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Bouquet for the Day Seminars

Get great tips from hands-on demos right on the show floor! Throughout the day, gardening experts show you the how-to's of container gardening, creative floral arranging, garden design and construction, and more!!

The Short Pump Symphonette will perform on Saturday, February 21 at 7:15 PM

A String Youth Orchestra for Elementary and Middle School Students

The Short Pump Symphonette is a string youth orchestra currently comprising about 18 players, which rehearses on a weekly basis and performs public concerts throughout the year. The orchestra was founded by Chris Novelli and William Raposo in 2004 to provide an opportunity for string students (especially elementary-school students) who are currently taking private lessons to play in an orchestra. Players range in age from elementary-school to middle-school. Students interested in joining need to have about two years of experience playing and reading music. The level of difficulty ranges from second-year middle-school orchestra level to high-school level.

Date & Tine	Speaker	Topic	Description
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18th
2:30pm	Art Chadwick	Orchids Made Easy	Learn more about these beautiful and exotic flowers from Art Chadwick of Chadwick & Sons Orchids.
3:30pm	Peggy Singleman	Native Plants for our Landscapes	Add some pizzazz to your landscape with plants that are easy to care for; find plants for that area where nothing will grow.

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19th
11:30am	Sam Harris	Sam's Garden Hour	Learn about my favorite, step by step gardening hobbies starting with propagating Heirloom English Boxwood to growing really big Kimberly Ferns along with caring from hot house azaleas and ivy topiaries for your enjoyment in your home and garden.
12:30pm	Emily Gianfortoni, Linda Hazelwood, Sherry Giese	Composting with Worms	Vermicomposting uses red wiggler worms kept in bins indoors to transform food scraps into beneficial compost. How to make and maintain a simple bin is demonstrated.
1:30pm	Grace Harrison	Starting Plants From Seeds	Learn ways of starting your own flowers and vegetables from seeds, how to transplant and how to care for plants with the use of visuals and handouts.
2:30pm	Tara Dillard	Vanishing Threshold: Combining Life, House and Garden	Place your garden as a moat of grace surrounding your life. Style your home as a focal point of grace from the garden views. When your life, house and garden flow into a Vanishing Threshold your template for living a lifestyle infused with joy has begun. Vanishing threshold describes an organic life starting with who you are, how you choose your interior furnishings, how your landscape flows from the interior views to your property lines. I created my garden but I know it is now creating me. Beware, this topic has the power to change how you live. Tap into this very real energy.
4:30pm	Tara Dillard	Vanishing Threshold: Combining Life, House and Garden	Place your garden as a moat of grace surrounding your life. Style your home as a focal point of grace from the garden views. When your life, house and garden flow into a Vanishing Threshold your template for living a lifestyle infused with joy has begun. Vanishing threshold describes an organic life starting with who you are, how you choose your interior furnishings, how your landscape flows from the interior views to your property lines. I created my garden but I know it is now creating me. Beware, this topic has the power to change how you live. Tap into this very real energy.
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20th
8:00-11:00am	Mark Viette	Live Radio Broadcast- In the Garden with the Viettes	Join Mark Viette of Viette?s Nursery as he broadcasts his weekly radio show - answering listener?s questions and gives practical gardening
12:00 PM	Mark Viette	NOT CONFIRMED
1:00 PM	Grace Harrison	Starting Plants From Seeds	Learn ways of starting your own flowers and vegetables from seeds, how to transplant and how to care for plants with the use of visuals and handouts.
2:00pm	Sam Harris	Sam's Garden Hour	Learn about my favorite, step by step gardening hobbies starting with propagating Heirloom English Boxwood to growing really big Kimberly Ferns along with caring from hot house azaleas and ivy topiaries for your enjoyment in your home and garden.
3:00 PM	Art Chadwick	Orchids Made Easy	Learn more about these beautiful and exotic flowers from Art Chadwick of Chadwick & Sons Orchids.
4:00 PM	Kathleen Gagen	Peonys Flowers
5:00 PM	Sean Sheppard	Essentials of Composting at Home	Simplified breakdown of the fundamentals of composting using ingredients found at home (food scrapes, yard scraps, etc.) Demonstration includes identifying ingredients and participating in layering ingredients.
7:00 PM	Short Pump Symphonette

SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 21st
12:00pm	Ron Petitt	Container Gardening	You will see how to prepare your soil, select your container, prepare your plants and how to arrange them in this entertaining presentation by 4 Hanover County Master Gardeners.
1:00 PM	Kathleen Gagen	Peonys Flowers
2:30pm	Tara Dillard	Vanishing Threshold: Combining Life, House and Garden	Place your garden as a moat of grace surrounding your life. Style your home as a focal point of grace from the garden views. When your life, house and garden flow into a Vanishing Threshold your template for living a lifestyle infused with joy has begun. Vanishing threshold describes an organic life starting with who you are, how you choose your interior furnishings, how your landscape flows from the interior views to your property lines. I created my garden but I know it is now creating me. Beware, this topic has the power to change how you live. Tap into this very real energy.

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