Presented by Allen Johnson, Britton Nursery
Allen will focus on tough and interesting perennials, most of which you will find at the upcoming HAS Plant Sale. Britton’s is a CNGA nursery as well asa Plant Select propagation nursery, and Allen has worked with them for nearly eight years. They’ve been a supplier for our plant sale for many years. So come prepared to make your plant sale shopping list!
Free to all at the East Library, 5550 E. Union Blvd.
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Presented by Larry Vickerman, Director of Denver Botanic Gardens at Chatfield
Free and open to the public.
Saturday, Apr 14, 2011, 10:00 a.m.
(Tour of the grounds, 9:00 a.m.)
The Penrose House
1661 Mesa Avenue (map)
Reservations are required. Please make yours by emailing hasgardens@gmail.com
Many of you remember Larry Vickerman from a few years ago when he was the County Director and Horticulture Agent for El Paso County. Since then he’s done an terrific job overseeing the Chatfield nature preserve of Denver Botanic Gardens. So he knows a thing or two about native plants and bio-diversity. We are pleased to bring him back to town with the question, “What is bio-diversity and why should we worry about it?”
Tour Before the Talk
If you’d like to learn more about the plants and landscape design at the Penrose House grounds, be sure to come at 9:00 a.m. for a walking tour with Leslie Thomas of Thomas and Thomas Planning, Urban Design, & Landscape Architecture.
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Presented by Pam Hamamoto
“Some you know, and some I’ll bet you don’t!” That’s what Pam is teasing us with for this informative presentation on shrubs for our area. She also promises that most of them are low-water-using while others are even no-water-using! And, best of all, most have been ordered for the big plant sale.
Free to all at the East Library, 5550 E. Union Blvd.
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Presented by Debbie Strawn
Free to all at the East Library, 5550 E. Union Blvd.
For this special program, start cutting interesting seedheads and flowers and drying them. Bring them and a six-inch pot to this session, and you’ll take home an arrangement as well as help us create one-of-a-kind centerpieces for our annual dinner tables. **Please spray your dried flowers and seedheads with hair spray (cheapest is best).**
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Presented by Randy Gray
Free to all at the East Library, 5550 E. Union Blvd.
As gardeners, we are all aware of and interested in the exciting weather of our area (how about that 4.5″ rain on Sep 14?). Randy Gray will talk to us about weather issues in the southeast Colorado region. He is the Southeast Colorado CoCoRaHS (Community Collaborative Rain, Hail, and Snow Network) Regional Coordinator and is based in the Pueblo National Weather Service office. Visit their site at www.crh.noaa.gov/pub. And you can visit the CoCoRaHS site at www.cocorahs.org.
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