The New Victory Garden: Harmonizing Vegetables and Flowers talk hosted by Takoma Horticultral Club

The New Victory Garden: Harmonizing Vegetables and
Flowers

Wednesday, April 16, 7:30 - 9:00pm

Held at Historic Takoma, 7328 Carroll Ave, Takoma Park,
MD

Erin Clark and Joe Brunetti , Smithsonian Gardens horticulturists,
will start with a quick history of Victory Gardens, add some fun facts about
war propaganda and what was harvested, then dive into some of their favorite
fruit, vegetable, and flower combinations.

Joe is a SE Pennsylvania native with a BS in Horticulture
from Temple University, whose passions since
childhood have been planting and cultivating his own food, and eating home
grown food. At the National Museum of American History, he designs, installs
and cares for multiple themed gardens related to exhibits inside the museum,
two of which will be featured in the talk.  

Erin trained at Brigham
Young University
and has gardened for the past 10 years in the Mid-Atlantic. She is
responsible for the Heirloom Garden at the National Museum of American History,
designed with a palette of herbs, perennials, and annuals used in American Gardens in eras from colonial times to 1950.

FREE and open to the public. Doors open at 7, talk
starts at 7:30 p.m. 

Please bring a snack to share. As usual, the Club will
provide beverages. 

Wear a recycled name tag and save a tree.

More details at: www.takomahort.org.