Columbiana Women’s Club to host lunch and learn

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Columbiana Women's Club is hosting a lunch and learn symposium Saturday at The Gardens in Hippley Village, Columbiana. Seated, front left, are club members Vaugh Musser and Pat Tingle. Standing, from left, are club members Kim Bland and Peggy Oberholtzer; Jenny Wehr, floral designer at Willows by Wehr; and Amanda Tkacik, head grower at L&M Greenhouse. Special to The Vindicator

Staff report

COLUMBIANA

Columbiana Women’s Club is hosting “Dishin’ Dirt,” a lunch and learn symposium with gardening experts at The Gardens at Hippley Village, 547 N. Main St., from 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday. It will take place rain or shine.

The Gardens at Hippley Village is a private garden created by John Hippley. Attendees will be able to walk through the grounds to discover several water features from a succulent covered patio table and chairs to a red Village of Columbiana truck with its bed filled with flowers and a cascading waterfall over the bumper.

Gardening experts making presentations are:

• Hippley, a landscape professional, who will present backyard garden design and development of The Gardens at Hippley Village;

• Keith S. Kaiser, horticulture consultant, who will demonstrate successful techniques to create a flowering container which will be auctioned at the event;

• Amanda Tkacik, head grower at L&M Greenhouse, who will present 2016 bedding plant favorites;

• Jenny Wehr, floral designer at Willows by Wehr, who will demonstrate how to use flowers to create the setting for a summer garden party;

• Jenell Martin, Catalpa Grove Farm Garden Center, who will present garden art and succulent arrangements; and

• Kim Linhart, Town and Country Garden Center, who will speak about designing your garden space with statuary and plants.

A box lunch will be served under the tent. Tickets can be purchased at Willows by Wehr, 702 E. Park Ave., 330-482-2223; Vivian’s Antique’s, 24 S. Main St., 330-482-3144; or by calling Donna at 330-482-2267.

Parking and shuttle will be available from First Christian Church, 39 Cherry St., and along Stanton Avenue, follow the signs for “Dishin’ Dirt.”