Garden Club | Victorian ideas for the modern shade garden

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Richie Steffen

Please join us on Wednesday, April 16th, when the Orcas Island Garden Club welcomes Richie Steffen, Executive Director of the Elisabeth C. Miller Botanical Garden. Richie will present via Zoom but we welcome you to join us to view the presentation and then enjoy social time at the Orcas Center.

The Victorians were obsessed with ferns and shade gardening and went to great lengths to make their plants happy in the garden. Richie Steffen will describe some of these specialized garden styles and show you how these can be incorporated into today’s home garden. Richie will share some of the best ferns and shade garden plants to add to your ferneries and stumperies as well as show clever ways to use ferns in container displays.

Few people have a passion for plants or an excitement about gardening more than Richie Steffen. Richie is the director/curator for the Elisabeth C. Miller Botanical Garden where he manages the Garden, rare plant collections, and heads acquisition of new plants. He also supervises the primary educational program of the Miller Garden: Great Plant Picks (GPP). GPP is committed to building a comprehensive palette of outstanding and reliable plants for maritime Pacific Northwest gardens. A noted lecturer and horticultural personality, Richie, co-author and co-photographer of the “Plant Lover’s Guide to Ferns” is ready to share his knowledge and make you want to plant too!

The presentation begins at 10 via Zoom. For a link to the live Zoom presentation go to the Orcas Island Garden Club website and click the link below the list of presentations. The presentation will be recorded and available to view for four weeks after it is posted. To watch the recorded presentation, go to the link ‘recorded presentations’ under ‘events’ on the club website.

Garden club presentations are free and open to the public.