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 Those Bloomin' Pots!
Container Gardening Workshops
Join hundreds of successful gardeners who have let their
creative juices flow in our workshops. Learn to attractively combine the latest
plants into traffic-stopping displays. Create contemporary designs and time-less
classics with the healthiest flowers and foliage around. Standard workshops use
realistic resin pots, or wire frames with moss. Deluxe work-shops have ceramic,
terra cotta, and other pots that sizzle with style.
Please note: Photos will be on line VERY soon!
Sundays, 4 pm
or 6 pm
 May 9 Pink Ribbon Pouches
2 pouches
with Accent Miracle impatiens, a designated "Pink Ribbon" plant, so we donate a
portion of this class to the Susan G. Koman Foundation for breast Cancer
research. A great class to bring a mother, daughter, sister or friend.
 May 16 Floral Feast
Edible flowers such as nasturtium and tagetes in a gorgeous wall jar in sage
green, sandstone or terra-cotta.
 May 23 Planting in the Round
A living wreath with Accent Miracle impatiens, one of many plants we carry
whose proceeds we donated to breast cancer research. A great class to bring
your mother, daughter, sister, or friend. Very popular class, call early!
 May 30 Fine Twining
See how high you can get a Black-Eyed Susan vine to grow on a twig trellis.
 June 6 Sunshine and Shadows
New 3-tiered "faux topiary" class featuring pastel yellow daisies.
June 13 Plants in your Pants
A new classic in blue jeans! If you took "Bloomin' Boots" this spring, add
to your cameo (themed) garden with this one.
June 20 Is Dad Worth...a hill of beans?
Celebrate Father's day by bringing your dad, or just come yourself. Plant
beans and cucumbers in a burlap sack.
 June 27 Playing with a Full Deck?
Low bowl of unique plants with leaves shaped like hearts, spades clubs and
diamonds! Flowers to match.
 July 11 Cleanovich
"Our "leftovers" party. Purchase containers or bring your own. You get a set
amount of potting soil, 12 "specialty" annuals and all the six-packs you need to
"fill-in". A $60 value!
Wednesdays at 10 am or 7pm
 May 12
White on Wire
This classy, elegant design employs mono-chromatic white flowers with companion
foliage. Choose from several wire-based containers such as a window box or a
hanging basket
 May 19 Lucy in the Sky
Impatiens (or "Patient Lucy") and snowflake Bacopa unite in this giant
hanging basket that's perfect for a shady spot.
 May 26 Window or Memorial Box
Dazzling "hangly-danglies" or drought-tolerant toughies combine in this box.
June 2 You Say Tomato
Vegetable garden in a large pot! Bush tomato, basil, parsley and peppers.
 June 9 Ebony and Ivory
Snowy-white flowers pop out against dark, purpley-black foliage plants in
this moss hanging basket for sun or light shade.
June 16 Box of Chocolates
Just as in life, you never know what you are going to get, but you can count
on velvety-chocolate foliage plants with complimentary flowers in a wooden box.
 June 23 High and Dry
Drought-tolerant living wreath with succulents and cheery portulaca.
 June 30 Biblical Bucket
Use plants that are referenced in the bible in a galvanized bucket.
 July 7 Angel and Devil
Surround a glorious Angel's Trumpet (Brugmansia) with Devil's Eye (Vinca).
You will have stunning, night-fragrant flowers all summer and fall. Bring inside
for the winter as a houseplant.
Deluxe Workshops
Tuesdays at 7 pm
 May 11
Bold Visions
Uses our most choice specimen plants in the
nursery. Contemporary European design with an ornamental grass and a tropical
banana for texture, and plenty of stunning annuals. Your choice of pot:
glazed ceramic $35
cast iron urn $129
 May 18 Pretty in Pink
Large wall basket for outdoors, featuring a
monochromatic pink color scheme and silvery foliage plants. $35
 May
25 Shakespearean Garden
Would a rose by any other name smell as
sweet? Use plants mentioned by the Bard in a classic clay pot. $35
 June 1 What's Your Point?
Way cool new cone-shaped hanging basket
featuring million bells miniature petunias and blue lobelia. $35
 June 8 Summertime Blues
Here's the cure! Beautiful glazed blue
"upside down pot" with upright-growing plants. Last summer's favorite $35
 June 15 English Hayrack
Traditional wrought iron window box with a
coco-fiber liner filled with summer annuals. Join our Hayrack Club and you will
replant the rack again in the fall with cool-loving plants, and again in
November with winter greens and ribbons. $45 summer only $69 club
 June 22 Begonia Ball
Large moss hanging basket loaded with
non-stop begonias. $35
 June 29 Musical Miniature
Learn the very old Asian art form of Bonsai
by "sculpting" a juniper bush into a miniature tree. Finish off by planting in a
pot, making a mini bamboo pergola, then suspend a small wind chime. $45
 July 6 Alpine Appeal
Bring plastic gloves for this messy, fun
project that uses a wet mixture of cement, perlite and peat moss. You actually
make the "tufastone" pot! Needs to dry, so pick up next week and fill with
alpine plants. $35
Spring 2004 Workshop Registration
Participants will leave with a completed project to show off to their
friends, family and neighbors.
Those Bloomin' Pots workshops on Sundays and Wednesdays are $20.00 each
if one person signs up and takes three or more, for one or two the cost is
$25.00 each. The Deluxe Workshops workshops on Tuesdays are priced
individually.
Many workshops fill up quickly, so be sure to reserve your space early.
Pre-registration and prepayment are required. If you can not attend refunds will be given up to 24
hours before workshop time, after that we will gladly save your materials for a
week for you to come get.
Fill out the form on the bottom of this page and Fax it to us at
(508) 885-4490 with credit card information to register. Or mail it with a check
to to register to : Workshops, Bemis Farms Nursery, 29 North Brookfield Rd.,
Spencer, MA 01562-1304.
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