Home improvement

Free Water-Wise Landscaping Seminars - Dallas

Seminars sponsored by Dallas Water Utilities Conservation, City of Dallas Stormwater Management, and Mountain View College.

Speaker: Landscape designer and author Bonnie Rees

Water-Wise Landscape Design 101

9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Whether you have a new landscape or plan to update an existing area, it is critical to begin with a good design. This program teaches the principles of landscape design with an emphasis on how to create a beautiful landscape that will save resources - natural and financial!

Fantastic Plants for North Texas

Tour of Texas Smartscapes - Coppell

Come pick up a map at the garden that will direct you to homes in Coppell that have implemented the water conservation components of turf reduction, rain barrels, composting, use of mulch, native plants, and more. Hosts at each stop will be available for questions and demonstrations.

For more information www.coppellcommunitygarden.org

Organic Gardening Club Meeting - Arlington

See Website for Speaker Details.

All Things Herbal! - Arlington

Miss Tanna, herbalist extraordinaire from the Tarrant County Urban Homesteading Group, will do a presentation on herbs: planting, growing, harvesting, storing, and using.

Strawberry Tower Construction Workshop - Carrollton

This month DFW Aquaponics Meetup will be sponsoring a short hands-on workshop to teach the techniques necessary to build a "strawberry tower" from common PVC pipe and a few other components. I will have instructions available ($5) that will detail the steps to build the tower, or we will provide the instructions along with the materials to build your own 4' tower ($25) [ Please make a comment in your RSVP if you would like materials to build your own tower.]

These structures are a great place to grow Strawberries (obviously), but also for all types of herbs, greens, and even certain vining plants. I will specifically discuss how to integrate these growing vessels into aquaponics systems and how to calculate their bio-filtration effectiveness.

Electronics Recycling Collection - Plano

Drop off your electronic items: household, office, or personal, we recycle it all!

Here are just some of the items that we recycle:

-Computers

-Televisions

-Monitors

-Circuit Boards

-Servers

-Cellphones

-Radios

-Hard Drives

-Cds

-Networking Equipment

-Back up Tapes

Electronics Recycling Collection - Plano

Drop off your electronic items: household, office, or personal, we recycle it all!

Here are just some of the items that we recycle:

-Computers

-Televisions

-Monitors

-Circuit Boards

-Servers

-Cellphones

-Radios

-Hard Drives

-Cds

-Networking Equipment

-Back up Tapes

Electronics Recycling Collection - Plano

Drop off your electronic items: household, office, or personal, we recycle it all!

Here are just some of the items that we recycle:

-Computers

-Televisions

-Monitors

-Circuit Boards

-Servers

-Cellphones

-Radios

-Hard Drives

-Cds

-Networking Equipment

-Back up Tapes

Soil Biology & Native Plants - Richardson

Presentation on Soil Biology and Native Plants by Texas Discovery Garden's Randy Johnson.

Come learn about the "jungle" of living organisms, the ultimate recyclers
below the surface of the soil who turn organic matter into food. Learn
about the soil structure that is created and how that can have a profound
effect on the plants that you enjoy above the surface of the soil!
In addition, we will discuss the advantages of using Native and adapted
plant material.

Ugly Garden Contest - Dallas

Is your lawn scorched? Are your garden beds a jungle?

Enter our first annual Ugly Garden Contest. Take pictures of your front or back garden, print them out and bring to NORTH HAVEN GARDENS by 5pm, August 26th. We'll choose 5 finalists and visit their homes to assess how bad their landscape really is.

Winner (or loser) announced Friday, September 2nd. You must be in our NHG Delivery zone to qualify. Details here.

All Finalists win a FREE in-store session with our NHG Garden Coach.