Garden author to speak at Derby library

DERBY - The Derby Public Library welcomes back Colleen Plimpton, a popular garden author, lecturer, instructor and coach, at 6:30 p.m. Sept. 16.  

             The topic of the evening will be Good Night My Garden.
            This is a show ‘n tell presentation with visuals of tools, and equipment used to put our gardens to bed.
            Bulb planting, what to leave up and what to cut down, composting, lawn care, bird feeding, and much more will be discussed.
            Plimpton's award winning one-acre ornamental garden has been on numerous tours and serves as a living classroom laboratory where she teaches composition, color, composting, and other how-tos of gardening.
           She runs a garden coaching business, teaches gardening at the New York Botanical Garden, and works with many local garden clubs and non-profit groups.
          Plimpton is also the author of Mentors in the Garden of Life. 
          Registration is requested.
          For information, stop by the Library at 313 Elizabeth St., call 203-736-1418 or visit www.derbypubliclibrary.org.


This is a press release from Derby Public Library.