Edible Landscaping with Rosalind Creasy

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Fall Lecture Schedule 2009

October 1^st, 2009

Lecture for the Florida Nursery, Growers, and Landscape Association Tradeshow in Orlando. I am the lunchtime speaker from 11:45 to 1:00PM. The topic of my presentation is “The Power of Edibles in Today’s Landscape Industry.”

October 25^th, 2009

Lecture for the Association of Professional Landscape Designers in Sacramento, CA. The title of my lecture is Edible Landscaping: The New American Garden.”

December 12^th, 2009

Lecture at Prusch Park in San Jose, CA for the California Rare Fruit Growers: “Edible Landscaping: The New American Garden.”

Tentative Spring Lecture Schedule 2010

My spring lecture season starts in January this year with presentations at the Los Angeles Botanical Garden and then a few weeks later—at the largest organic farming conference in the country—EcoFarm, in Asilomar, CA.

In February I will be speaking at Powell Gardens in Kansas City, MO and in March I have a speaking engagement planned at the San Francisco Landscape Show and a few days later at the University of Illinois Extension Service in Champagne.

More lectures are in the planning phase and I will update all pertinent information with specific times and titles as the season nears.

Hope to see you soon,

Rosalind Creasy

This past April my assistant Gudi Riter and I flew to Kansas City, MO to the Heartland Garden at Powell Gardens to oversee the planting of my edible landscape garden. From this angle you can see the early plantings of cherry tomatoes. 20 different varieties were arranged by color to introduce viewers to the amazing spectrum that is available for tomatoes (white to gold, orange, red, and black). The plants were to wind through a walk-through tunnel, providing an immersive experience for the garden visitors and a little welcome shade during the hot summer.

Five separate planting beds for edibles were arranged into a half circle. This first bed contained 20 different varieties of culinary herbs.

I returned to the Powell Gardens in early June for the grand opening. Despite the unseasonably cold and wet weather lately, the tomatoes were starting to climb as planned, and promise to make a beautiful exhibit this summer! It should see its full glory in August.

A number of visitors walked through the garden. I gave a tour to some of the first to come through.

During the week of Jan 12, 2009 Ros will be in Kansas City, MO designing an edible landscape for the Author’s Garden in Powell Garden’s. Their new Heartland garden will be open in June 2009 and will feature at least a half dozen theme gardens that utilize edible plants in traditional styles that vary from a French parterre to traditional American heirloom gardens.

To learn more visit their website HERE.