The Garden Center’s 6th Annual Legacy Seminar will have as our featured speaker, Kelly D. Norris, who developed the New Naturalism concept; creating an ecologically sound vision for home gardens with stylish yet naturalistic plantings using layering and letting color palettes be defined by nature instead of humans. Kelly also has won top awards at the Philadelphia Flower Show and has authored several books. He will give two presentations: morning session (9:15 – 10:30 am) New Naturalism: Designing and Planting a Resilient, Ecologically Vibrant Home Garden, and afternoon session (11:45 am – 1:00 pm), Reimagining the Perennial Palette.
Registration: Garden Center members $100,non-members, $115 and college or university students, $50. Advanced registration will be required and will be available in January 2027. Tickets will not be sold at the door.
Date: Saturday, February 27, 8:15 a.m. to 1:15 p.m.
Location: The Community of the Fred M. Alger Center at the Grosse Pointe War Memorial, 32 Lake Shore Rd., Grosse Pointe Farms.
This popular Annual Lecture Series, features speakers on multiple aspects of the gardening world. The Grosse Pointe Garden Center is so pleased and privileged to carry on the former Detroit Garden Center’s seminal “Legacy Seminar” series, bringing horticultural and gardening education to the community.

