Welcome to Suzanne Mahler’s site. She is an avid gardener, photographer and lecturer who has been developing her own property in Hanover, MA, for more than 30 years.
About
Suzanne Mahler has been sharing her passion for gardening for more than 30 years, having spoken at the Boston, Rhode Island, and New England Spring Flower Shows, Art in Bloom at the Museum of Fine Arts, the Environmental Protection Agency, and garden clubs and organizations throughout the New England area. 
She is past President of the New England Daylily Society, an Overseer for the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, and works part-time at a local garden center.
Suzanne has been developing her acre property for 40 years and is an avid plant collector with extensive collections of woody plants and perennials including more than 300 daylily cultivars and 250 varieties of hostas.
Program Offerings
Designing a Garden for All Seasons:
Take a colorful journey through the year with images of plants that offer a progression of bloom and multiple seasons of interest for a landscape that provides beauty year-round.
Get Ready for Spring:
Spring pruning, transplanting trees and shrubs, dividing perennials, and garden themes are covered in this late winter/early spring presentation.
Flowering Trees and Shrubs for the Home Landscape:
Explore the splendor of flowering trees and shrubs with a look beyond the fleeting flowers to varieties that provide colorful foliage and fruits, attractive forms, and textural bark, for interest in more than one season.
Theme Gardens
An illustrated discussion of various garden themes intended to help gardeners create a specialty garden suitable to their personal site and narrow potential plant acquisitions to produce an attractive, cohesive design.
Gardening for Wildlife:
(a) Creating a Garden for Pollinators: learn the best plants to attract a diversity of pollinators and the growing threats and stressors to these essential wildlife visitors.
(b) Butterflies, Hummingbirds, and Other Creatures: includes birds, frogs, and furry creatures.
Perennial Garden Design:
A photographic introduction to garden design covering site options, garden styles, forms and themes, basic design principles, and plant selection.
Perennial Color, Spring Through Fall:
Journey through the growing season with a dazzling display of the hottest new perennials and the tried and true favorites for both sunny and shady sites.
Gardening in the Shade:
Shady sites pose challenges but need not lack pizzazz! Learn which shrubs and perennials tolerate low light while providing fabulous flowers and foliages for a peaceful shady retreat.
Growing Iris, Daylilies and Hostas
A general overview of three diverse plant groups with suggestions for successful culture, propagation, and images to aid in selecting special varieties for your garden.
Discover Daylilies:
An in-depth look at one of the most diverse and easiest of perennials to grow. Discover the broad range of flower colors, patterns, and forms, and ways to use daylilies in the landscape.
Architectural Plants for the Summer Landscape:
Discover the beauty, elegance, and design advantages of using statuesque plants as focal points and for vertical interest to meld shorter plants with taller trees and shrubs in the landscape.
Native Plants Versus Invasive Species:
The presentation will provide images of hardy native plants and local intrusive aliens, with suggestions for eradicating invasive species and live cuttings in season to assist with identification.
Dividing and Transplanting Perennials:
Learn the indicators for perennial plant division, which plants require regular separation, and the best times to split and transplant. Tools of the trade and methods of division will be covered with live demonstrations during the active growing season.
Putting the Garden to Bed:
A presentation covering fall gardening activities including transplanting, lawn care, bulbs, preparing new gardens, and tips for preparing gardens for winter weather.
Great Public Gardens of New England:
Take a colorful journey through the Coastal Maine, Tower Hill, and Berkshire Botanical Gardens, Elm Bank, Heritage Gardens, and several other lovely public venues.
Know and Grow Native Plants:
View lovely photos of hardy native plants and learn why they are critical for healthy ecosystems.