Learning to Garden with Less Water

Eco-conscious - or budget-conscious - gardeners will want to circle Saturday, April 28 on their calendars.

That's when Bucks County Community College will present the fifth annual Tyler Gardens and Landscape Lecture. The event begins in the Gateway Auditorium with a lecture by author and botanist Jenny Rose Carey on how to “Leave Your Watering Can in the Shed: Gardening with Less Water in the Delaware Valley.”
 
Carey, a graduate of Oxford University, is now director of the Landscape Arboretum Temple University Ambler. She is an authority on “xeriscaping,” a method of landscape design that minimizes water use. 

A tour of the Tyler Formal Gardens, located behind historic Tyler Hall on the Newtown campus, will follow the lecture.
 
The award-winning book Tyler Elegance: A Garden Odyssey by Professor Emeritus Lyle Rosenberger will be available for purchase at the lecture. The book, about the history of the four-tiered formal gardens that served as an outdoor parlor for George and Stella Elkins Tyler, recently won a Franklin Award for Excellence in the four-color book category from the Graphic Arts Association’s Neographics Competition.
 
The lecture begins at 9:30 a.m. on Saturday, April 28. Tickets are $15, and $7 for students with ID.

Proceeds benefit the Tyler Formal Gardens Restoration Fund. For more information, contact Lyle Rosenberger at rosenbel@bucks.edu or 215-504-8500, x6007.