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.
| Saturday, April 1st | Dearborn Heights | West Bloomfield | Clinton Twp | Eastpointe | Royal Oak | Plymouth Nursery |
| 10AM | Creating a Floral Arrangement | Basics of Landscape and Garden Design | Hydrangeas 101 | N/A | Creating a Floral Arrangement | Container Gardening: Make Your Porch Pots Pretty! |
| 11:30AM | Spring Lawn Care | Hydrangeas 101 | What’s New in the Garden with Nancy Szerlag |
Spring Lawn Care | Gardening 101: An Introduction to Growing Flowers and Vegetables | Spring Lawn Care |
| 1PM | Gardening 101: An Introduction to Growing Flowers and Vegetables | Dividing Perennials with Janet Macunovich |
House Plants: From Inside to Outside | Container Gardening: Make Your Porch Pots Pretty! | Container Gardening: Make Your Porch Pots Pretty! | Creating the Perfect Outdoor Oasis with Patio Tropics |
| 2:30PM | N/A | Year-Round Lawn Care | Creating a Floral Arrangement | Vegetables 201 – Tips and Techniques for Increased Harvest | What’s New in the Garden with Nancy Szerlag |
Hydrangeas 101 |
| 4PM | N/A | Gardening 101: An Introduction to Growing Flowers and Vegetables | Container Gardening: Make Your Porch Pots Pretty! | N/A | Hydrangeas 101 | Dividing Perennials with Janet Macunovich |
| Sunday, April 2nd | Dearborn Heights | West Bloomfield | Clinton Twp | Eastpointe | Royal Oak | Plymouth Nursery |
| Noon | House Plants: From Inside to Outside | What’s New in the Garden with Nancy Szerlag |
Dividing Perennials | House Plants: From Inside to Outside | Creating the Perfect Outdoor Oasis with Patio Tropics | The Secret’s in the Soil |
| 1:30PM | Hydrangeas 101 | Creating a Floral Arrangement | Growing Vegetables, Herbs and Edibles | Attracting Pollinators to Your Garden | Q&A with Master Gardener Annette Ferris | Cooking with Herbs |
| 3PM | Container Gardening: Make Your Porch Pots Pretty! | House Plants: From Inside to Outside | Q&A with Horticulturist, Jim Miller | Hydrangeas 101 | Dividing Perennials with Janet Macunovich |
What’s New in the Garden with Nancy Szerlag |
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.
