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Texas native plants seminar
What: A panel of horticulture experts will present on why Texas residents should use plants native to Texas in their gardens
Where: Thomas Leroy Education Center, 9020 Airport Road
When: Oct. 9 at 7 p.m.
Posted: Saturday, September 28, 2013 12:34 pm
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Updated: 1:20 pm, Sat Sep 28, 2013.
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Several years of drought and water restrictions in Southeast Texas have brought about a renewed interest in landscaping with native plants.
Native plants use less water and serve as a food source for wildlife. A hesitancy to use native plants may be lack of knowledge of how to landscape with them or a lack of availability in local nurseries.
The Montgomery County Master Gardener Association will sponsor Landscaping with Texas Natives seminar Oct. 9 at the Thomas LeRoy Education Center, 9020 Airport Road, Conroe at 7 p.m.
Door prizes include native plant books and everyone will receive a native plant. Two speakers will be featured at the seminar.
Alan King of College Station, Texas is an award-winning, registered landscape architect. He will make the case for why residents in Texas should be using native plants in the landscape.
He will present basic elements of good landscape design including style, scale and color.
King has won several awards for his landscape designs including one from HGTV. He is passionate about landscape design and will give information needed to make a good design
Diana Foss, wildlife biologist with Texas Parks and Wildlife, is not only an expert in managing wildlife in urban environments, but has an intense interest in native plants and resource conservation.
She will give recommendations of native plants specific to Southeast Texas.
Those interested in planting for wildlife will learn why native plants are so important in designing wildlife gardens.
Native plants are used in all the demonstration gardens at Texas AgriLife Extension. The garden on the north side of the Extension building is devoted exclusively to native plants.
Come early to the seminar and take a tour around the gardens. And do not forget to come to the 2013 fall plant sale Oct. 12.
The Master Gardeners will offer many native, well-adapted, vegetable and herb plants for your garden.
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