2023 Kansas City Garden Symposium
2023 Kansas City Garden Symposium
Saturday, March 25, 2023
8:15 a.m. to 4:15 p.m.
(Doors Open 7:30 a.m.)
Three Speakers. Six Presentations. Lunch. Gift Bag.
A Day of Gardening Delight You Won’t Want to Miss.
Events.
2023 Kansas City
Garden Symposium
Saturday, March 25, 2023
8:15 a.m. - 4:15 p.m.
Doors Open at 7:30 a.m.
Tickets: $99
Arrupe Hall located on the Rockhurst University Campus
54th Street and Troost Avenue Entrance
Kansas City, Missouri 64110
Three speakers. Six presentations. Lunch. Gift bag.
A day of gardening delight you won’t want to miss.
Johnson County Extension Master Gardeners, Maris des Cygnes District Master Gardeners, Master Gardeners of Greater Kansas City and Wyandotte County Extension Master Gardeners earn training credits for attending the 2023 Kansas City Garden Symposium. Check with your Master Gardener program for full details.
Meet-and-Greet
with the Speakers
Friday, March 24, 2023
6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Tickets: $79
Private Residence
West of the Brookside neighborhood
Kansas City, Missouri 64113
A very special meet-and-greet with the speakers. There will be plated appetizers, wine and nonalcoholic punch served. Best of all, you will have a chance to mingle and chat with the speakers before the Garden Symposium. The evening is limited to 20 attendees along with the three speakers.
Speakers.
Joseph Tychonievich
The Complete Guide to Gardeners: The Plant Obsessed and How to Deal with Them
&
Rock Gardening: Reimagining a Classic Style
Joseph Tychonievich, who some of you may remember from our 2014 Garden Symposium, where his “bee dance” got everyone humming, is a life-long lover of plants and gardening. He got his degree in horticulture from Ohio State University and went on to work for specialty rare plant nurseries in Japan and Michigan. Joseph is the author of several books, including “The Complete Guide to Gardeners: The Plant Obsessed and How to Deal With Them,” “The Comic Book Guide to Growing Food: Step-by-Step Vegetable Gardening for Everyone” and "Rock Gardening: Reimagining a Classic Style.” He is a regular contributor to gardening magazines like “Fine Gardening,” and is the editor of the North American Rock Garden Society quarterly journal. He lives and gardens in South Bend, Ind., with his husband, two cats, a dog, and a truly excessive number of plants.
Joseph returns to Kansas City for two programs. The first, “The Complete Guide to Gardeners: The Plant Obsessed and How to Deal with Them,” takes us on a humorous look at a condition many of us suffer from. Do you yell at deer, rabbits or squirrels? Have you spent hours shopping at the nursery when your garden is overflowing with plants and your yet-to-be-planted plant collection is starting to look like a nursery itself? If this sounds like you, or someone you know (wink, wink), you will laugh in recognition in this talk, and learn about important issues like Hosta Overdose Syndrome and Seasonal Seed Shopping Disorder.
Joseph’s second program will be “Rock Gardening: Reimagining a Classic Style.” Inspired by the tiny plants and dramatic, rocky landscapes found on mountain tops, rock gardening uses a range of unusual, small plants in combination with beautiful stones to create miniaturized landscapes. This approach to gardening is water-wise, perfect for containers, small gardens, and for gardeners interested in exploring a whole new group of beautiful plants. In this talk Joseph will share beautiful images of rock gardens to get you inspired, the basic principles of creating rock gardens, and an introduction to some of the most beautiful and easy-to-grow rock garden plants to get you started.
Ed Lyon
Midwest Garden Soils
&
Garden Design from a
Plant Collector’s Point of View
Ed Lyon, director of Reiman Gardens on the Iowa State University campus in Ames, Iowa, and author of “Growing the Midwest Garden,” joins us to present two presentations.
In Ed’s first program, he will be discussing the very important and often overlooked bedrock of gardening: our garden soil. In his talk “Midwest Garden Soils,” we will learn what our soils are made of, how to improve them, and how to care for them just as we would do for the plants we grow in them. After all, how can we expect to our gardens to be big, bold and beautiful if we don’t provide them a great place to grow from?
In the second program, Ed will help us make sense of the affliction of the plant obsessed among us of trying to make a garden filled with one of these and one of those appear to be a designed garden. In his talk “Garden Design from a Plant Collector’s Point of View,” he will share with us the design principles and practices that speak to the plant collector in all us.
Chris Fehlhaber
A Season of Inspiration:
The Year at Chanticleer
&
Creating Year-round Beauty in the Garden
Chris Fehlhaber, assistant horticulturist at Chanticleer Gardens in Wayne, Pa., plans to present two presentations. Chris, oversees cut flowers at Chanticleer and hails from Wisconsin. He's influenced by Roy Diblik, because of his personal approach toward plants. Roy is himself a 2012 Garden Symposium alumnus. Chris’s goal is to raise the public’s consciousness and appreciation of enriching, progressive horticulture. He believes we may all lead better lives by making the world a more beautiful place. Chris holds degrees in landscape architecture-natural resources and environmental studies from the University of Wisconsin.
Chris’s first program, “A Season of Inspiration: The Year at Chanticleer,” is sure to inspire with photos of the ever-impressive gardens at Chanticleer. We know you will come away from this talk with new plant selections, design elements and other ideas for even the most jaded of the plant obsessed among us.
In his second program, Chris will us striving to have a truly four-season landscape, when he presents, “Creating Year-round Beauty in the Garden.”
Shop.
The Complete Guide to Gardeners: The Plant Obsessed and How to Deal With Them by Joseph Tychonievich
$9.95
Gardeners are... different. They curse violently every time they see a deer, rabbit, or other "cute" animal. They drape the bed sheets over the garden when a late frost threatens. They stuff the entire living room with hibiscus, bananas, and other tropicals every winter. If you are a normal person living with a gardener, confused and disturbed by their odd behaviors, this book is for you. You'll learn to understand their actions, get tips on how to guide your gardener to a healthier relationship with plants, and get your life back. Open this book up and learn. But be warned. Sometimes the only real solution is to become a gardener yourself.
Paperback, 104 pages
Garden Obsession T-Shirt with Original Artwork by Joseph Tychonievich
$20.00
Our newest t-shirt offering includes our 2023 Kansas City Garden Symposium “Garden Obsession” artwork courtesy of Joseph Tychonievich. This Gildan brand 6 oz 100% cotton t-shirt in Prairie Dust features the imprint in white. We made a very limited print order for this shirt. The shirt is available for purchase online with pickup at the 2023 Kansas City Garden Symposium. It will also be available for purchase at the event.
Sizes from small through 3x in limited quantities.
Venue.
Arrupe Auditorium Hall
at Rockhurst University
5351 Forest Avenue
Kansas City, Missouri 64110
&
54th and Troost Avenue Entrance to Rockhurst University
A 550 seat auditorium with 2 huge screens provide every attendee with a great view of the presentations for the day.
Onsite free parking.
