Feel Empowered to Prune 04/16/23, 2 pm - 3:30 pm Barbara Dorfman Learn how, why, and when, to prune. With the right tools, gardeners and homeowners can do the job themselves or supervise family members, instead of being at the mercy of unskilled landscapers with hedge trimmers and chainsaws. Click here to sign up.
Join Us at Beech Hollow Farm for Earth Day Tanner will lead a walk through the Sun and Shade Gardens at 11:00. At 12:30 he will give a short presentation on Native Pollinators. This is a free event and preseentation, please click here to RSVP. Meanwhile, Tanner and I are working on some special wildflower...
Join us in Avondale for Earth Day: Avondale ACTion is sponsoring an Earth Day Celebration in Avondale 2-5pm at the new town green pavilion. More info here.
04/24/22 Composting 2pm - 3:30 pm Trecia Neal Stop throwing out the other black gold: nutrients. Learn hands-on how to take garden debris and turn it into rich, water-holding compost, perfect for droughts. Trecia Neal will present the best way to create compost in your landscape. Click here to sign up.
05/07/23 One Butterfly at a Time 2pm - 3:30 pm, Pandra Williams Free presentation with pictures and handouts about butterflies native to the Piedmont area and their nectaring, general habitat and larval host needs.
09/18/22 Gardening for Wildlife 2pm - 3:30 pm, Andrea Greco Learn to select, arrange and maintain the native plants that play a critical role in the life cycles of the birds,bees, butterflies and other beloved creatures we want to attract to our yards. Sign up here:
Red Wigglers galore! In this exciting hands-on workshop Trecia Neal from Green Gardens Education & Designs, participants will learn how worms called red wigglers eat food waste and turn it into nutrient rich compost, be given activities on vermicomposting, and leave with their own worm bin. Click here for sign up information.
Xeriscape - the Dry Garden - with Andrea Greco 09/24/23 2 pm - 3:30 pm Xeriscaping (zeh·ruh·skay·puhng) is a landscaping technique involving the use of conscientious design to create a drought tolerant and lower maintenance landscape that will conserve the use of supplemental water. While the Atlanta region typically experiences generous seasonal rainfalls, we regularly...
Welcome to the Piedmont Prairie - with Linda Chafin 09/30/23 2 pm - 3:30 pm Please join us Saturday September 30th from 2-3:30, as Georgia wildflower expert Linda Chafin gives a presentation about Piedmont Prairies in Georgia: are they really prairies? How do we know? What plants and animals are found there? Class starts...
(12pm) Designing Native Habitat for Birds and Pollinators, led by Georgia Audubon's Alex LoCastro: This presentation will walk attendees through the process of designing a native plant garden for the benefit of birds and insect pollinators. The program will discuss pollination, the importance of native plants, bird and insect needs, design considerations, and more. No RSVP...
