Design Tips for Knockout, Easy-Care Perennial Gardens

Friday, March 28, Noon - 1:00 p.m.

Portland Public Library

Meeting Room #5

Portland, Maine - Get the WOW factor in your garden by learning the tricks of the trade from well known gardening expert, Kerry Ann Mendez.  Kerry is the owner of Perennially Yours and resides in Kennebunk, ME.  As a garden consultant, designer, author and lecturer, she focuses on time-saving gardening techniques, exceptional plants, and organic methods.  Mendez has been featured in many national magazines including Fine Gardening, Garden Gate, Horticulture and Better Homes and Gardens SIP. She’s been a guest on HGTV and was the perennial host for Capital News 9’s television segment.  Her gardening books, The Ultimate Flower Gardener’s Top Ten Lists and Top Ten Lists for Beautiful Shade Gardens are top sellers for gardeners in Zones 3 through 7.

Kerry Ann Mendez is the garden columnist for Life@Home magazine and writes freelance pieces for regional and national magazines. As a presenter for Horticulture magazine’s 2010 and 2011 national webinars series, her webinars attracted thousands of gardeners.  Over 10,000 people have enjoyed her lectures nationally and internationally.  She is a self-taught gardener and ‘passionate perennialist’ that enjoys mixing humor with practical information.  In April 2014, Mendez will join the team at Estabrook’s Nursery, a premier garden center in Yarmouth, Kennebunk and Scarborough.   For more about Mendez, visit www.pyours.com.