2022 Talks and Lectures
November 12, 2022 – Jamestown Philomenian Library & Quononoquott Garden Club – History of Holiday Plants
October 17, 2022 – American Antiquarian Society – Worcester GC Annual Meeting
– Vegetable Gardening Post COVID – Exploring new ways and sustainable crops
September 10, 2022 – Berkshire NARGS, Berkshire Botanic Garden – Primula -Western China and the Himalaya
April 7, 2022 – APLD New England Lecture Series – Botanizing Western Yunnan and the Himalaya
March 9, 2021 – Horticulture Club of Boston’s – Plants of Western China and the Himalayan Plateau
March 5, 2021 – Worcester Art Museum – Flora in Winter Lecture Series – My Favorite Blooms
February 27, 2022 – New England Botanic Garden at Tower Hill – The Home Greenhouse
February 12, 2022 – South Windsor, CT – Vegetable Gardening – new, old and bold choices
February 5, 2022 – Becoming a Better Flower Gardener
January 4, 2022 – Hanover, VT. Norwich Garden Club – Mastering the Art of Vegetable Gardening
2021
February 11, 2021 – Calgary Rock & Alpine Garden Society – Exploring Western China and the Himalaya
March 3, 2021 – Little Compton, RI – Mastering the Art of Vegetable Gardening
March 4, 2021 – Chappaqua Garden Club, Chappaqua, NY – Mastering the Art of Flower Gardening
March 5, 2021 – Manhattan Chapter of the North American Rock Garden Society – Exploring Himalayas
April 14, 2021 – Horticulture Club of Boston – Plant Exploring in Western China
May 19, 2021 – Pine Hills Garden Club – Mastering the Art of Flower Gardening
June 9, 2021 – New London Garden Club, New London, NH – Mastering the Art of Flower Gardening
November 9, 2021 – Darien Garden Club, Darien, CT – The History of Winter Holiday Plants
November 30, 2021 – Blithwold Mansion – Beyond the Boughs’ Holiday Plants past and present
December 14, 2021 – Philadelphia Horticultural Society – The History of Winter Holiday Plants
March 7, 2020 –
A Garden Symposium, University of Rhode Island. URI Master Gardeners. For more info click here. Lecture and book signing,
April 8, 2020 – Briarcliff Manor, NY. – Westchester County, NY. Briarcliff Garden Club, William J. Vescio Community Center at Briarcliff Manor Library. Lecure and Book Signing.
May 7. 2020 – Quechee, Vermont – Quechee Garden Club – Mastering the Art of Flower Gardening.
Lecture and Book Signing.
October 13, 2020 – New London, NH. New London Garden Club. Mastering the Art of Flower Gardening.
Lecture and Book Signing.
2019
January 13, 2019 – Bridgehampton, NY – Botanizing in the Land of the Blue Poppy – Yunnan & Western China, Horticultural Alliance of the Hamptons
March 2, 2019 – Morris Township, NJ – Mastering the Art of Vegetable Gardening – The Friends of the Frelinghuysen Arboretum 2019 Gardening Symposium
March 12, 2019 –Maryland Horticultural Society – Rediscovering Forgotten and Heirloom Summer Bulbs March 16, 2019 – New London, CT – Mastering the Art of Vegetable Gardening –Conn.
March 16, 2019 – Connecticut Master Gardeners Symposium, Connecticut College – Mastering the Art of Vegetable Gardening
March 23, 2019 – West Deerfield, MA – Mastering the Art of Vegetable Gardening, Western Massachusetts Master Gardeners Symposium
May 4, 2019 – Boylston, MA –Primroses of Yunnan – American Primrose Society Annual Exhibition, Tower Hill Botanic Garden
June 11, 2019 – New London, NH – Botanizing in the Land of the Blue Poppy, Yunnan & Western China, New London Garden Club
September 28, 2019 – Massachusetts Master Gardeners Symposium – Fergus Garrett, Jacquiline van der Kloet, Paul Zammit and Matt Mattus.
October 21, 2019 – Worcester, MA, Botanizing in the Land of the Blue Poppy – Flora of Yunnan and Western China – Worcester Garden Club
November, 7, 2019 – Bristol, RI – Blythewold Mansion Annual Meeting.:
Botanizing in Yunnan and Western China
November 10, 2019-Toronto, ON. Toronto Botanic Garden – Ontario Rock Garden and Hardy Plant Society AGM. Botanizing in Yunnan and Western China
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2018
November 3, 2018 – Woodstock, MA – Flora of Western China, Berkshire Botanic Garden, Berkshire Chapter of the North American Rock Garden Society.
November 5, 2018 – Wethersfield, CT – Wethersfiled Garden Club – The History of Holiday Plants
November 17, 2018 – Sudbury, MA – Flora of Western China
2017
April 15, 2017 – JC. Raulston Arboretum, Piedmont Chapter of NARGS
Rediscovering Summer Bulbs – 9:30 a.m. at the JC Raulston Arboretum
February 26, 2017 – Conn. Flower and Garden Show, Hartford, CT. Garden Conservancy Seminar Stage – Rediscovering Summer Bulbs
2016 TALKS
February 6, 2016 – Buxton Branch Begonia Society, Sudbury Library, Sudbury, MA
February 11, 2016 @ Blackstone Valley Gardeners, Whitensville, MA
March 19, 2016 – Conn. Master Gardeners Association ‘Symposium XXII”
June, 2016 – Steamboat Springs, CO – Annual Meeting of the North American Rock Garden Society
November 12, 2016 @ Frelinghuysen Arboretum Morris Township, NJ –
‘Autumn and Winter Bulbsfor Serious Plant Collector’
Watnong Chapter of the
North American Rock Gardening Society
North American Rock Gardening Society
– DETAILED SCHEDULE –
Sunday, November 1, 2015 1:30 PM
THE LOST CRAFT –
RAISING & TRAINING EXHIBITION CHRYSANTHEMUMS
RAISING & TRAINING EXHIBITION CHRYSANTHEMUMS
PART ONE OF A TWO PART SERIES – WITH A WORKSHOP PLANNED FOR THE SPRING
PRESENTED BY
Tower Hill Botanic Garden
Boylston, MA
Learn everything you need to know about fine craft of raising ,training and displaying fancy exhibition Chrysanthemums in this presentation by plantsman and blogger Matt Mattus. With cultural techniques which date back to 15th century, the chrysanthemum had remained popular until the mid 20th century, when the economics and interest in keeping such a collection, waned. Today, few take the time and effort to keep or train a collection.
Learn about rare and fancy varieties (spiders, recurves and brush types) as well as their training methods (columns shields, arches, cascades) are rarely seen outside of the handful of specialist collectors and botanic garden who continue to raise and display these flowers. Fewer than 5 institutions raise full exhibition mums today in North America, and only a handful of private collectors continue to keep a collection. This will be a rare opportunity to learn about this fascinating, and at-risk art.
Inspired but this deep tradition, plantsman and garden writer Matt Mattus has dedicated much of his current research in learning as much as he can about the culture and history of these flowers.
We’ve been able to convince Matt to share with us his not only his tips and tricks, but also some of his amazing photographs outlining step-by-step, every thing that you will need to know so that you might try to raise these amazing plants yourself. Matt will be bringing actual specimens as well to share with the audience.
Contact Tower Hill Botanic Garden for reservations.
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Saturday, October 17 2015
Defining and Enhancing Your Landscape
A day with Rochelle Greayer, Matt Mattus and John McCormack
The Rotch-Jones-Duff House & Garden Museum
New Bedford, MA
Join me along with blogger and author Rochelle Greayer, and John McCormack from SouthCoast Gardens in the one day symposium in New Bedford, MA at the Rotch-Jones-Duff House & Garden Museum.
$89.00 for non members. Contact the museum for reservations and more details.
Register on-line here:
www.rjdmuseum.org.
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February 11, 2016
SUMMER BULBS FOR BORDERS AND CONTAINERS
a presentation by MATT MATTUS
Blackstone Valley Gardeners,
Whitensville, MA
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November 12, 2016
TOPIC STILL BEING DISCUSSED
presented by the Watnong Chapter of
the North American Rock Gardening Society
Frelinghuysen Arboretum
Morris Township, NJ
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PAST PRESENTATIONS
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PAST PRESENTATIONS
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Saturday, January 31, 2015
THE ART OF GROWING ENGLISH SWEET PEAS
at. TOWER HILL BOTANIC GARDEN
Boylston, MA
TOWER HILL BOTANIC GARDEN Member $50, Non-member $65
Contact Tower Hill Botanic Garden for tickets.
My most comprehensive presentation to date. All attendees will leave with 12 planted tubes of imported Spencer Sweet Peas, 12 canes and instructions on how to grow these amazing sweet peas.
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Saturday, March 7, 2015
Rotch-Jones-Duff House and Gardens
Garden Design Symposium
New Bedford, MA
More info to come
>>>>> 2014 <<<<<
SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
Monday, September 29th
Worcester Garden Club, Worcester, MA
The Stoddard/McDonough Garden:Then and Now
Fletcher Steele in Worcester
Private Event
Monday, September 29th
Worcester Garden Club, Worcester, MA
The Stoddard/McDonough Garden:Then and Now
Fletcher Steele in Worcester
Private Event
Sunday, February 16th
11:00 AM Presentation
Comstock,Ferre & Company
Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds
Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds
Wethersfield, CT.
Presented by the Conn. Chapter of the North American Rock Garden Society
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Monday, March 10th
AUTUMN AND WINTER BLOOMING BULBS FOR THE CONSERVATORY
9:00 AM
The Elm Bank,
Massachusetts Horticultural Society
Massachusetts Horticultural Society
presented by the Hills Garden Club of Wellesley
Wellesley, MA
Private Event
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weekend of July 26,27
Sakonnet Garden Symposium
A Symposium and Teaching Workshop
THE ART OF VEGETABLE GARDENING
Sakonnet Gardens
Little Compton, Rhode Island
As part of Sakonnet Garden’s Best of Gardening Weekend symposium series join me along with Aaron Bertelsen Great Dixter’s resident expert of vegetable gardening, and with renowned author and blogger Margaret Roach as we share our secrets, ideas and inspiration about how each of us approaches the art of vegetable growing.
For registration and more info, please check back in May
at the Sakonnet Garden website.
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August 9 – 11
SNUG HARBOR SUMMIT
Kennebunkport, ME
>>INVITATION ONLY<<
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SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
September 8th, 2013 – Toronto
Winter Blooming Unusual Bulbs and Rare Alpine Plants
Toronto Botanical Gardens
Sponsored by the Ontario Rock Garden Society
September 21, 2013 – ITHACA, NY
Mastering Winter Growing Geophytes from the Southern Hemisphere
Ithaca, NY
Adirondack Chapter of NARGS
Horticulture Building, Cornell University
Horticulture Building, Cornell University
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September 22 – 24 – ATLANTA
Garden Photography
Garden Bloggers Conference,
Atlanta, GA
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June 25 2013
The Evolving Role of Graphic Designers and Business
San Francisco
Moscone Center
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July 17, 2013
Tower Hill Botanic Garden
Boylston, MA
Boylston, MA
Matt Mattus – Fletcher Steele and the Stoddard Estate –
Examining my Insights and influences from my first summer job
>>>>> 2012<<<<<
August 8, 2012
THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN CHAPTER OF THE
N O R T H A M E R I C A N R O C K G A R D E N S O C I E T Y
at
DENVER BOTANIC GARDEN
MATT MATTUS
SOUTH AFRICAN BULBS
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Monday, February 13, 2012
N O R T H A M E R I C A N R O C K G A R D E N S O C I E T Y
HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OF NEW YORK
The Bernese Oberland is surely of the most spectacularly beautiful regions of Switzerland, and of course it is home to the most iconic alpine plants, which we all love to grow, but if you haven’t seen the photos of Matt Mattus on his blog GROWING WITH PLANTS.com, or in his digital magazine PLANT SOCIETY, you are in for a treat. Matt is going to share with us his most favorite images from his annual summer trips to Switzerland, Austria and the Dolomites of Italy.
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October 2012
EASTERN WINTER STUDY WEEKEND
NORTH AMERICAN ROCK GARDEN SOCIETY
BANQUET SPEAKER – National Meeting
AUTUMN & WINTER BLOOMING BULBS
PITTSBURGH, PA
OCTOBER 11, 2012
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Beyond Paperwhites
Amazing Winter Blooming Bulbs
for Pots and Greenhouses
Many gardeners think about bulbs as spring-blooming, such as tulips, crocuses and daffodils. But here in New England winters are long, and although we are familiar with some winter bulbs such as amaryllis and paperwhites, most gardeners are ready for something new and unusual. Winter-blooming bulbs are the answer. Bulbs are designed to be practically foolproof, but where can you find unusual ones, and which ones should you try indoors or in a cool room? Join Matt Mattus as he shares some of his favorite bulbs for culture in pots, under glass and indoors. Matt will introduce you to all types of bulbs, from South African rarities for collectors to easy-to-grow yet hard-to-find gems, many of which you may have never heard of. Participants will take home a pot or two of some of Matt’s favorites.
INCLUDES A BULB FORCING WORKSHOP, BULBS AND POTS INCLUDED
CONTACT THE BBG FOR MORE INFO
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Saturday, October 15, 2011
THE MASSACHUSETTS CACTUS AND SUCCULENT SOCIETY
AT TOWER HILL BOTANIC GARDEN, BOYLSTON, MA
2:30 – 3:30 pm
MATT MATTUS | THE WINTER FLOWERING BULBS
of SOUTH AFRICA
OXALIS LUTEA
Join Matt Mattus as he shares his cycle of growing rare and hard-to-find winter flowering bulbs and other geophytes from the western cape of South Africa. Lecture will include photos of Matts collections of bulbous Oxalis, Nerine species, Lachenalia, Babiana, Ixia and many other genera of bulbous cape plants.
Matt grows his collections in his cold glasshouse in central Massachusetts where he keeps extensive collections of many South African bulbs and plants which grow on much the same cycle as many South African succulents and other geophytes.
Check the Massachusetts Cactus and Succulent Society web page for more info. All are welcome to attend
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Saturday, April 2, 2011
T H E N O R T H A M E R I C A N R O C K G A R D E N S O C I E T Y
THE BERKSHIRE CHAPTER
MATT MATTUS
TWEETING THE ALPS
(OMG – GOT A.HELVETICA @ 10k! IN BLOOM!! 🙂
TEXTING FARRER – A CENTURY LATER
At the BERKSHIRE BOTANICAL GARDEN
The Bernese Oberland is surely of the most spectacularly beautiful regions of Switzerland, and of course it is home to the most iconic alpine plants, which we all love to grow, but if you haven’t seen the photos of Matt Mattus on his blog GROWING WITH PLANTS.com, or in his digital magazine PLANT SOCIETY, you are in for a treat. Matt is going to share with us his most favorite images from his annual summer trips to Switzerland, Austria and the Dolomites of Italy.
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Saturday, March 5
T H E B E R K S H I R E B O T A N I C A L G A R D E N
STOCKBRIDGE, MA
2 – 4 pm
MATT MATTUS | The Wild Side of Gardening
RE-DISCOVERING SUMMER BULBS
Join horticulturist Matt Mattus as he shares his designs, ideas and inspirations for adding lesser-used summer bulbs to your gardens and container plantings. Learn about creative and unique ways to grow such delights as galtonia and old-fashioned tuberoses, as well as how to grow and display the sort of conservatory collections once seen only on private estates, with pots of seasonal bulbs like tuberous begonias and unusual Japanese bulbous orchids. Matt’s presentations are always entertaining and beautiful with his stylish photos and lists of sources so you can re-create these looks at your own home.
Matt Mattus is editor and publisher of Plant Society Magazine and the popular rare plant blog Growing With Plants. He is a member of numerous plant societies and is a wizard with all things horticultural.
Contact the Berkshire Botanical Garden for tickets, or for more information.
COST:
$20.00 members
$25.00 nonmembers
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