Learn simple steps to create a Monarch Way Station in your backyard. Carol Clark, Monarch Watch Conservation Specialist, presents the monarch life cycle, its magnificent migration through Texas and actions you can take now to support conservation of this threatened butterfly.
This month we will be honoring our Friend, Molly Hollar, on her birthday by hunting down and pulling pesky patches of privet that have propagated in previously privet free parts of the Park. We'll also be working in our pollinator beds and picking up litter.
We invite you to join Molly, and the Friends, for all or part of the morning, or drop by and wish Molly a Happy Birthday!
Please bring your favorite tools for privet removal, gardening, or pruning and work gloves, or litter picker upper.
Marshall Grain experts will present “Organic Weed Control,” a review of various organic herbicides and pre-emergent products to control seed germination and weed growth to help keep your lawn and flower beds weed free.
Join us in exploring both new and old techniques and tools to enhance your current field observation skills. $10.
Join BRIT and Kim Martin and Laurie Bostic of Barking Cat Farm and learn the basic principles of permaculture. $25.
Friends of Tandy Hills Natural Area hosts a Brush Bash one day a year to clear sections of the prairie of invasive and unwanted trees, brush and trash. Bring gloves, sturdy shoes, hat, water, tarps, loppers, wheelbarrows and wagons. Coffee, tea, hot cocoa & morning snacks provided. All ages welcome.
Lucy Harrell of Lucy's Gardening Services will offer gardening tips for the coming year. Info: Bob Ressl at 817-706-6677.
The Urban Forest Advisory Committee works with City of Dallas officials to create, maintain, and protect the city’s trees and forests and to educate the public about trees. Everyone interested in trees is welcome! Info: Sara Beckelman sbwormlady@gmail.com
Gardening on a Shoestring: confessions of a frugal gardener.
Speaker: Fran Powell, Dallas County Master Gardener. Fran comes from a family of English gardeners. Her mother instilled in her children a love of the mysteries of life in the garden; from planting seeds, watching their growth and enjoying and harvesting the results. Fran’s eldest sister became the best of the gardeners and supplies her home with all the vegetables and fruit they need, as well as a plethora of flowers.
Refreshments and social time: 2:30
Meeting start: 3pm
Landscape designer and author Bonnie Reese of Beautiful Landscapes will be the speaker at both sessions. First-time seminar attendees at each session will receive a copy of Bonnie’s book, “Common-Sense Landscaping” (limit one per household). Attendees can also enter a drawing to win a bag of Green Sense organic fertilizer from Rohde’s Nursery and Nature Store. There will be 3 drawings per session.
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