Jazzing Up The Garden With Color And Contrast

The Town and Country Garden Club of Newtown will host its next meeting and public program on Wednesday, May 14, at 7 pm, at Newtown Senior Center, 14 Riverside Road in Sandy Hook. Author and landscape designer Karen Bussolini will be presenting a program titled “Jazzing Up the Garden with Color and Contrast.”

Ms Bussolini has written a book with Jo Ann Gardner entitled Elegant Silvers: Plants for Every Garden. The women have selected and vividly illustrated the best candidates for a broad range of growing and design needs, examples of which will be part of Ms Busolini’s talk.

Ms Bussolini has been a gardener for as long as she can remember. She originally trained as a painter and had a career as an architectural photographer before specializing is garden photography, writing, and lecturing.  She is an experienced lecturer on horticulture and design.

She recently finished photographing a book entitled The Homeowners Complete and Tree and Shrub Handbook, and her list of accomplishments including gardening and garden design including containers, espalier, hardscape, herbs, landscaping, native plants and topiary.

The program is free and open to the public. Call 426-5359 for additional information.