Local Event for Gardeners

The annual event featured here is one of the best around for anyone interested in food gardening or working in the landscape.  I know personally or have heard presentations from each of this year's presenters, and I'm confident this will be worth your time.  A lot of visuals accompany the lectures, making them memorable and interesting.  If you attend, you might even be lucky enough to win a door prize.  I once won a $20.00 gift certificate to Bornholdt's.


A Gathering for Gardeners

Saturday, March 9, 2013

Come to any or all topics; the event is free.

8:30 a.m.
Doors open at Our Redeemer Lutheran Church, 407 E. 12th Ave.  (West of the Cosmosphere on 12th)

9 a.m.
Compost Happens! James Taylor, retired instructor, Hutchinson Community College

10 a.m.
Plants that Need Less Water, Scott Vogt, director of Dyck Arboretum of the Plains, Hesston

11 a.m. 
Top 40 Prairie Star Annuals for Color, Alan Stevens, director of K-State Horticulture Research Centers, Hays, Colby, Wichita and Olathe

Noon- lunch on your own

1 p.m. 
Most Common Plant Problems, Ward Upham, extension associate, K-State Research & Extension, Manhattan

2 p.m.
Container Gardens-Succulents, Flowers and More, Ben Miller, president, Stutzmans Greenhouse, Hutchinson

3 p.m.
Curb Appeal- Landscaping your Front Yard, Bob Neier, Ornamental Horticulture Agent, K- State Research & Extension, Wichita