Sept 27: Dan Cooper “Gardening from a Hammock”

Dan Cooper has been a Master Gardener for over 25 years and is the co-author of Gardening from a Hammock, a book on low maintenance gardening. An avid world traveller, Dan is a published travel writer and photographer who has visited, written about and photographed gardens in North and South America, Southeast Asia, Australasia, China and India. Dan is also a member of the Garden Writers Association and his articles have appeared in garden and travel magazines and newspapers around the world. His photos can be viewed at https://tinyurl.com/yajruk4z and his travel blog can be seen at www.moissecooper.blogspot.com.

Dan’s entertaining 45-minute presentation is inspired by his book Gardening from a Hammock and features plant suggestions, gardening tips, plant combinations for low-maintenance gardening, and much more. Gardening from a Hammock shows you how cut down on the time spent on gardening chores so that you have more time to enjoy your garden. In his talk, Dan reveals the secrets and successes of 17 well-known Ontario gardening experts, including, Paul Zammit, Dugald Cameron, Marion Jarvie, Marjorie Mason, Lorraine Flannigan, Frank Kershaw, Martin Galloway, and Jim Lounsberry.

Dan will be selling his Botanical Reference Guide, which is a companion piece to his best-selling book Gardening from a Hammock. The guide details all of the plants in the book and in the presentation and will be available for sale at $5 after the presentation. For more information about Gardening from a Hammock or Dan’s other presentations, please contact Dan at GreenGardens@Bell.net.