Art en Fleurs - "Art in Flowers" at Boerner
A Show of Flowers, Horticulture, and
Photography at Boerner Botanical Gardens
FREE and open to the public:Wednesday, July 14th 1:00pm to 5:00pm
Thursday, July 15th 8:00am to 8:00pm
Friday, July 16th 8:00am to 3:00pm
See, Discover & Learn from Talented
Professionals, Designers, & Enthusiasts about:
- Container Gardening
- Orchid Growing
- Vernal Ponds
- Miniature Landscapes
- Underwater Flower-Arrangement Designs
- Cultivar Collections
- Functional Table Exhibits
- A Community-Supported-Agriculture Farm
- How to Photograph Gardens
- Displays of Edible Fruits
- Breath-Taking Photographs
- Striking Plant
- Floral Displays
Questions? Call 262-646-1524
Click here to downoad the event flyer (.pdf)
PREVIEW PARTY:
Preview Party
July 14 - 5:30pm to 9:00pm (with prepaid reservation)
Questions and reservations contact Mary Rickmeier at 262-367-8385 or marywrick@gmail.com
DEMONSTRATIONS & SEMINARS:
Mary Stewart - How to Grow Orchids
July 15 - 8:30am to 10:00amDemonstration ($20)
Mary Stewart of “Goin’ To Pot Orchids” will share her insights on demystifying orchids. She will present a lively seminar on How to Grow Orchids successfully. Learn the dos and don’ts of growing the most exotic and alluring plants on earth. Blooming orchids, tropical plants and orchid supplies will be available for purchase.
Gay Estes & Ingrid Kelly - Design on a Dime, Look Like a Million
July 15 - 10:30am to NoonDemonstration ($20), and optional box lunch ($15)
Nationally acclaimed flower arrangers Gay Estes & Ingrid Kelly will demonstrate how to “put on the glitz,” offering tricks to make arrangements look like a million bucks though designed on a dime. Discover the treasure that is you, find your inner flower, and bloom along with Gay and Ingrid, the “lone arrangers.”
Container Gardening with Melinda Myers
July 15 - 3:00pm to 4:30pmDemonstration and walk through Gardens ($20)
At this demonstration, learn how to create a container garden with nationally known gardening expert Melinda Myers that is suited for a simple backyard, front entryway or the cook in your family. Start with the right container and potting mix and top it off with an attractive mix of annuals, perennials, herbs, vegetables or shrubs. Then provide the proper care for a good-looking productive garden in a pot.
Ian Adams - The Art of Photographing Your Garden
July 16 - 9:00am to 4:30pmLecture and slide-show, including lunch ($95)
Geared for beginner and intermediate photographers, bring your garden photography questions and learn how to become a professional. Ian Adams is an environmental photographer, writer and teacher based in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, specializing in natural, rural, historical, and garden photography. Thousands of his photographs have appeared in hundreds of publications. He has published 17 books photography on regional subjects with 18th due in 2011 - A Photographer's Guide to Ohio.Seminar questions and reservations contact::
Cato Schley (414-352-8816) or robusto2@att.net
Exhibition co-sponsored and presented by
four Garden Club of America member clubs:
- Green Tree Garden Club, Milwaukee
- Kettle Moraine Garden Club
- Lake Geneva Garden Club
- Town & Country Garden Club, Sheboygan
Whether growing orchids, creating a container garden for a front entryway, learning about vernal ponds, or discovering the beauty of a community-supported-agriculture historic farm on Lake Michigan, these are just a sampling of our many local treasures that Art en Fleurs will be celebrating from July 14 through 16 at Boerner Botanical Gardens. One of the finest horticultural, floral arranging and photography exhibitions in the nation, Art en Fleurs is free and open to the public. Talented horticultural and conservation enthusiasts, flower designers, photographers, professionals and experts will be creating, lecturing and displaying informative exhibits, striking plant displays and floral arrangements, and breath-taking photographs in the Education and Visitor Center galleries at the gardens.Members of the public can learn about bees and the vital role they play in all plant life, and visit an exhibit about Ephemeral/Vernal Ponds, the only breeding ground for important amphibians and micro and macro invertebrates, the sole food source for most freshwater fish. The public also can view a fascinating exhibit about the 119-acre historical Afterglow Farm in Port Washington built by Joseph and Ilma Uihlein along Lake Michigan. The property includes charming buildings, gardens, and ravines and is a Community Supported Agriculture farm providing vegetables, fruits and eggs for local subscribers during summer and fall months.
Initiated in 1983, and held every three years since, the innovative horticultural, photography and flower arrangements are evaluated by nationally accredited Garden Club of America (GCA) judges on the use of the basic principles and elements of art - color, line, form, texture, etc - which challenge every artist. Visitors can discover flower arrangements embodying underwater designs, functional table exhibits, and miniature landscapes; view horticultural displays of edible fruits, collections of cultivars grown by the same exhibitor, and wooden boxes covered with designs of growing plants; and ponder photographs of moving waters, close-ups of plant material and personally treasured places. The exhibits will stimulate visitors’ creativity and refresh their souls.
In addition to viewing the show entries and exhibits, there will be related demonstrations and seminars featuring renowned speakers.
