Could be....YOU!

Join us for a practical workshop on Saturday, May 7th

(Click the picture of the event brochure to the left for more details and directions to the Kistner Center.)

Workshop Fee: - $50

Register by Wednesday, May 4.
Pre-registration and prepayment required.
(checks or credit cards only)

There will be books, plants and more for sale.
(Checks or cash only at the event)

The Georgia Piedmont Land Trust (GPLT) will feature talented local garden designer, certified arborist, author, artist and Master Gardener Shannon Pable in a practical workshop on Saturday, May 7th from 10 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., at GPLT’s Mary Kistner Nature Center near Snellville. The event will show how to translate garden design concepts into a real plan that you can act upon.

Whether you have an existing garden that needs to be refreshed or redone or you’re starting from bare dirt, this session will help you make sense of the chatter about garden design.  

Join Shannon in the beautiful woodland gardens at the Kistner Center as she demonstrates how you can create a workable plan for your own garden.  She also will provide useful suggestions for plant selections in your particular landscape, highlighting native plants for pollinators and wildlife.  

Enjoy a light lunch in the beautiful surroundings of the Kistner Center as you learn.  Then, as an added highlight, Buck Jones Nurseries (www.buckjones.com) will be on hand with native plants for sale so you can get a head start on implementing your own plan. 

Prepayment is required. The fee for the session is $50, lunch included. All proceeds go to support GPLT’s conservation work.

Shannon (www.shannonpable.com) is a life-long artist, gardener, certified arborist with an interest in edible & medicinal plants. Shannon is an award winning garden designer, specializing in native plants and environmentally friendly landscape designs (owner of Shannon’s Garden Gallery).  She also is a published writer, photographer, illustrator, and artist.  She writes the monthly native plant profile and many garden features for Georgia Gardening Magazine.  She has appeared as the guest designer on HGTV’s Landscape Solutions.  Her work has also been featured in the Atlanta Journal Constitution & Gwinnett Daily Post.   She was the 2005 President for the Gwinnett Master Gardeners, a member of the Georgia Native Plant Society, and Co-Chair for the 2005 Southeastern Flowershow Landscape Division.

Lunch: 12:00p.m.-1:00p.m.
Courtesy of Whole Foods Market. On display, a special painting featuring the Kistner Center landscape by local artist, Steve Logan, now of Wilmington, NC.