sue Moncure To learn how to subscribe to UDaily, click here. |
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