Continual Color Without Continual Hassle - Garden Talk

Inniswood Garden Society IGS Annual Meeting & Garden Reception 2025

Keynote Speaker: Laura Deeter, Ph.D., Professor of Practice – Horticulture and Crop Science, Sandy and Andy Ross Endowed Director Chadwick Arboretum

Sunday, June 1, 2025, 2-4:30PM

Registration: There is no registration, this is a FREE Public Event

Location: Innis House at Inniswood Gardens

Continual Color
Without Continual Hassle

Color theory can guide our plant choices when creating combinations either in the garden or in containers. But with so many options, how does one even start?

Learn different ways to think about plant combinations in your garden.

Keynote Speaker Laura Deeter, Ph.D.
received her Ph.D. in horticulture from The Ohio State University after studying road-salt tolerance in herbaceous perennials under Dr. Steve Still.

She is currently a Professor of Horticulture at The Ohio State University n Horticulture and Crop Science and the Sandy and Andy Ross Endowed Director of the Chadwick Arboretum. She has taught a multitude of horticulture classes including: Woody and Herbaceous Plant Identitication, Lanascape Design, Sustainable Landscaping, Plant Health Management, Landscape Construction, and Ecology, to name a tew.

She was awarded the All Distinguished Teaching Award three times, the OSU Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching, the Perennial Plant Association Teaching Award, the American Horticulture Society Teaching Award, Perennial Plant Association Service Award, a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Ohio Landscape Association, and Protessor of the Year from Instructure. She travels extensively speaking on a variety of topics ranging from taxonomy and
nomenclature to shade gardens, design, color, and specialty gardens and plants.
Her new home is an open canvas for spring planting with two large dogs!