Arbor Day
The University of South Carolina Upstate Alumni Association hosts an annual Arbor Day Celebration the first Friday in December, which is South Carolina Arbor Day.
Arbor Day 2009: Register Online!
Friday, December 4, 11 a.m.
Humanities and Performing Arts Center
Tickets: $10 each, includes presentation and lunch
Topic: Plant Marriages: Exceptional Combinations of Flower and Foliage
Daniel J. Hinkley “Dan”: Author, plant collector and lecturer will be our guest speaker for this event.
Video: Dan Hinkley on the Martha Stewart Show
Having had an interest in botany and gardening from childhood, Dan Hinkley earned his Bachelor of Science in Ornamental Horticulture, and Horticulture Education, from Michigan State University in 1976. He went on to graduate school at the University of Washington, where he accomplished a Master of Science degree in Urban Horticulture in 1985.
Hinkley was an instructor of horticulture at Edmonds Community College, in Edmonds, Washington, from 1987 to 1996.
In 1987 Hinkley began gardening on the land that would become Heronswood with his partner, the architect Robert L. Jones. By the mid 1990's Heronswood Nursery was doing a thriving mail-order business, and the display garden tours gained international acclaim. Hinkley became a regular speaker at seminars offered during the Northwest Flower and Garden Show.
In 2000, Hinkley and Jones sold the business, and display gardens, to Burpee Seeds, but continued to run the nursery. Hinkley and Jones moved to a residence separate from the nursery in Indianola, Washington.
Hinkley's book, The Explorer’s Garden will be available for purchase at the luncheon.
The Explorer's Garden: Shrubs and Vines from the Four Corners of the World
By Daniel J. Hinkley
Photographs by Lynne Harrison and Daniel J. Hinkley
If you thought the age of the great plant explorers was over, guess again. Dan Hinkley, founder of the legendary Heronswood Nursery, has scoured the globe for botanical treasures, a bounty that has enriched gardens throughout the world. He presents the most outstanding shrubs and vines from his plant-collecting trips to Chile, Costa Rica, South Africa, Japan, Korea, China, Vietnam, Nepal, Bhutan, India, New Zealand, Europe, and North America. Explorers will encounter little-known exotics such as the sapphire-berried dichroas and vermilion-flowered Desfontainea spinosa (Chilean holly). The Explorer's Garden: Shrubs and Vines from the Four Corners of the World also includes more familiar, but just as garden-worthy, plants such as witch hazels, hydrangeas, and sassafras. In every case, Hinkley zeroes in on why the plant deserves your garden space and what you can expect as the plant matures. Excerpts from Hinkley's travel journals evoke the plant's native setting with poetic precision, painting seductive portraits of the monkey-puzzle forests of South America or the rhododendron- clad slopes of the Himalayas. As this brimming collection makes clear, there are still scores of exciting plants that await wider use by the gardening public. Readers who yearn for an expert guide to this cornucopia of riches will find no better companion than Dan Hinkley.
Arbor Day 2009 Sponsors:
Spartanburg Garden Council
Hatcher Garden
JM Smith Foundation
City of Spartanburg
Spartanburg Men’s Garden Club
Shurburtt Corporation
Roebuck Wholesale Nursery
Spartanburg Community College Foundation
LandArt Design