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Garden Party Weekend
April 1 @ 10:00 am - April 2 @ 5:00 pm
Garden Party Weekend
April 1-2, 2023
10am-5pm
All English Gardens locations
Join us for a weekend packed full of informative gardening, decorating seminars and fun giveaways.
Special guest speakers
Nancy Szerlag
Gardening Columnist, The Detroit News
Nancy Szerlag is a master gardener, a master composter and a garden writer based in Metro Detroit. Her popular weekly gardening column in Homestyle has appeared in the Detroit News for more than 2 decades. Szerlag’s garden articles have appeared many regional and national gardening magazines including The Michigan Gardener, The Wisconsin Gardener, The Minnesota Gardener, Garden Design and Country Gardens. She co-authored Perennials for Michigan and Annuals for Michigan. For several years she was featured in a how-to gardening segment on the local NBC TV affiliate Channel 4. A popular speaker, Szerlag specializes in new products, tools, plants and techniques that help gardeners and homeowners grow healthy and happy lawns, gardens and landscapes. Today she stewards the display garden at the Rochester OPC – the senior citizens center.
Janet Macunovich
Garden Designer and Writer
Janet Macunovich is a 40-year professional gardener and educator who now devotes her time to sharing with the gardening community what she’s learned and learning. She’s authored nine books and taught hundreds of classes all over the country but Michiganders probably know her best from 13 years of weekly Detroit News-Free Press Growing Concerns columns and ten years of Michigan Gardener magazine articles called Janet’s Journal. She and her husband horticultural photographer Steven Nikkila created and manage the website GardenAtoZ.org where you can explore thousands of illustrated articles including over 150 items on pruning.
Barry Green
President of Jonathan Green, Inc.
Barry grew up in the family business, working for Jonathan Green, Inc. from the age of 12. Barry has literally done every job in the grass seed business, from mixing grass seed and unloading trucks to contracting grass seed acres with seed farmers in Oregon, or discussing turfgrass attributes with grass plant breeders. After graduating from Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania in 1977, Barry joined the business full-time. He started calling on customers as soon as he could drive, and has done so ever since. Today, Barry works with his father Barry Green Sr. and his brother-in-law Todd Pretz to run the family business. Barry is the fifth generation of what is now a six-generation family business.
Come see Barry
Saturday
10am-1pm in Clinton Township
2pm-5pm in Royal Oak
Sunday
10am-1pm in West Bloomfield
2pm-5pm in Plymouth
