Adrienne Roethling
garden curator, Kernersville, nc
After graduating from the Longwood Gardens Professional Horticulture Program in 2000, Adrienne became the Garden Curator for Juniper Level Botanic Gardens at Plant Delights Nursery in Raleigh, NC. She worked there for eight years, maintaining the seven-acre garden. She then moved to the triad in 2008 to become the Curator for Paul J. Ciener Botanical Garden, a young, 7-acre public garden located in Historic Downtown Kernersville, NC, where she oversees staff, students, and volunteers as well as the plant collections and displays. She has written for Fine Gardening Magazine, the Greensboro News & Record, Yadkin Valley Magazine, Seasons at Ciener, and the Martha Stewart Living online Blog. She is currently a member of the Downtown and Leadership Kernersville Committees. She and her husband Jon also volunteer with the Blue Ridge Boxer Rescue program.
lecture:
Paul J Ciener Botanical Garden: A Perennial Wonderland
Gardening with herbaceous perennials began as a popular trend in Europe during the 1800-1900’s in the use of borders to mask a vegetable garden from those who might snatch the bounty. Becoming popular in the States around the 1970’s, perennial plants are still trendy now but gardening with perennials is also about trial and error, and having a lot of patience that will lead to success. With patience in mind, one can find herbaceous perennials that require little maintenance, offer multiple seasonal appeal and flower for a longer period of time. Inspiration for this talk comes from the Award-Winning Perennial Border at PJCBG and how it’s been doing for the last 15 years. The Perennial Border has a well-designed layout, but can still accommodate the new trends and plants to create the same purpose.