OCTOBER 28 New to us as a speaker here, Warren Leach is a name that you may know well. Warren is co-owner of Tranquil Lake Nursery in Rehoboth, MA, a prominent grower of Hemerocallis, Iris ensata and Iris sibirica.  He is a passionate plant collector, nurseryman and horticulturist.  He has forced plants and been an award winning exhibitor in The New England Spring Flower Show for twenty years. He has also judged the Boston, Philadelphia and Worcester Flower Shows. He is an award winning landscape designer, twice receiving the National Landscape Assoc. Regional Certificate of Merit for Residential Landscape Design. Images of his garden at Brigham Hill Farm in N. Grafton, MA are archived at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.  Warren is an admired speaker and educator at numerous Horticultural Institutions, Botanic Gardens and Professional Nursery Organizations throughout the Northeast. He is a frequent instructor at the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University.  Born and raised in Maine, he is a graduate of the University of Maine, Orono. He will give us some ideas for design in the garden in his talk entitled Eden’s Essential Elements, Shade and Water.  We will explore a harmony of contrasts, drought and oasis; plants that thrive in the dry garden, in baking sun, and are enjoyed from the comfort of shade and refreshing water. This venerable garden style developed in Islamic Persia and was cultivated throughout arid Mediterranean environment with crowning ideal of art, architecture and horticulture found at the Alhambra in Spain.  Horticulturist and garden designer Warren Leach will explore this ancient garden paradigm restated in contemporary gardens in harmony with the New England landscape and climate.