December 2, 2014 Kim’s Weekly Garden
Newsletter © Kim Willis
These weekly garden notes are written by Kim Willis,
unless another author is noted, and the opinions expressed in these notes are
her opinions and do not represent any other individual, group or organizations
opinions.
Hi Gardeners
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| Nightshade berries on evergreens. |
The sun has been teasing us a bit today but watch out
for freezing drizzle tonight and tomorrow morning. This up and down temperature cycle is
frustrating but I hate the gloomy gray days the most and we sure seem to have a
lot of them. All I want is for it to
climb a bit above freezing each day so the hose to the barn will run.
Since Sunday was mild I took the opportunity to pick
red berries off the woody nightshade vines on my fence and add them to the
evergreens I had in my deck boxes. It
actually worked quite well and looked nice, although I am not sure the berries
will remain there since I have seen some chickens eying them. The chickens love the berries on woody
nightshade and jump or climb as high as they can to reach them. They aren’t hurt by them at all. Wild birds don’t start eating the berries
until later in the winter.
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| Streptocarpus |
My Christmas cacti are starting to bloom inside as well
as the streptocarpus. I have red and pink geraniums in bloom on the porch so I
am not flower free but I do miss the flowers outside. Everything looks messy and dingy outside. The grass is still green though. Chickweed is growing like crazy- I picked a
big mess of it to feed my young hens who are confined. My other birds are still roaming their yards.
I am starting to get seed catalogs- are you? They do make for some inspirational reading
this time of year. You can even find
ideas for great Christmas gifts. I hope
to have a list next week of some great Christmas presents for gardeners that I
have noticed.
December
almanac
This month’s full moon is called the Full Cold or Long
Nights moon and occurs on December 6th. There are two meteor displays that may be
visible in December. On the 13th
and 14th there is the peak of the best regular meteor event, the Geminids
Meteor Shower. Some meteors may be
visible from the 7th through the 17th. But on the peak days around 120 meteors or
shooting stars may be seen per hour. The
best viewing is after midnight. On
December 22nd and 23rd you may be able to see a lesser
meteor shower, the Ursids meteor shower, which typically produces about 10
meteors per hour at its peak. Once again
best viewing will be after midnight.
December 21st is the winter solstice. It
marks the longest night of the year and the beginning of winter. At this time the sun is at its farthest point
in the south and lowest point on the horizon.
Many people including myself consider this to be the end of the old
year. Now the days will be getting
longer, if only by seconds at first. Re-birth, renewal, the conquering of death,
the return of the sun are symbolized in the solstice. It’s a time for
celebration as it was for our early ancestors.
Christmas is celebrated near the solstice because people already
celebrated re-birth and promise at this time and early Christians frequently
borrowed old rituals. Burn some oak wood
at midnight and make a wish for what you desire as you look into the the fire. Take some time to reflect on what you could
have done better last year and decide your path for the new year.
December’s birthstone is turquoise. The December birth
flower is oddly enough the narcissus.
This may be because it was associated with death, (its poisonous) by the
ancient Romans and Greeks but now it is often used as a symbol of hope. We are entering the time of the death of the
old year but still, it seems odd. In
flower “language” narcissus is said to mean “you are the only one” or
alternatively faithfulness, respect and modesty.
Recently holly has been favored to replace narcissus as
the December birth flower and to me seems more appropriate. Holly is a symbol of domestic happiness in
flower language.
Things to celebrate in December besides the solstice
and Christmas include Pearl Harbor Day- the 7th and Poinsettia day
on the 12th, National Bake Cookies day, the 18th, Look
for Evergreens day the 19th. Besides being Christmas Eve the 24th
is National Chocolate day and National Egg Nog day.
December is National Bingo month by the way.
From
football to farmer
I don’t care for football, a vicious sport that ruins
the brains of many who participate in it.
But at least one football player had enough brains left to get out and
do something promising with his life. Jason
Brown was a young, star player for the St. Louis Rams in 2011 when he left his 37.5
million dollar contract and became a farmer.
After being in the NFL for seven years the 28 year old player
grew disillusioned with his role as a sports “hero.” He
wondered why people like his brother who died in Iraq, got less publicity and
respect than someone who simply pushed other people around in a game. He was embarrassed when he was mobbed by fans
and felt he didn’t deserve adulation. A
strong Christian, Jason felt he needed to do something for others, something
more than entertaining them in a blood sport, to feel better about himself.
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| Jason Brown. Photo credit newsobserver.com |
Jason was strongly drawn to farming, even though he
wasn’t raised on a farm and knew little about it. He delved into research on farming and then
bought more than a thousand acres of land and an old dairy farm in North
Carolina, his home state. He and his wife Tay, who is a dentist, moved onto the
farm in 2012 with their 3 small children and Jason got to work. He loves
working with his hands and does most of the farm work himself.
Jason named his farm First Fruits Farm and his plan was
to donate the first part of his crop every year to feed the hungry. He planted fruit trees and grape vines and
researched what crops would be good to grow for food banks and homeless
shelters. He stocked the four ponds on
his property with fish in hopes that one day underprivileged youth could fish
there. He researched ways to bring
wildlife to the farm and provide good habitat.
Jason’s crop in 2013 was largely ruined by bad weather
near the time of harvest. With the
guidance of another area farmer Jason was much more successful this season and
is very happy with his contribution to local food banks. Jason donated his entire crop of sweet
potatoes, 100,000 pounds of them, and 10,000 pounds of cucumbers to food banks
and shelters. Several gleaners groups and
charitable organizations helped him hand harvest the crops but Jason was right
beside them in the fields, picking up sweet potatoes.
Jason grins when he’s praised by the public now. He says he’s satisfied and happy with his
contributions to the public. He feels blessed by helping others. He’s hoping to have some fishing tournaments
for kids on the farm this spring and plans to grow even more food crops for
donation next year.
Jason “harvested” something even more special just a
few weeks ago. In November he helped his
wife deliver their fourth child at home in a surprise delivery, putting those
self-sufficiency skills to work. He
named the boy Lunsford Bernard Brown III, after his brother who died serving
his country, and says he finally feels worthy to carry on in his brother’s
footsteps.
Jason Brown is just what we need, not more football
players, but concerned and giving people who aren’t afraid to work hard for
their dreams and who care about others.
Moistened
by the blood of heroes
Ok, since we are speaking of hero’s here’s a story
recently released by the Wisconsin Historical Society. The Wisconsin State Herbarium was combing
through its specimens when it found a letter attached to a pressed specimen of Cassia
obtusifolia, the wild Sensitive plant, in a collection from the late botanist Increase
Lapham, whose collection founded the herbarium.
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| Cassia obtusifolia. Credit NCU Extension |
The letter and dried plant were sent to Lapham from a
friend, John Cornelius McMullen who was a Union army captain stationed in
Georgia. He found the plant outside his
tent on the front lines of a battlefield outside Atlanta during the Civil War. It was amazing that as McMullen listened to “the noise of 500 pieces of artillery” he
found time to pluck a plant that he described as "certainly the most interesting specimen I ever saw," and press it to send with a letter to his
friend. In the letter he says: “This flower was moistened by the blood of
heroes, for Wisconsin men have died where it was plucked.”
While little is known of Captain McMullen after the war,
(he did survive), Lapham, who was a Quaker, is considered to be the first
natural historian of Wisconsin. The Wisconsin Historical Society has published
his biography; Studying Wisconsin: The Life of Increase Lapham.
I just find it amazing that even on a battlefield some
men were observing the plants stained by their comrade’s blood and found time
to wonder about them, collect them and send them off to be identified. I wonder if McMullen ever talked to Lapham
and found out the name of the plant he was so interested in?
Buffalo
Bird Woman’s Garden
More botanical history- it must be the theme this week. I was searching for a book on line when I
came across this book Buffalo Bird
Woman’s Garden. The book is a reprint of a book published
in 1918 by Gilbert L. Wilson. Wilson was
pursuing a doctorate in anthropological studies at the University of Minnesota and
decided that for his thesis he would study the agricultural practices of the
Mandan-Hidatsa Native American culture.
Wilson had already been a missionary among the tribes and had collected
historical artifacts for the American Museum of Natural History.
Wilson chose for his study to interview a Hidatsa
woman, Maxi’diwiac or in English, Buffalo Bird Woman, who was born about 1839, and
who had always and still was at 75, been a gardener/farmer for her family. Her
son was Wilson’s interpreter and also contributed some drawings to illustrate
points of his mother’s conversation. The
interview was conducted over several years actually. When Wilson’s book was first published it was
called Agriculture of the Hidatsa Indians,
An Indian Interpretation.
Wilson faithfully recorded Buffalo Bird Woman’s
recollections, using her words as well as they could be interpreted and for an
older book it is easy to read and quite fascinating. It is written in the story telling mode that many
Native Americans find easy to use, but it is all factual information. Buffalo Bird Woman is careful to remind
readers that this is how her family and she herself did things and sometimes
mentions how other families differed from hers.
The Hidatsa tribe Buffalo Bird Woman belonged to lived
at the headwaters of the Missouri river in the Minnesota-North Dakota area. The Hidatsa tribe’s agricultural practices
were probably pretty typical of Northeastern Native Americans. And in her early adulthood her tribe had
little influence from white settlers.
When Wilson interviewed her in her 70’s Buffalo Bird
Woman was still mentally sharp and physically active. Her thoughts were well organized and she was
very through in giving information. She
talks about each of the five crops they typically grew, corn, squash, beans,
sunflowers and tobacco in great detail from preparing the ground, to how they selected
good seed, to cultural practices to harvesting and even how they cooked the
crops.
I found the agricultural knowledge the native people
had to be amazing and I loved the humor and little insights into tribal
relations that she included in her story.
Besides gardening she told how certain tools were made- such as how they
made baskets from the scrotum of a buffalo.
The lifestyle was very rigorous for women, who did most of the
gardening, and it was sobering how much time and effort went into growing and
storing food in earlier times. However
Buffalo Bird Woman never complains about the work and seemed to enjoy gardening.
I was interested in the “watchers stages” that were a
part of every corn plot. When land was
cleared a tree was left near the center of the field and a platform was erected
4-5 feet off the ground on the shady side of it. When the corn was starting to ripen two
women, usually younger girls, would sit on the platform to guard the corn from
crows, horses and young boys. They sat
there all day until the crop was harvested. As they sat there they sang to the corn
frequently because it was thought that the corn grew better if it was sung
to. The girls often made up songs
teasing young men who hung around trying to court the “watchers”. Buffalo Bird Woman includes some of the songs
she remembers.
That Native Americans had separate varieties of corn
which they knew to grow in separate plots so they didn’t mix and that they knew
about allowing fields to rest and how to save the best of the crop for seed was
interesting. So was the fact that they
fenced their garden areas. I also found it fascinating that they didn’t
allow animal manure in their gardens.
Horses were allowed to graze in the corn fields after the ears were
harvested but any manure they left was picked up and thrown out of the garden.
If you are
interested in farming history or origins of American crops, or you enjoy
reading about Native American customs this book will give you much enjoyment. It includes some photos from the early 1900’s
and drawings. I bought mine as an
e-edition on Amazon ($2.99) but I understand a hard copy is available. It’s pretty inexpensive.
Brighten Your
Holiday Landscape with Holly
Holly is used
as a traditional decoration for Christmas, said to bring good luck to the
household. But holly is more than just a
Christmas decoration. Whether in its evergreen forms with thick, glossy green
leaves or in its deciduous form with branches outlined in glowing red berries,
hollies are wonderful winter accent plants.
No matter where you live you can probably grow some form of holly. And the good news is that holly is pretty
deer resistant.
There are over
600 species of holly, from many parts of the world. Several species have been widely grown in
gardens for hundreds of years. You may
think of holly as having thick, dark green, glossy leaves that remain green all
winter. Others of you may know a holly
that you call Possumhaw or Winterberry, which lose their leaves in the winter
to display branches lined with beautiful berries all winter.
Hollies may be
widely divided into groups, English Hollies, Ilex aquifolium, American
Hollies Ilex opaca, Blue holly, Ilex meservae, Chinese Holly, Ilex
cornuta, Japanese Holly, Ilex crenata, PossumHaw, Ilex decidua and
Winterberry Holly, Ilex verticillata.
There are other species grown for ornamental use and each of the
above species has numerous named varieties.
Hollies species are also crossed to provide some ornamental hybrids.
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| Holly. |
Hollies vary in
size from small shrubs to large trees. The shape of the leaves also
varies. Many evergreen species have
toothed leaves, with a spine at the end of each tooth. Some however, have smooth, nearly oval
leaves. Most evergreen Holly leaves are
thick and glossy green. There are some
variegated varieties. Hollies that drop
their leaves in winter generally have long, oval leaves with smooth margins.
All hollies
have one interesting feature. Male and
female flowers are born on separate plants.
To get those beautiful berries you will need at least one male plant for
every 10 or so females. Only female
plants have berries. Pay attention to
catalog descriptions or label information, which tells you what type of male
plant you need for each female you buy.
Blue hollies are needed to pollinate Blue Hollies and Possumhaws are
needed to pollinate Possumhaws and so on.
Even within a group some plants will be better mates for each other.
The holly
flowers are small and whitish. They have
a sweet scent that attracts bees and other insects to do the pollinating. You can tell male flowers if you look inside
the flower and see yellow pollen. Female
flowers already have a round, green swelling at the base of the pistil that becomes
the berry. Holly plants may not flower
for several years after planting so it’s important to label the males so you
will know if a male dies and you need to replace it.
Most holly
berries will be red or black, but there are orange, yellow, coral, pink, blue
and white berried varieties on the market.
Some people are not interested in the berries, only the evergreen
foliage and for them there is no need to worry about male and female plants. There are a few varieties of hollies that
will produce berries without a male. Birds like holly berries later in the
winter, after they have been frozen several times. This allows you to get a good winter show and
still feed the birds. Birds also like to
shelter in evergreen hollies during the winter.
What holly
needs
Both deciduous
and evergreen hollies prefer slightly acidic soil but can be grown in more
alkaline soils with the right fertilizers.
They like rich well, drained soil in full sun, although in the south
light shade is fine. The Winterberry
group will stand damp areas, although it will also do well in average garden
conditions. Evergreen hollies like some
protection from winter winds, at least while they are young.
The evergreen
hollies are slow growing, the deciduous much faster. In the spring both benefit
from some acidic fertilizer. Cottonseed
meal, pine needle and other acidic organic mulches are good. Keep holly watered during dry spells.
Hollies vary as
to hardiness; the Winterberries and American Holly are probably the cold hardiest. Check the zone hardiness of any variety that
you buy. Some forms of holly are
considered to be invasive, spreading by the berries.
Choosing
Varieties
This list will
highlight some varieties of each group.
In the Winterberry group, [deciduous], ‘Berry Heavy’ has tons of
orange-red berries. ‘Winter Red’ has
bright red berries. ‘Red Sprite’ is a smaller size with red fruit. ‘Winter
Gold’ has yellow-orange fruit. ’Jim Dandy’ is a good male pollinator. In the Possumhaw group, [deciduous], ’Sentry’
has a columnar shape and red berries,
‘Council Fire’ has orange red berries, ‘Red Escort’ is a good
pollinator. In the blue holly group,
[evergreen], ‘Blue Girl’ is well known, ‘Blue Princess’ has red berries,
blue-green foliage, “Castle Spire’ is a narrow upright, ‘Blue Stallion’ is a good pollinator.
In the American
hollies [evergreen] ‘Canary’ has bright yellow berries, ‘Carnival’ has
orange-red fruit and is faster growing, ‘David Leach’ is a male
pollinator. English Hollies,
[evergreen], include ‘Moonlight’ whose evergreen leaves are variegated with
golden yellow, ‘Pinto’ which has leaves splashed with white, ‘Pixie’ which has
small leaves giving it a fine texture, ‘Beautyspra’has bright red berries and
good foliage for cutting and ‘Big Bull’ is a good pollinator.
Japanese
hollies, [evergreen], are best known for ‘Sky Pencil’ which has small leaves
and a narrow, columnar shape ‘Golden Gem’ has small golden leaves in a mounding
form. Chinese hollies, [evergreen], include ‘Berries Jubilee’ abundant bright
red berries, dome shaped shrub and ‘O.Spring’ which is a compact bush with
gray-green foliage that has yellow margins.
All
parts of holly are mildly poisonous and will cause vomiting and diarrhea if
ingested
Keep
an eye on the weather tonight and be prepared.
Kim Willis
“He who has a garden and
a library wants for nothing” ― Cicero
More Information
Smart
winter protection for trees and shrubs
Protect your landscape plants from
Old Man Winter by following these tips.
Posted on November 21, 2014 by Diane
Brown, Michigan State University Extension
After last year’s devastating winter, people may be
wondering what they should do to protect their landscape plants this winter.
Here are some points to consider:
Keep soil evenly moist throughout the growing season.
Moist soils will hold more heat than dry soils and are less subject to frost
penetration than dry soils. Keeping plants sufficiently watered throughout the
growing season will result in better root growth and healthier plants going
into winter. Even if plants are well-established, be sure to give them a good
drink of water in late fall before the ground freezes and maintain a 3-inch
layer of organic mulch around the trees or shrubs. Additional mulch through the
winter (another 1-3 inches) for recently planted trees and shrubs can help
encourage root growth in fall and reduce root injury from frost penetration
into the ground. Avoid placing mulch directly against the trunk, and remove the
extra mulch layer in spring when growth resumes.
Location, location, location. Plant marginally hardy
plants in protected locations in your landscape. Avoid planting in areas that
receive heavy loads of deicing salts. When shoveling salty snow, avoid piling
it around landscape plants where it will accumulate and be absorbed by roots. A
well-constructed burlap screen (see below) can help protect plants subject to
salt spray from passing traffic. Fix downspouts that leak and clean gutters of
leaves before winter sets in. Plants beneath these areas can be damaged by
heavy deposits of ice.
Winter desiccation. Winter sun and wind causes the
foliage of evergreen foliage to lose moisture that is not replaced while the
roots are frozen. Some plants are more susceptible than others including
evergreens with short needles, such as Alberta and Serbian spruce, hemlock, yew
and arborvitae, and broadleaf evergreens, such as boxwood and rhododendrons.
The sides of plants exposed to wind, along with the sides most exposed to sun (typically
the south and southwest) are most subject to winter injury of this type.
Directions for building a sturdy windscreen can be found in “Build a better
windscreen for your evergreens this winter” by Michigan State University
Extension.
A summary of directions for creating a windscreen
follows: Use posts designed for temporary electric fencing of livestock to form
the supports for the screen. Install the posts in October before the ground
freezes. Install the stakes far enough away from the plant that they do not
touch. The best choice of stakes is the slender posts used for temporary
electric fencing for livestock. At least four posts per plant are needed.
Surround the posts with a cylinder of chicken wire, hardware screening, welded
or woven wire farm fencing. Overlap slightly and wire the ends together. Pick a
calm day in November or December to add the layer of burlap. It should also
overlap. Secure the burlap to the fence with wire bag ties or wire twist ties.
Place them high, low and in between. Make sure the top is open and the bottom
burlap is snuggled into the mulch for more stability.
The windscreen can remain in place until early to
mid-March. Posts can remain until the ground thaws. This windscreen also helps
prevent animal damage, especially if the wire is hardware screening. When this
wire is pushed into the ground, it deters entry by voles and rabbits. If deer
are a problem, crisscross wire or heavy string over the top of the cylinder so
deer can’t lean in and chew the tops of plants.
Injury to thin-barked trees. Sunscald, sometimes
referred to as southwest injury, can occur on cold, sunny, winter days. Bark
heats up to the point that cambial activity resumes, then the temperature of
the bark drops rapidly when the sun is blocked by a cloud, or when it drops
behind a barrier such as a hill. The quick drop in temperature kills the active
tissue. To prevent sunscald, wrap the trunk with a commercial tree wrap,
plastic tree guards, or use white latex paint to reflect the sun and keep the
bark at a more constant temperature. If using tree wrap, put it on in the fall
and remove it in the spring after the last frost.
Leaving tree wrap on year-round is not recommended as
it provides a good location for certain trunk boring insects to hide and cause
damage. Newly planted trees should be wrapped for at least two winters and
thin-barked species up to five winters or more. Areas of the trunk damaged by
sun scald should be carefully trimmed back to live tissue with a sharp knife,
following the general shape of the wound, rounding off any sharp corners to
facilitate callusing of the wound.
Frost cracks may also occur when the south or west side
of a tree is heated by the sun. The bark and inner wood expands when warmed by
winter sunlight. Once the sun sets or is hidden by clouds, temperatures of the
bark drop quickly, causing the bark to shrink. It takes longer for the inner
wood to contract. The unequal shrinkage between the bark and the inner wood
causes the bark and the wood directly beneath it to split. Once the cracks have
occurred there is little that can be done.
While it can be worth the time and effort to protect a
few specimen plants in the landscape, it’s better to have mostly plantings that
can survive without extra pampering. Take the time to make sure that plants in
your landscape have been installed in the right location, and you will have
fewer worries about winter protection. If the same plants prove troublesome
year after year, it might be worthwhile to either find then a new home in your
landscape where less protection will be required, or replace them all together.
This article was published by Michigan State University
Extension.
Events, classes and other offerings
Please let me know if there is any event or class that
you would like to share with other gardeners.
These events are primarily in Michigan but if you are a reader from
outside of Michigan and want to post an event I’ll be glad to do it.
Master Gardeners if you belong to an association that
approves your hours please check with that association before assuming a class
or work day will count as credit.
Do you have plants or seeds you would like to swap or
share? Post them here by emailing me.
I have several free
roosters, bantam and full sized if anyone is interested. Also free 5 male Muscovy ducks, young, mostly
black feathered. Excellent eating,
less greasy than other duck- taste like beef.
Or great for decorating your pond. Kimwillis151@gmail.com
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Note to readers- Garden classes will be less frequent during the next few
months.
MSU offered a variety of on line
seminars for those who were interested in beginning farming topics of various
types. Some of those are now available
free to watch at the address below.
Gardeners may be interested in topics like organic pest control. Get the list of topics and links here.
New- “Owl
Prowl” Dec. 6, 2014, 6 p.m. to 8:30
p.m., Maybury State Park,
49775 8 Mile Road, Northville, Mi.
A
naturalist will take you on a 30- to 45-minute walk along the woods. Owls will
be called as you listen closely to see if they respond. After the hike, stick
around for s’mores by the fire.
Meet at the
Concession Building, which is located off the 8 Mile Road entrance west of
Beck. Wear comfortable shoes and dress
for the weather. Event is held rain or shine. Bring something to drink, a
roasting stick if you have one and a flashlight or miner’s cap.
Free,
Registration is required. Call (248) 349-8390 or visit www.friendsofmaybury.org
to register. A recreation passport is required to enter the park.
New-
Meijer Gardens’ 20th annual “Christmas and Holiday Traditions Around The World”, Now through January 4,
2015, 1000 E. Beltline Ave. NE in Grand Rapids, Mi.
This year’s holiday exhibits will include New Year
traditions from Japan, Korea, Vietnam and China, including the Japanese
kadomatsu, or gate pine. This is a display of pine, bamboo and plum blossoms.
There will also be a display from Ghana that includes brilliantly woven kente
and printed adinkra cloths.
There will also be more than 40 international trees and
displays, a Railway Garden that features model trains running through four
indoor garden spaces and more than 30 miniature buildings representing Grand
Rapids landmarks.
Admission is $12 for adults, $9 for students and
seniors, $6 for ages 5-13, $4 for ages 3-4 and free for museum members and kids
2 and younger. Check out the entire schedule of holiday events at www.meijergardens.org.
Capital Area Master
Gardeners - Mixing It Up Garden
symposium - January 31, 2015, 8:15-4 pm.
MSU Plant and Soil Sciences Building ,1066 Bogue Street
East Lansing, MI.
This symposium features a variety of
garden classes to lighten the winter blahs.
Registration fee includes lunch.
A garden marketplace will be available for shoppers. Fees are $35 for local
club members, $45 for other Master Gardeners, $55 for all others.
To get a description of classes and
register online go to: https://mgacac.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/brochure2014_11-14.pdf
Michigan Great Lakes Expo December
9-11, 2014- Devos Place Conference Center/ Amway Grand Plaza Hotel, Grand
Rapids, Michigan
This annual
conference is for fruit and vegetable growers and the greenhouse industry but
it is open to anyone who wishes to attend and there are numerous educational
classes, several bus tours, lots of educational booths and more than 400
vendors. Many home gardeners enjoy
attending as well as those contemplating or operating a farm market, greenhouse
or nursery business.
Pre-registering for
the event by Nov. 20 will save you about $20 per person. It’s $75 for the 3 day admission with several
discounts also being available for spouses, employees, members of certain
groups etc. It will be $95 if you pay at
the door. Children under 18 are
free. There is also a one day admission
for Thursday, Dec 11 of $40. Admission
includes all educational sessions and exhibits but does not include bus tours
and the various luncheons and dinners.
You can get the brochure
describing the educational events and tours plus more information and register
on line at this link: http://www.glexpo.com/images/2014/GL_Expo_Brochure.pdf
You can also call 734-677-0503
for more information.
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