Horticultural Alliance Hosts 'Creating Winter Interest in Gardens' January 7

The Horticultural Alliance of the Hamptons will present a roundtable this Saturday, January 7, in Bridgehampton on winter interest in gardens — and the event is free and open to the public.

Taking place at the HAH John LoGerfo Library in the Bridgehampton Community House, the discussion will have an emphasis on hellebores, a genus of deer-resistant perennials with evergreen foliage and blooms that begin in early winter and continue through April.

Lori Barnaby, a longtime HAH member as well as the principal of the design firm Lori Barnaby Group, will speak about hellebores, Camellia, Mahonia, winterberry and other plants of interest, and Erika Shank, a founding member of the horticultural alliance, will share photos of the Helleborus varieties in her own garden.

The event is titled “Creating Winter Interest in Gardens: Evergreens, Berries, and Colorful Blooms, Branches & Bark” and will touch on a variety of deer-resistant and evergreen shrubs and trees such as Osmanthus (false holly), Chamaecyparis (false cypress), boxwood, Pieris (Andromeda), and Skimmia japonica, as well as arborvitae, Rhododendron, Azalea, Aucuba, Ilex (holly), Kalmia (mountain laurel), Nandina, yews and the native Juniperus virginiana (eastern red cedar) as well as other plants that provide color with berries, bark and branches.

Saturday’s event runs from 10:30 a.m. to noon. Masking is optional but encouraged.

For more information, visit hahgarden.org.