Karen Bussolini on ornamental edibles at the Freylinghuysen Arboretum
Overview
Speaker: Karen Bussolini
Date: 06/16/2012
Time: 01:00 pm - 03:00 pm
Location: Freylinghuysen Arboretum
353 East Hanover Avenue Morristown, New Jersey 07962Contact Information
Website: http://www.arboretumfriends.org
Contact Name: Cynthia Triolo
Phone: (973)326-7601
Description
Vegetables, fruits, berries and herbs are often stunningly beautiful plants that would enhance any garden or landscape. A production vegetable garden can be a feast for the eyes when attention is paid to design, color, interesting structures and plants’ ornamental qualities. Adding companion plantings of herbs and flowers attracts pollinators and beneficial insects that prey on pests while turning a utilitarian plot into a pleasure garden.
But home-grown produce needn’t remain segregated in its own plot. Karen Bussolini shows many inventive ways home gardeners have tucked edibles into flower beds, used herbs and fruit trees as landscape plants, assembled colorful edible container gardens and created biodiverse yards humming with life and good things to eat.
