Garden Events
For more information on events at the Garden, email Liz Esch or call (479) 750-2620.
- "Slow Gardening: Less Input and More Rewards" with Felder Rushing
- Saturday, November 15th at 10:00am
Flower, Garden and Nature Society of Northwest Arkansas presents Felder Rushing, famed garden authority, author of 15 books, official Mississippi redneck, and a hilariously entertaining speaker. Rushing is a 10th generation gardener, who with an irreverant and down home style, likes to assure everyone that they can garden, anywhere. He knows the rules of gardening, but is fond of saying, we don't have to follow "no stinking rules." His cottage, complete with blue bottle trees and rubber tire planters, has been featured in many magazines and television shows. He has a radio call-in show each week.
Rushing's articles have appeared in Horticulture magazine, Southern Living and many others. He gives garden presentations all over the United States.- Come early to meet Felder at 9:30am. Rushing’s books will be on sale. Receive an autographed copy with purchase. Two of his best are: Tough Plants for Southern Gardens and Pass-Along Plants.FGNS members will be admitted at no charge, all others may pay the $15 admisson fee at the door, no registration necessary. For more information, call 479-841-8759.
- BGSO Board Meeting
- Tuesday, November 18th at 6:00pm
- Botanical Garden of the Ozarks Monthly Board Meeting. Open to the public.
- 2009 British Garden Tour Info Meeting
- Tuesday, December 2nd at 5:30pm
- Travel to Great Britain next summer with BGO's Garden Manager, Susan Regan. This brief meeting is open to anyone who would like to know more about this unique trip. Visit the tour's webpage for a full description.
- Holiday Farmers' Market
- Friday, December 5th at 10:00am to 5:00pm
- Share the bounty of the Ozarks at the Holiday Farmers' Market at the Garden! Fayetteville Farmer's Market vendors will offer locally-produced goods including baskets, apples, baked goods, wreaths, crafts, bittersweet, Arsaga's coffee, mushrooms, eggs, peanuts, candles, soaps, plants, pottery, woodcarvings, and much more!
- Holiday Farmers' Market
- Saturday, December 6th at 10:00am to 5:00pm
Thirty-five vendors from the Fayetteville Farmers Market will offer locally produced produce, flowers, and crafts. Santa and Mrs. Claus will visit the Garden from 10:30 to noon. There will be a station where kids can make a simple birdfeeder, and the Northwest Arkansas Garden Railway Society will share a terrific interactive train display. Bring the kids and your camera! 
- New Perennials with Stephanie Cohen
- Friday, March 27th at 6:00pm
- Stephanie Cohen is an outspoken, nationally-known speaker who will dish out the dirt on the best selections for your garden. Reception and book signing at 6:00pm and lecture begins at 7:00pm. members $25/non-members $35. Online registration will be available in February 2009. Read more about Stephanie here
- The Tropical Paradise Garden with Brent Heath
- Friday, April 17th at 6:00pm
- From the tropical rain forest, the sunny shores of the Mediterranean, the veldt of South Africa and the slopes of the Andes, come bold, lush leaves and a myriad of stunning diverse flowers of summer bulbs. This seminar will provide ideas on how to weave these spectacular bulb plants into your own relaxing, tropical garden getaway. You will see, with the aid of breath-taking slides, how to integrate summer bulbs with annuals, perennials, ground covers, trees and shrubs to create your own ultimate patio planter, window box, living sculpture or jungle. You will also gather ideas on how to build the ultimate Evening Garden including luminescent, light colored, fragrant flowers.
- Reception and booksigning will take place at 6:00, and the program will begin at 7:00pm. Members $25/non-members $35. Online registration will be available in February 2009.
- Hands-On Living Flower Arangments with Brent Heath
- Saturday, April 18th at 9:30
- We all smile when we receive a beautiful arrangement of flowers. However, that smile will return many times when we realize that the flowers come from live bulbs and will last up to 2 or 3 times longer than cut flowers. Then they can often be recycled into the garden after danger of hard freeze. This lecture covers the particulars on how to create living flower arrangements and which bulb cultivars are best suited to pot culture. We will demonstrate the most innovative methods of creating the forced container, the window box liner, the layered patio planter or individually potted bulbs. This lecture should expand our gardening palette and give us more hours of garden pleasure, an additional season and flowers in additional areas. Following the lecture, participants will create their own combination planting which they may take home and enjoy watching become their 'Living Flower Arrangement'.
- Mozart and Beethoven in the Garden
- Thursday, June 11th at 7:00 to 8:30pm
- An evening of Classical music on the Great Lawn. The Lyrique Quintette will feature the music of Mozart and Beethoven amid the blooms of the Rose and Perennial Garden. This concert is the first of the Summer Concert Series, Presented by the Willard and Pat Walker Charitable Foundation
- Red, White, and Blooms!
- Wednesday, July 1st at 6:30pm
- The Arkansas Winds Community Concert Band will present a lively summer concert with Independence Day favorites as well as tunes from popular movies and a salute to veterans. This concert is the second of the Summer Concert Series, presented by the Willard and Pat Walker Charitable Foundation