Open to the Public!
MHS Spring Workshop, Hidden Lake Gardens
Saturday, May 17, 11:30 am – 3:00 pm
Only 50 spots are available, so register early!
• Online registration is open to the public, $25 per person, and including a free hosta, lunch, and 4 speakers!
• Each person who registers online receives their choice of sandwich and dessert choice of cookie or pie from Traverse City Pie Company.
Each registrant also receives a free hosta, Hosta ‘Emerald Chalice’. This medium-sized hosta has beautiful shiny, cupped, heart-shaped leaves and was hybridized and registered by Charlie Kwick in 2020.
While you enjoy your lunch we will have a speaker share the great history of Hidden Lake Gardens and how the Hosta Hillside came to be and how it changed throughout the many years. After a short break, we will walk around the Hosta Hillside and enjoy 3 more speakers who will give 30-minute talks about how the Hillside will be redesigned in the near term to transform Hosta Hillside new and better AHS National Display Garden.
For instance, collaborations with other plant societies to help fill in areas by the pond, paths will be widened and modified for ease of walking that will make it easier for those with mobility issues. We will also discuss ideas for redevelopment of Hosta Hillside that will include amending the old beds so the new and rejuvenated plants will flourish once reintroduced and how to protect our new gardens. You will be able to see some of the great changes that have already started to happen along the pond’s shore.