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City Gardens: Possibilities for Urban Living
ACORN‘s third annual Susan Carter Williams Memorial Seminar, City Gardens: Possibilities for Urban Living, will be offered Saturday, February 11, 2006, 9:00am-12:30pm at the Library of Virginia.
Topics will include:
- The Gillette Garden Legacy
- The Edible Courtyard Garden
- Period Appropriate Landscaping
- Practical Advice for a City Garden
- A Brief Tour of the Library of Virginia
This session is free for ACORN members who have joined or renewed by February 11th and for LVA Foundation donors. You may renew your membership at the seminar; however, space is limited and reservations are required. A fee of $15 will be charged for all others. For reservations and more information, contact ACORN at 422-2148 or info@richmondneighborhoods.org.
If you plan to attend the 17th Annual Maymont Flower & Garden Show (February 9-12),
the Library of Virginia is within walking distance of the Greater Richmond Convention Center.
I think the possibilities for urban gardening are almost limited more by imagination than space. In my Union Hill back yard I have planted 8 standard apple trees, 1 fig, 6 grape vines (4 of which are vinifera), 2 artichokes, 20 asparagus, 10 raspberries, some strawberries, 6 flowering trees, 10 flowering shrubs, and several hundred perennial flowers (most of which are variant daylilies). I haven’t started on my front yard yet because first I have to remove the concrete that covers it. The apple trees and fig are being espaliered and the grape vines head trained, techniques that take very little space but which do limit production. I should care? I picked shiraz grapes last year. As the season unfolds, I will be dividing and giving away daylilies….and last summer I gave tomatoes to passing strangers as well as neighbors! I’ll try to remember to post when flowers and fruit will be available.