Adult Classes
2013 Winter Lecture Series
sponsored by
Blackhawk Hardware
why settle for the ordinary
Yoga
with Dia Steiger
Mondays, February 18th - March 25th or
Thursdays, February 21st - March 25th
9:30 am - 10:30 am
Cost:$50 for 6 classes, $100 for all 12, if pre-paid
$10 each class for walk ins
Meets at the Lawrence House
Join us for a well-rounded yoga practice that will build strength, flexibility. Classes are designed to provide the mature student with a introduction to yoga. Dia will offer in-depth explanations of proper technique and alignment. You will work towards
developing a strong physical practice, and the sequences will offer repetitions so that the lessons of the postures will sink in. You will learn to make breathing a priority in this class that becomes a meditation in motion.
Dia Steiger completed her Power Yoga teacher training in 2008 and is registered with Yoga Alliance® at the 200 hour level. She firmly believes that the benefits of yoga can be profound for individuals in all walks of life. She currently teaches at the Laughing Buddha as well as the Salvation Army. Dia is graciously donating her time so that all tution benefits Wing Haven.
Before & After
with Carole Joyner
Tuesday, January 29th, 9:30 am
Cost: $10 (non-members: $15)
Carole’s lecture features several ‘before and after’ projects in which her focus is the architectural elements involved in landscape and hardscape design. Her discussion will include plant selection with regard to design as well as the growth characteristics of the plant material. Once intention lights the way, the garden comes together with
sensibility and artistry.
Carole Joyner & Bruce Benfield have worked together for 35 years. Joyner Benfield provides designbuild contracting services for landscape, waterscapes & hardscapes. Design expertise by Carole Joyner partnered with Bruce Benfield’s installations offer the client thorough, efficient and beautiful landscape projects.
The Garden in Winter
with Andrea Sprott
Thursday, January 31st at 9:30 am
Cost: $10 (non-members: $15)
Winter is not just for “armchair gardening”...
dreaming of spring’s arrival and blanketing yourself in seed catalogs! Join Andrea for a delightful morning of learning all the magic the winter garden has to offer, as seen through the eyes of Elizabeth Lawrence.
You will leave inspired to bundle up, get outside, and discover the beauty of a myriad of winter-blooming plants, berrying shrubs, exfoliating bark, and a return to the simplicity of a garden’s design.
Andrea Sprott is our Lawrence Garden Associate. An avid gardener and plant collector, Andrea enjoys sharing her passion and expertise with others.
Digital Photography
with Dave Kelly
Fridays, February 1st - March 1st
(5 consecutive classes)
9:30 am - 12 Noon
Cost: $275 for all five classes (non-members: $285)
Digital SLR I - Geting To Know the Camera :
In this course students with new digital SLR cameras will learn how to set up the camera, and about the different buttons and dials on the camera, as well as becoming familiar with the camera’s menu. Topics
such as shutter speed, aperture opening, ISO sensitivity and white balance will be discussed. Participants will learn about the various shooting modes and types of files the digital SLR camera can record (jpeg, tiff and RAW).
Digital SLR II - Metering: In this course participants will take it one step further by learning how to get the correct quality of light to reach the camera’s sensor. Both incident and reflective light metering
will be discussed. Learning how to meter a subject correctly brings out the correct brightness and vibrant color in the image. This is probably the most important skill in getting the correct exposure.
Digital SLR III - Composition: In this course,
participants will learn the visual skills necessary to compose an image. The goal is to learn how to use the various elements of composition to both direct the
eye of the viewer to what we want them to see in the image and not away from what we want the viewer of our images to see. The elements of composition including depth of field will be discussed.
Digital SLR IV - Basic Flash Photography: This course will cover the use of both the on camera pop-up flash and the optional flash that fits on the hot shoe of
the camera. Topics to be covered are flash as the main light source, balanced flash, fill flash and using flash to freeze motion. Both through the lens (TTL) and manual flash will be discussed. Participants will learn how to determine which type of lighting should be used in different situations.
Digital SLR V- Introduction to Post -Production Processing: What to do with the images after we take
them. To be a complete photographer, one must learn how to use image organizing and developing software. This course is an introduction to Adobe Photoshop Lightroom® and Adobe Photoshop. Topics
will include organizing images so they can be easily found, bringing out the best in the image with develop settings, creating a photo book, creating a slide show that can be emailed and printing images.
Dave Kelly is an award winning wildlife photographer and one of the very few Adobe Certified Instructors in the United States for both of Adobe’s software programs for photographers, Photoshop and Lightroom. Dave has been involved with photography since he was 14 and has close to 40 years of teaching experience to all levels. He switched to digital photography completely in 2003 and is familiar with most digital SLR cameras. Dave is fortunate to get to participate in photography workshops and tours around the country and every year leads photo safaris to Africa, usually for the Great Migration in Kenya. Dave’s work can be seen at his website, www.dekphotography.com.
Creating Havens for Wildlife...
Habitat Gardening
with Mary Stauble
Saturday, February 2nd at 10:30 am
Cost: $10 (non-members: $15)
Urbanization brings homogenized landscapes and a drastic loss in native biodiversity of plants and animals. Habitat Gardening is a positive move against this trend. It involves landscaping from
an ecological mindset, with a focus on Southeastern native plants, plant structure, selection, and the maintenance needed for this type of gardening. Get started on a process that will enrich your life and the
environment!
Mary Stauble is an environmental educator and
consultant living in Charlotte, NC. Her background includes degrees in biology, environmental studies, a science teaching credential and a Masters in education. Ms. Stauble has a certified habitat garden and her yard has been featured in Carolina Gardener. A former science teacher, she taught composting classes for Mecklenburg County for over eight years. She has worked for the Soil and Water Conservation District as an Urban Conservationist Technician and with the Horticulture program at Central Piedmont Community
College.
Gardening Under Cover
with Wesley Greene
Tuesday, February 5th at 9:30 am
Cost: $15 (non-members: $20)
Learn the developmental histories and most approved methods of using bell glass, hotbeds, paper frames , and other devices for year-round vegetable production. You will receive instructions from the
most accomplished English gardeners and botanists of the 18th century for the management of the kitchen garden as currently practiced in the town of
Williamsburg, Virginia.
Wesley Greene has gardened with heirloom plants at
Colonial Williamsburg for over 30 years. In 1996 he founded the Colonial Garden and Garden Shop on Duke of Gloucester Street where costumed employees interpret 18th century plants, tools and cultural technique. Period appropriate plants, seeds, bulbs and other garden related objects are also available for the visitor’s inspection. Wesley is the author of Vegetable Gardening the Colonial Williamsburg Way:18th century methods for today’s organic gardeners (Rodale Press, 2012) program and magazine.
Kitchen Gardening: Styles and Strategies
with Rita Pelzcar
Thursday, February 7th at 9:30 am
Cost: $15 (non-members: $20)
Whether your landscape is small or large, there is room for a kitchen garden--a garden that produces fresh bounty for your table. Rita Pelczar will introduce a variety of techniques for determining what to include in your kitchen garden. She’ll also discuss how to integrate the kitchen garden into
your existing landscape, as well as how to make the most of the space available. Lots of examples of kitchen gardens, large and small, formal and informal, will provide inspiration and ideas.
Rita Pelczar has shared her enthusiasm for, and
commitment to environmentally responsible gardening
throughout her career. She has been an extension agent,
Peace Corps volunteer, teacher, public garden manager, and associate editor of The American Gardener magazine. She received her B. S. and M. S. degrees in horticulture from the University of Maryland and has written on a wide variety of horticultural topics which have appeared in The American Gardener, Horticulture, National Gardening, Fine Gardening, The Herb Companion, Mother Earth News, and Organic Gardening. Her most recent book, Homegrown Harvest
(Mitchell Beazley, 2010) reflects her passion for kitchen
gardening. She and her husband live in Madison County, NC, where they grow a wide variety of edible and ornamental plants for their own enjoyment, and USDA certified organic hops for local microbreweries and home brewers.
Indoor Plant Combinations with
Blooms and Foliage
with Jesse Campbell Canceled
Friday, February 8th at 9:30 am
Cost: $10 (non-members: $15)
Just in time for Valentine’s Day! Jesse Campbell will show you how to put together a display of flowers and foliage to brighten your home in the winter months. Jesse will also provide valuable maintenance tips.
Jessee Campbell has owned and operated Campbell’s
Greenhouse and Nursery for 29 years. He is also proprietor of Dilworth’s Little Secret.
Gardening for Four Seasons
of Interest
with Terri Long
Tuesday, February 12th at 9:30 pm
Cost: $15 (non-members: $20)
As you live with your landscape, you may realize that there are certain times of the year when the garden is drab and boring. Winter tends to be the season when the landscape is neglected and barren as you wait for spring to arrive. Although it may be easy to ignore your landscape in winter, there are many possibilities for enhancing your enjoyment of it even as you view it from the warmth of the indoors. Terri Long, will review how to improve your landscape so that it provides you with pleasure all year. She’ll also show you plants with four seasons of interest as you prepare for spring planting.
Terri Long founder of Terri Long Landscape Design in 1999, helps homeowners turn problems and uninspiring landscapes into beautiful gardens and outdoor living spaces that enrich their lives. She wants you to love your landscape as much as your house. Visit her website at www.terrilonglandscape.com.
Prune Like a Pro!
with Jeffrey Drum and Andrea Sprott
Saturday, February 16th from 9:30 am -12 noon
Cost: $45 (non-members: $55)
Enrollment is limited. Meets at the Lawrence House
Got questions about pruning your favorite trees and shrubs? Get answers from two of Wing Haven’s pruning experts! Join Jeff Drum and Andrea Sprott for a fun-filled morning to learn all aspects of proper
pruning techniques as well as the best pruning tools. Weather permitting, we will take a short walk on Ridgewood Avenue to see examples of different pruning practices in the garden. You will leave with all the knowledge you need to prune like a pro!
Jeffrey Drum is Wing Haven’s Garden Curator. With over 25 years of experience, Jeff has worked in some of Charlotte’s finest gardens. Andrea Sprott is our Lawrence Garden Associate. An avid gardener and plant collector, Andrea enjoys sharing her passion and expertise with others.
Incorporating Naturalism into
Traditional Landscape Design
with John Newman
Tuesday, February 19th at 9:30 am
Cost: $15 (non-members: $20
Join John Newman for a discussion of the techniques used to integrate areas inspired by nature into traditional residential landscapes. You will learn about the relationship of architecture to landscape and the importance of transitional spaces that link the two together.
John Newman and his colleagues have practiced the art of bringing nature into residential garden design for 25 years. His work is inspired and informed by a love of nature and architecture, and the desire to make each responsive to the other. Formerly an attorney and also trained as a musician, John relates the auditory organization of classical music to the visual organization of garden design.
Great Natives for the Home
Landscape
with Dr. Larry Mellichamp
Tuesday, February 19th at 7:00 pm
Cost: $10 (non-members $15)
There are many well-known Southeastern native plants for the home landscape: dogwood, white pine, sourwood, coneflowers, black-eyed Susans, cardinal flower, and Joe-Pye weed, to name a few. Dr. Mellichamp will teach you about wonderful natives that are relatively unknown and underutilized,
but that do well in the our area based on the experiences at UNC Charlotte Botanical Gardens. Included are chalk maple, Alabama croton, heat-tolerant ostrich fern, Carolina hemlock, big-leaf magnolia, shooting-star, seashore mallow, spruce pine, and the new hybrid mountain Gordlinia. Be the first in your neighborhood to discover and try these
interesting natives in your own garden!
Dr. Larry Melichamp is a Professor of Botany at the
University of North Carolina at Charlotte where he teaches courses on botany and horticulture. He is also director of the UNC Charlotte Botanical Gardens, with 10 acres of outdoor gardens containing natives and exotics, and two greenhouses displaying the wonders of the world’s diverse flora. He speaks on such topics as pollination biology, bog gardening, winter gardening, and landscaping with native plants. Dr. Mellichamp
did his botanical graduate work at the University of Michigan and has traveled and collected plants in Mexico, Costa Rica, Borneo, Hawaii, South Africa, China and Australia. He is the 2003 recipient of the Thomas Roland Medal of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society. He is co-author of the textbook Practical Botany (1983) and the recent books The Winter Garden (1997, with Peter Loewer) and Wildflowers of the Western Great Lakes Region (1999, with Fred Case and Jim Wells) and Bizarre Botanicals (2010 with Paula Gross.).
The Art of Growing Roses
with David V. B. Pike
Tuesday, February 26th at 9:30 am
Cost: $10 (non-members: $15)
Be inspired by an artist whose canvas is a rose garden in your yard. David Pike will take you through the bed preparation and planting process and give you all of his secrets in keeping your roses looking healthy
and beautiful for years to come. Learn from the quintessential rose professional to grow the nation’s favorite flower, the rose! And watch David’s hands-on demonstration of the prickly job of pruning roses.
David Pike was born in Martinsville, Virginia; raised in
Greensboro and was educated at Campbell College. After marrying Mr. Witherspoon’s youngest daughter, David expressed an interest in the family business and began in a starting position in 1979 at Witherspoon Rose Culture. Without experience in horticulture, David had to be taught the rose business from the ground up – literally. “That first summer, he took me out to a stall in a cow pasture,” David recalls. “He gave me a shovel, left me with a dump truck, and said, ‘We need that stuff back at the office.’” That was David’s lesson on the value of good cow manure for roses. David, president of Witherspoon Rose Culture since 1983, is a frequent speaker at garden clubs, rose societies, gardening shows, and radio talk shows. He is named a Consulting Rosarian by the American Rose Society and shares his love of roses and the proper care of them with thousands of rose lovers.
Garden Walks with Andrea!
with Andrea Sprott
Saturday, March 2nd at 11 am
Saturday, April 6th at 11 am
Free with garden admission.
Spend a winter morning in the Lawrence Garden
with Andrea Sprott. There’s much to see in the
garden as winter makes way for a spectacular
spring.
Andrea Sprott is our Lawrence Garden Associate. An avid gardener and plant collector, Andrea enjoys sharing her passion and expertise with others.
Biblical Herbs
with Rev. Ms. Deborah Moore Clark
Rescheduled to March 19th at 9:30 am
Tuesday, March 5th at 9:30 am
Cost: $10 (non-members: $15)
Deborah Moore Clark’s illustrated presentation
will identify and explore three categories of
biblical herbs:(1) herbs of religious folklore and
symbolism; (2) herbs mentioned in the Bible;
and (3) native herbs of ancient Palestine, the
land of biblical stories. Learn how herbs were
used in biblical times and hear some ancient
Bible stories referencing herbs and their uses.
Deborah Moore Clark moved to Charlotte in 1996, and
has held membership in the American Guild of Organists (AGO), Charlotte Chapter, where she served as Chaplain 1997-2002. During 2000, she served on the Board of Directors for Metropolitan Music Ministries, an organization that provides music scholarships and sponsors an annual ecumenical service of worship and music in the community. For five seasons, Deborah wrote program notes for the Friends of Music at Queens University Chamber Music Concert Series. Deborah is a Extension Master Gardener Volunteer with Mecklenburg County where, since 1998, she has edited and produced the in-house newsletter; she also volunteers as editor of the group’s new public website at www.
mastergardenersmecklenburg.org.
Exploring Watercolor in the
Lawrence Garden
with Janis Schneider
Tuesdays, March 5th - April 9th (6 classes) or
Tuesdays, April 23rd - May 21st (5 classes)
1:30 pm - 4:00 pm at the Lawrence House
Cost: 6 week session, $150 (non-members: $160)
5 week session, $125 (non-members $135)
Using the garden in bloom as inspiration,
explore color, paint, brushes and paper as
an expressive and experimental way to gain
confidence in and knowledge of the medium.
Students can work in any way they desire,
from tight to loose and from realistic to
abstract.
Janis Schneider has been drawing and painting ever
since she could hold a pencil and brush. She has studied at Bennington College, received a B.A. in Fine Art from Queens College (CUNY), Botanical Painting at the Horticultural Society in NYC and privately with the past president of the American Society of Botanical Artists (ASBA). Like many botanical artists, she has been a textile designer for many years and has worked as a designer for various apparel and home furnishings companies. Her designs have sold nationally in major department stores and upscale catalogues. She has exhibited at the National Academy of Design in NYC and currently teaches at CPCC in Charlotte and at the Daniel Stowe Botanical Garden in Belmont.
Catapult Your Landscape into
the Utopia of Your Dreams
with Mary Palmer Dargan
Friday, March 8th at 9:30 am
Cost: $15 (non-members: $20)
Unlock the genetic code to your property, reveal hidden layers and define the 8 components of a healthy environment and lifelong landscape. We are pleased to have Mary Palmer back at Wing Haven to
promote her new work, Lifelong Landscape Design: Gardens for Health and Longevity.
MARY PALMER DARGAN and her husband Hugh Dargan are the principals of Dargan Landscape Architects located in the Buckhead area of Atlanta, Georgia. With over 30 years of design experience, Mary Palmer has a sharp eye for detail and a humorous, no nonsense approach to getting things done. Her mantra is simple and straightforward: “Form follows function, then beautify.” The Dargans’ gardens have appeared in hundreds of magazines and in over 40 books. Their gardens appear regularly on television, such as Ground Breakers on HGTV, and if you travelled to Cashiers with Wing Haven, you’ll remember seeing several properties designed by the Dargans. Her best-selling design book, Timeless Landscape Design: The Four Part Master Plan is considered to be an essential resource for any homeowner or landscape designer.
Not Tonight, Deer
with Frank Hyman
Tuesday, March 12th from 9:30 am
Cost: $15 (non-members: $20)
Edible gardens are all the rage, but we don’t want the deer to do all the eating. Fortunately, a lot of plants have evolved little tricks to make themselves unappealing to deer and other plant nibblers. There’s
no need to memorize some long list; Frank will share rules of thumb for choosing deer-resistant plants. Knowing these plant characteristics will help you create an attractive garden without creating a soup
kitchen for these long-legged browsers. He will also cover attractive and cost-effective deer fencing and deer repellants. Frank will provide a handout and allow time for Q&A.
Frank Hyman’s stories and photos can be seen in Fine
Gardening, American Gardener, Horticulture or Organic
Gardening. In addition, he’s the “Green Thumb” columnist for Urban Farm magazine and his writing has appeared in the NY Times. A popular speaker from Maine to Florida, his articles and garden programs draw from 20 years of experience as owner of Cottage Garden Landscaping in Durham. Frank has a degree in Horticulture and Design from NCSU. He’s picked oranges in Spain, strawberries in France, has been an organic farmer; recently Frank built a chicken coop for his wife, Chris, who led the effort to legalize chickens in Durham. You can learn more about him at www.frankhyman.com.
