Town and Country Garden Club of Newtown's program for Wednesday, April 13 is "Sustainable Perennial Garden Design -Working With Nature," a slides and PowerPoint presentation by Robert Herman.American Nurseryman, Fine Gardening, the German magazine Garden and Landscape, and the Hardy Plant Society Journal in England.

The presentation starts at 7 pm at Newtown Senior Center, 14 Riverside Road in Sandy Hook. Admission is free and Open to the public.

Robert Herman has over 30 years of experience as a professional horticulturist, almost seven of which were spent in Europe as "Meister" for the Countess von Zeppelin Nursery in Germany.

At Missouri Botanical Garden he served in the horticulture and education departments, and at White Flower Farm in Litchfield, he was Director of Horticulture.

Mr Herman has taught for the University of Massachusetts (Amherst) and the former Radcliffe College in Cambridge, Mass., as well as the International Master of Landscape Architecture program at Anhalt University in Germany.

He currently teaches part-time in the Horticulture Department at Naugatuck Valley Community College. His articles have appeared in

In 2010 Mr Herman received the American Horticultural Society's Teaching Award and the Perennial Plant Association's Academic Award.

Reservations for Town and Country Garden Club programs are not needed, but additional information is available by calling 203-405-3171 or 203-426-2785.

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