Appreciating Gardens In Winter—

Eddison To Speak At Garden Club Meeting

The Garden Club of Newtown will host Newtown garden expert and author Sydney Eddison as the featured speaker for its January meeting. She will present a lecture based on 1995 book The Unsung Season: gardens and gardeners in winter, which will be particularly appropriate this month.

The public is invited to attend the lecture, which will be at 1 pm on Tuesday, January 25, in the Olga Knoepke Memorial Room at Cyrenius H. Booth Library, 25 Main Street in Newtown.

There is no charge and registration is not required.

“Taking pleasure in the winter landscape requires a certain mind-set and an appreciative eye for line, form and pattern,” says Mrs Eddison. “There is a great deal to see and enjoy, if you look – the intricate skeletons of trees, the expansive sky, the long shadows.”

Part of her talk will be devoted to noticing the special delights of the winter landscape, while other segments of her talk will concern making a winter garden more interesting by adding structure.

Mrs Eddison’s sixth book, Gardens To Go: Creating and Designing Container Gardens, will be published in April. She has been involved lately with a project at Taunton Press, a publication that will be out in March called Plant Combinations, and she recently wrote an introduction for 100 Seashells, a new book of photographs by Harold Feinstein.

She is a frequent contributor to Fine Gardening, The Gardener and other publications. She teaches for the New York Botanical Garden and the Institute of Ecosystem Studies.

For more information call 270-1108.