Speaking & Teaching
At Tranquil Lake, we offer a wide range of educational and informational talks and events at the Nursery. In addition, landscape horticulturist and garden designer Warren Leach is also available to give lectures at your event. To invite Warren to your event and to discuss speaking fees send an e-mail to Tranquil Lake Nursery or contact Warren at 508-252-4002.
Upcoming Public Speaking Engagements
With Warren Leach
Monday, November 18, 2024 7:00 p.m. |
Chartley Garden Club Norton Media Center, 184 West Main Street, Norton, MA $5 fee for visitors. Send an e-mail to register |
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Celebrating the Winter Garden |
The winter garden is truly a low maintenance affair and a time to enjoy - no weeding, no watering and no dead-heading! The winter landscape may be quiescent but the garden need not be bleak. Plants with brightly colored berries, twigs, stems, foliage and even winter-blooming flowers shrug off the snow and cold. They bring cheer, even as the sun enters Capricorn. Landscape horticulturist Warren Leach, and author of the new book from Timber Press Plants for the Winter Garden, will showcase gardens he has designed that celebrate the winter season as well as planting design ideas for your own garden. | |
Wednesday, November 20, 2024 6:30 p.m. |
124 Bay State Road, Rehoboth, MA Free and open to the public. |
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Celebrating the Winter Garden |
The winter garden is truly a low maintenance affair and a time to enjoy - no weeding, no watering and no dead-heading! The winter landscape may be quiescent but the garden need not be bleak. Plants with brightly colored berries, twigs, stems, foliage and even winter-blooming flowers shrug off the snow and cold. They bring cheer, even as the sun enters Capricorn. Landscape horticulturist Warren Leach, and author of the new book from Timber Press Plants for the Winter Garden, will showcase gardens he has designed that celebrate the winter season as well as planting design ideas for your own garden. | |
Thursday, January 9, 2025 10:45 a.m. |
Norwell Public Library, 64 South Street, Norwell, MA Free and open to the public. Send an e-mail to register. |
Drought Tolerant Gardening and Landscaping |
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Thoughtfully designing and planting our display gardens to thrive, even in a rainfall shortage, has been an essential gardening practice at Tranquil Lake Nursery with our sandy-loam soils and the recent erratic rainfall. Planting for drought tolerance is being recognized as a sustainable paradigm for all landscapes as unlimited water use becomes prohibited and costly. Explore verdant and water-wise gardens with Landscape Horticulturist Warren Leach as he introduces a broad palette of hardy trees, shrubs and perennials. Warren will showcase several drought tolerant plant alternatives to turf grass showing before and after landscape designs. This colorful and fiery presentation of garden images will inspire your own sustainable garden. Whether you garden in sun or shade, you will take away valuable horticultural ideas for your own garden. |
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Saturday, January 11, 2025 12:00 noon. |
The Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University 125 Arborway, Jamaica Plain, MA |
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Celebrating the Winter Garden |
The winter garden is truly a low maintenance affair and a time to enjoy - no weeding, no watering and no dead-heading! The winter landscape may be quiescent but the garden need not be bleak. Plants with brightly colored berries, twigs, stems, foliage and even winter-blooming flowers shrug off the snow and cold. They bring cheer, even as the sun enters Capricorn. Landscape horticulturist Warren Leach, and author of the new book from Timber Press Plants for the Winter Garden, will showcase gardens he has designed that celebrate the winter season as well as planting design ideas for your own garden. | |
Monday, January 13, 2025 6:00 p.m. |
410 Newman Avenue, Seekonk, MA Free and open to the public. |
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Celebrating the Winter Garden |
The winter garden is truly a low maintenance affair and a time to enjoy - no weeding, no watering and no dead-heading! The winter landscape may be quiescent but the garden need not be bleak. Plants with brightly colored berries, twigs, stems, foliage and even winter-blooming flowers shrug off the snow and cold. They bring cheer, even as the sun enters Capricorn. Landscape horticulturist Warren Leach, and author of the new book from Timber Press Plants for the Winter Garden, will showcase gardens he has designed that celebrate the winter season as well as planting design ideas for your own garden. | |
Saturday, January 18, 2025 10:00 a.m. |
585 Blackstone Boulevard Providence, RI 02906 Free and open to the public. Send an e-mail to register |
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Celebrating the Winter Garden |
The winter garden is truly a low maintenance affair and a time to enjoy - no weeding, no watering and no dead-heading! The winter landscape may be quiescent but the garden need not be bleak. Plants with brightly colored berries, twigs, stems, foliage and even winter-blooming flowers shrug off the snow and cold. They bring cheer, even as the sun enters Capricorn. Landscape horticulturist Warren Leach, and author of the new book from Timber Press Plants for the Winter Garden, will showcase gardens he has designed that celebrate the winter season as well as planting design ideas for your own garden. | |
Sunday, July 19, 2025 2:00 p.m. |
New England Botanic Garden at Tower Hill 11 French Drive, Boylston, MA There is a fee for this program |
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Celebrating the Winter Garden |
The winter garden is truly a low maintenance affair and a time to enjoy - no weeding, no watering and no dead-heading! The winter landscape may be quiescent but the garden need not be bleak. Plants with brightly colored berries, twigs, stems, foliage and even winter-blooming flowers shrug off the snow and cold. They bring cheer, even as the sun enters Capricorn. Landscape horticulturist Warren Leach, and author of the new book from Timber Press Plants for the Winter Garden, will showcase gardens he has designed that celebrate the winter season as well as planting design ideas for your own garden. | |
Sunday, January 26, 2025 11 a.m. |
Long Hill Estate of the Trustees of Reservations 576 Essex Street Beverly, MA There is a fee for this program |
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Celebrating the Winter Garden |
The winter garden is truly a low maintenance affair and a time to enjoy - no weeding, no watering and no dead-heading! The winter landscape may be quiescent but the garden need not be bleak. Plants with brightly colored berries, twigs, stems, foliage and even winter-blooming flowers shrug off the snow and cold. They bring cheer, even as the sun enters Capricorn. Landscape horticulturist Warren Leach, and author of the new book from Timber Press Plants for the Winter Garden, will showcase gardens he has designed that celebrate the winter season as well as planting design ideas for your own garden. | |
Saturday, February 8, 2025 10 a.m. to 12 noon snowdate: Saturday, March 1 |
Blithewold Mansion, Gardens and Arboretum 101 Ferry Road Bristol, RI There is a fee for this program |
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Celebrating the Winter Garden |
The winter garden is truly a low maintenance affair and a time to enjoy - no weeding, no watering and no dead-heading! The winter landscape may be quiescent but the garden need not be bleak. Plants with brightly colored berries, twigs, stems, foliage and even winter-blooming flowers shrug off the snow and cold. They bring cheer, even as the sun enters Capricorn. Landscape horticulturist Warren Leach, and author of the new book from Timber Press Plants for the Winter Garden, will showcase gardens he has designed that celebrate the winter season as well as planting design ideas for your own garden. | |
Wednesday, February 12, 2025 afternoon |
Winter Conference and Trade Show Massachusetts Nursery and Landscape Association Best Western Royal Plaza, Marlborough, MA Free with admission to the conference |
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Celebrating the Winter Garden |
The winter garden is truly a low maintenance affair and a time to enjoy - no weeding, no watering and no dead-heading! The winter landscape may be quiescent but the garden need not be bleak. Plants with brightly colored berries, twigs, stems, foliage and even winter-blooming flowers shrug off the snow and cold. They bring cheer, even as the sun enters Capricorn. Landscape horticulturist Warren Leach, and author of the new book from Timber Press Plants for the Winter Garden, will showcase gardens he has designed that celebrate the winter season as well as planting design ideas for your own garden. | |
Thursday, February 13, 2025 9:15 a.m. |
Winter Conference and Trade Show Massachusetts Nursery and Landscape Association Best Western Royal Plaza, Marlborough, MA Free with admission to the conference |
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Keynote Address: Probing Phenology: Practical Planting Solutions That Adapt to Current Climatic Disruption |
The bloom sequence of flowering plants is subject to environmental triggers such as extremes in temperature, such as heat and cold, as well as soil moisture and drought. Landscape Horticulturist Warren Leach will examine some characteristics of woody plants and herbaceous perennials that show resilience to erratic climate extremes. He will also illustrate planting techniques and floriferous landscapes that can successfully withstand meterological fluctuations. | |
Tuesday, March 4, 2025 9:00 a.m. |
The Parish Hall, Marion Guests are welcome; $5 admission fee, send an e-mail to register |
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Beyond Blooms: Creative Design with Color, Structure and Seasonal Senescence |
Warren Leach, talented garden designer and owner of Tranquil Lake Nursery in Rehoboth, will recommend a diverse selection of superlative plants with exceptional foliage characteristics in his talk “Beyond Blooms: Creative Design with Color, Structure and Seasonal Senescence”. Warren will highlight woody and herbaceous plants with good garden foliage color, architectural structure, multi-season interest and stunning shape and texture characteristics that can be used in a diversity of ways to compliment flowers, provide structure and offer seasonal succession in the mixed border. Warren will also suggest plant combinations that you can translate into your own garden, echoing leaf colors and texture to brighten the garden through the seasons. |
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Tuesday, March 4, 2025 7:00 p.m. |
Evening Garden Club of West Roxbury The Elk Club, West Roxbury Guests are welcome, send an e-mail to register |
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Beyond Blooms: Creative Design with Color, Structure and Seasonal Senescence |
Warren Leach, talented garden designer and owner of Tranquil Lake Nursery in Rehoboth, will recommend a diverse selection of superlative plants with exceptional foliage characteristics in his talk “Beyond Blooms: Creative Design with Color, Structure and Seasonal Senescence”. Warren will highlight woody and herbaceous plants with good garden foliage color, architectural structure, multi-season interest and stunning shape and texture characteristics that can be used in a diversity of ways to compliment flowers, provide structure and offer seasonal succession in the mixed border. Warren will also suggest plant combinations that you can translate into your own garden, echoing leaf colors and texture to brighten the garden through the seasons. |
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Wednesday, March 5, 2025 6:30 p.m. |
Oak Point Garden Club Oak Point Clubhouse, Middleboro |
Plant Combinations for a Long Season of Bloom |
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You can enjoy colorful and fragrant flowers even in January, long before the vernal equinox and have blooms celebrate all of the other seasons; spring, summer and fall! This is not a fanciful ideal and you don’t need a heated greenhouse or conservatory. Landscape Horticulturist Warren Leach will introduce plants and planting combination to extend your garden enjoyment. |
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Friday, March 7 to Sunday, March 9, 2025 |
Champlain Valley Expo Center, Essex Junction, Vermont |
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2 Garden Lectures: Celebrating the Winter Garden & Cold-Hardy Containers: Rugged Shrubs in Permanent Pots Add Life to the Frozen Landscape" |
The winter garden is truly a low maintenance affair and a time to enjoy - no weeding, no watering and no dead-heading! The winter landscape may be quiescent but the garden need not be bleak. Plants with brightly colored berries, twigs, stems, foliage and even winter-blooming flowers shrug off the snow and cold. They bring cheer, even as the sun enters Capricorn. Landscape horticulturist Warren Leach, and author of the new book from Timber Press Plants for the Winter Garden, will showcase gardens he has designed that celebrate the winter season as well as planting design ideas for your own garden. | |
Saturday, May 31, 2025 10:15 a.m. |
Cape Cod Hydrangea Society |
Designing, Constructing and Planting the Entry Garden | |
The garden space between the street, driveway, walkway and your home offers a powerful first impression to someone arriving to your door. Landscape Horticulturist Warren Leach, owner of Tranquil Lake Nursery in Rehoboth, Massachusetts, will take you on a visual tour of enticing entry gardens using before and after scenarios. He will focus on walkway design and construction techniques, solving problems of scale and grade as well as showcasing a rich planting palette that offers year-round beauty with an eye on low-maintenance. Your entry garden will be a pleasure for you to enjoy as well as a warm welcoming to guests. |
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Tuesday, September 30, 2025 6:30 p.m. |
Lakeville Garden Club Lakeville Senior Center, Lakeville, MA |
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Celebrating the Winter Garden |
The winter garden is truly a low maintenance affair and a time to enjoy - no weeding, no watering and no dead-heading! The winter landscape may be quiescent but the garden need not be bleak. Plants with brightly colored berries, twigs, stems, foliage and even winter-blooming flowers shrug off the snow and cold. They bring cheer, even as the sun enters Capricorn. Landscape horticulturist Warren Leach, and author of the new book from Timber Press Plants for the Winter Garden, will showcase gardens he has designed that celebrate the winter season as well as planting design ideas for your own garden. | |
Thursday, November 6, 2025 6:30 p.m. |
The Village Garden Club Boxford, MA |
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Celebrating the Winter Garden |
The winter garden is truly a low maintenance affair and a time to enjoy - no weeding, no watering and no dead-heading! The winter landscape may be quiescent but the garden need not be bleak. Plants with brightly colored berries, twigs, stems, foliage and even winter-blooming flowers shrug off the snow and cold. They bring cheer, even as the sun enters Capricorn. Landscape horticulturist Warren Leach, and author of the new book from Timber Press Plants for the Winter Garden, will showcase gardens he has designed that celebrate the winter season as well as planting design ideas for your own garden. |
Read More about Warren's New Book | |
Perennials, Grasses, Shrubs, and Trees to add Interest in the Cold and Snow
by Warren Leach Timber Press Available November 5, 2024 ISBN 978-1-60469-926-5 |
Read Articles by Warren Leach | |
Cold-Hard Containers
Rugged shrubs in permanent pots add life to the frozen landscape
by Warren Leach Horticulture Magazine November / December 2024 pp. 26 - 33 article excerpted from Plants for the Winter Garden |
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Geometry Makes a Garden Better
by Warren Leach Fine Gardening Magazine April 2023 pp. 46 - 55 |
For more information or to request a speaking engagement, send an e-mail with request details to Tranquil Lake Nursery