"Our Big Back Yard" Garden Talk

New Canaan native, Susan Bergen, will present "Our Big Back Yard," a photo journey through four seasons in her own backyard New Canaan garden. The program, sponsored by the New Canaan Garden Center, will be held at the New Canaan Library at 9am in the Lamb Room and is open to the public. 

Susan Bergen grew up with gardening parents on Ponus Ridge. "My father was a chemist by trade, but a farmer at heart, he kept a very large vegetable garden, plus a raspberry patch and fruit trees," Ms. Bergen noted. "My mother tended a sunny perennial border, and was an early convert to the environmental movement. She taught me the names of all the backyard birds. My brothers and I also spent a lot of hours catching frogs and turtles."

"When I started gardening on my own" Ms Bergen continued, "it was only natural that I viewed my backyard as a natural habitat for birds and other wildlife. Every garden, no matter how small teems with life."

"Our Big Back Yard" is a study in what goes on at eye level on a two acre property at the edge of the eastern woods. The photos include buds and flowers, birds, insects, frogs, snakes and other furry visitors, and daily dramas played out and usually unnoticed by humans.