Tonight at Del Val! The Layered Garden with David Culp

TONIGHT at Del Val!

"The Layered Garden" Presented by David Culp

Wednesday, October 18, 2017
6:30 PM - Refreshments
7:00 PM - Lecture begins

Delaware Valley University Life Sciences Building
700 E. Butler Ave.
Doyestown, PA 18901

Brandywine Cottage is David Culp's beloved 2-acre Pennsylvania garden where he mastered the design technique of layering — inter-planting many different species in the same area so that as one plant passes its peak, another takes over. The result is a nonstop parade of color that begins with a tapestry of heirloom daffodils and hellebores in spring and ends with a jewel-like blend of wildflowers at the onset of winter.

Using his own garden as a canvas, renowned gardener David Culp shares an inspirational but practical way to transform your garden by creating the “layered garden”. Starting with a basic lesson in layering — how to choose the correct plants by understanding how they grow and change throughout the seasons, how to design a layered garden, and how to maintain it. To illustrate how layering works, Culp takes you on a personal tour through his celebrated woodland garden, perennial border, kitchen garden, shrubbery, and walled gardens while highlighting the garden’s signature plants.

David Culp is the creator of the gardens at Brandywine Cottage in Downingtown, Pennsylvania. David has been lecturing about gardens nationwide for more than 15 years. His articles have appeared in Martha Stewart Living, Country Living, Fine Gardening, Green Scene, and many other publications. He is the author of the Timber Press book The Layered Garden, a past winner of the coveted Best Overall Book by the Garden Writers Association. He is a former contributing editor to Horticulture magazine and served as chairman of the Mid-Atlantic Hardy Plant Society. David is Vice President for Sunny Border Nurseries in Connecticut and instructs as an expert on herbaceous perennials at Longwood Gardens in Kennett Square, PA. He is a recipient of both the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society Distinguished Garden Award and the PHS Award of Merit and serves on the PHS Gold Medal Plant Selection Committee. David has also developed the Brandywine Hybrid strain of hellebores, and was recently cited in the Wall Street Journal for his expertise on snowdrops. His garden, Brandywine Cottage, has been featured several times on HGTV, on the Martha Stewart Show, in Martha Stewart Living and is listed in the Smithsonian Institution Archives of American Gardens.

See more about David at his website:  http://www.davidlculp.com/index.html

Purchase Tickets at the Door
Arboretum Members - Free
DVU Students - Free
Military - Free
Senior Citizens - $3.00
Non-DVU Students - $3.00
Faculty and Staff - $3.00
Non-members - $5.00