DESCRIPTION: Using methods similar to traditional Majolica, students will learn to glaze and decorate pre-made terracotta planters using metal oxides, stains and the unique brushwork required for glazing.

This course includes instruction, inspiration, two planters, glazes, oxides and stains, and a firing. The finished products will be fired and returned for pick up approximately one week after the course completion. The general fee includes all materials.

Ester R Kislin is an artist living and working on the North Fork. With a primary focus on the ceramics process, Ester creates sculptures, paintings, and tableware drawing inspiration from her surroundings and the natural world. Ester studied ceramics in Italy, Japan, and Holland and holds a degree from Rhode Island School of Design. While living in New York, Ester studied ceramics as a post-grad resident at Hunter College, started a collaborative gallery, and retail business, and worked in numerous studios creating and consulting for artists endeavoring to work in clay.

AGE: Adult Audiences

WEATHER: Rain or Shine.

SPECIAL NOTES: Please dress appropriately for working with stains.  Bring gloves. Comfortable shoes and socks, wide brimmed hats, sunscreen, insect repellant and water are recommended. To be a source of healthy insects for our birds and other insect-feeding wildlife, we do not spray the gardens to manage ticks. Please take appropriate caution.

REGISTRATION: Required. Buy Now.

DESCRIPTION:

Glover Perennials is a premier local (Cutchogue) wholesale nursery supplying Northeast and Mid- Atlantic Garden centers and discerning landscape design/build firms with hard-to-find, quality-grown native, near-native and non-native plants.  Jim Glover, founder and CEO of Glover Perennials, is an expert in unusual and native plants; he has spent a lifetime collecting local ecotypes on Long Island’s East End as well as selecting native and non-native plants with exceptional horticultural value.  Whether it is an ecotype of a well-known species or a non-invasive off-season bloomer, Glover Perennials prides itself on exceptionally long production cycles to guarantee the most robust plants for the landscape.

Join Jim Glover as he tours Landcraft Garden highlighting the strange and special plants that are specific to Glover Perennials.  The Garden at Landcraft is proud to grow an extraordinary number of Jim’s plants for their many outstanding qualities which Jim will explain. Learn which plants will give you multiple seasons of interest, feed pollinators early or late into the season, or have aesthetic forms that will enhance any design.  This is a rare opportunity to hear the many merits of relatively unknown plants from a master plantsman.

Glover Perennials is a family owned and operated wholesale nursery located in Cutchogue, NY. In 1997, Jim started Glover Perennials on 2.5-acres of rented land with his brother Rob who left the business in 2002. Joanne, Jim’s wife, joined the business in 2001 and together they expanded and moved the operation to a 23-acre farm they purchased in 2004. What was previously a hayfield has been transformed into the home of Glover Perennials.

AGE: Adult Audiences

WEATHER: Fair weather only. If raining, workshop will be cancelled with no rain date to follow. To confirm possible cancellation due to weather please call (631) 298-7216.

SPECIAL NOTES: Please dress appropriately for the outdoors: comfortable shoes and socks, wide brimmed hats, sunscreen, insect repellant and water are recommended. To be a source of healthy insects for our birds and other insect-feeding wildlife, we do not spray the gardens to manage ticks. Please take appropriate caution.

REGISTRATION: Please email info@landcraftgardenfoundation.org to register. You will receive a reply email confirming your registration.

DESCRIPTION: In surveys and from conversations, we understand that you, our friends and guests of LGF, want to understand the design dialogues and happy accidents that made the Garden as it is today. During open days, staff and volunteers can, at best, offer tidbits into the intentionality that connects all the different rooms, features and plant combinations. However, there is usually just not enough time for a deep dive, until now. Join The Garden’s creators Dennis Schrader and Bill Smith, and LGF’s Head Gardener Kerry Ann McLean as they offer three comprehensive but different perspectives on the design process.  Learn their tips and tricks to making a great garden.

AGE: Adult Audiences

WEATHER: Fair weather only. If raining, workshop will be cancelled with no rain date to follow. To confirm possible cancellation due to weather please call (631) 298-7216.

SPECIAL NOTES: Please dress appropriately for a long walk outdoors: comfortable shoes and socks, wide brimmed hats, sunscreen, insect repellant and water are recommended. To be a source of healthy insects for our birds and other insect-feeding wildlife, we do not spray the gardens to manage ticks. Please take appropriate caution.

REGISTRATION: Required. Buy Now.

***REFUND POLICY:  Refunds must be requested at least 7 days before event by e-mailing info@landcraftgardenfoundation.org . Landcraft Garden Foundation Credit will be given for the full ticket price, minus $10 Eventbrite processing fee. Credit must be used within 1 year of event, and can be applied to future workshops, events, garden admission or gift shop purchases.