How to make your shady space a show stopper!

Join Massachusetts Master Gardener Kathi Gariepy for a lesson on shade gardening. 

This presentation covers a variety of shade situations as well as the unique problems and opportunities of shade gardening. Kathi will suggest the best shade plants to use and describe how to select them so that your garden is in bloom spring through fall. She will also explain how to keep things interesting in the winter.

Kathi Gariepy is a former special needs preschool and kindergarten teacher who has been gardening since childhood. She is a Lifetime Master Gardener with the Massachusetts Master Gardener Association, volunteering more than 10,000 hours, past Vice President of the MMGA, past chair of the Master Gardener Advisory Board, and past president of the Attleboro Garden Club. Kathi is a Landscape Design Consultant and is on the Gardening Study Council. Kathi has worked as a lead teacher for the Massachusetts Horticultural Society and as an education coordinator for MassAudubon, and has studied landscape design at the Rhode Island School of Design. She is the recipient of the MMGA’s Lifetime Achievement Award and the MHS Silver Medal and is currently the chair of the Attleboro Conservation Commission. Kathi teaches children and adults about the wonders of nature. She also owns the garden design company Pleasant Vistas. Kathi lives in an old farmhouse with perennial borders, herb gardens, a vegetable garden, grapes, blueberries, raspberries, and some very old, still producing, apple trees.