April Calendar of Triangle Gardening Programs

Sarah P. Duke Gardens and the JC Raulston Arboretum are holding their
spring plant sales in early April.

Sarah P. Duke Gardens
420 Anderson St., Durham, NC.
http://gardens.duke.edu/events 
Please call 919-668-1707 to register.

Spring Plant Sale: Member Preview Sale

Friday, April 1, 2016, 4:00 - 6:00 PM
 

Spring Plant Sale

Saturday, April 2, 2016, 8:00 - 12:00 PM

 

Exploration Station: Free drop-in activities for all

Satursday, April 2, 2016, 1:00 - 4:00 PM

The Piedmont Sun: Friend or Foe in the Garden? 

Thursday, April 7, 2016, 6:30 - 8:00 PM

Exploration Station: Free drop-in activities for all

Saturday, April 9, 2016, 1:00 - 4:00 PM

   

I Need a Plan: Create a Pollinator Garden

Tuesday, April 19, 2016, 6:30 - 9:00 PM

Course meets for 2 sessions

 

Soil 

Saturday, April 23, 2016, 9:30 - 12:30 PM

 

Plant Propagation: Dividing a Plant

Tuesday, April 26, 2016, 10:30 - 12:00 PM

Horton Grove: Triangle Land Conservancy

Thursday, April 28, 2016, 6:30 - 8:30 PM

 

Cooking from the Garden: Appetizers

Saturday, April 30, 2016, 9:30 - 11:30 AM

Exploration Station: Free drop-in activities for all 

Saturday, April 30, 2016, 1:00 - 4:00 PM
 

JC Raulston Arboretum

Ruby C. McSwain Education Center, JC Raulston Arboretum
4415 Beryl Road, Raleigh, NC.
http://jcra.ncsu.edu

Friday, April 1

16th Annual Birdhouse Competition, Part of Raulston Blooms!
10:00 am–6:00 pm

JC Raulston Arboretum Plant Sale Plant List Available
4:00 pm–7:00 pm
Members Only Preview Sale

Saturday, April 2
Raulston Blooms! A Garden Festival for All Ages

9:00 am

16th Annual Birdhouse Competition
Part of Raulston Blooms!
9:00 am–4:00 pm

JC Raulston Arboretum Plant Sale
Plant List Available
Part of Raulston Blooms!
9:00 am–4:00 pm

Tuesday, April 5
Plantsmen's Tour:  "40th Anniversary Tour—JCRA National Collections"

Mark Weathington, Director
1:00 pm        

Building a Permaculture Garden
Registration Closed—Wait List Started
Will Hooker, Permaculture Designer and Teacher, Registered Landscape Architect, and Emeritus Professor, Department of Horticulture Science, NC State University
6:30 pm

 

Vegetable Gardening: From Site Selection to Harvest (Course)

Wednesdays, April 6–May 18, 2016 – 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm and Saturday, May 21, 2016 – 9:00 am to 11:00 am

Bryce Lane, Alumni Distinguished Undergraduate Professor Emeritus and Lecturer Emeritus, Department of Horticultural Science, NC State University

Friends of the Arboretum Lecture:  "Don't You Need More Pricks in Your Garden—Developing New Hardy Winter-hardy, Drought-tolerant Agaves for the Garden"
7:30 pm Thursday, April 14

Tony Avent, Plant Delights Nursery and Juniper Level Botanic Garden

 

North American Rock Garden Society (Piedmont Chapter) Lecture: "Gardening for the Future: My Forever Garden"

Saturday, April 16, 10:00 am 
Helen Yoest, Gardening with Confidence

Day Tripping to Prairie Ridge
Tuesday, April 19, 8:40 am

Charles Yelton, Director, Prairie Ridge

Triangle Bonsai Expo
Saturday-Sunday, April 23-24, 11:00 am–5:00 pm

Hosted by the Triangle Bonsai Society in Cooperation with the JC Raulston Arboretum

 

Gardening Adventures with Extension Master Gardener Volunteers:  "Aquatic Plants for Water Gardens"
Monday, April 25, 10:00 am
Marilyn Grolitzer, Wake County Extension Master Gardener

North Carolina Botanical Gardens 

100 Old Mason Farm Road, Chapel Hill, NC.

http://reg.abcsignup.com/view/view_month.aspx?as=5&wp=184&aid=NCBG

Plant Communities of North Carolina
Tuesday, April 5,  9:00 - 12:00 PM

Coker Arboretum Spring Tour
Wednesday, April 6, 2:00 - 3:00 PM

LUNCHBOX Talk: The Biochemistry of Plant Fragrance
Thursday, April 7, 12:00 - 1:00 PM

Weeds 101 
Saturday, April 9, 10:00 - 12:00 PM

NCBG50: Past, Present and Future – A KICKOFF Event
Sunday, April 10, 2:00 - 3:30 PM

Piedmont Nature Trails Rededication
Tuesday, April 12, 2:00 - 4:00 PM

Honey Beehive Tour
Saturday, April 16, 1:00 - 2:00 PM

Local Deciduous Trees
Saturday, April 16 and  23, 1:30 - 4:30 PM.

Battle Park: The Old and the NEW
Sunday, April 17, 2:30 - 4:00 PM

Habitat Collections Walk
Saturday, April 23,10:00 - 11:00 PM

Sunday, April 24, 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM
Mercer Reeves Hubbard Herb Garden: Afternoon Tea and Lemon Thyme Cookies

Principles of Conservation and Biology
Tuesdays/Thursdays, April 26, 28, May 3, 5; 2:00 – 5:00pm

LUNCHBOX Talk: The UNC Herbarium – from the 19th Century into the 21st!
Thursday, April 28, 12:00 - 1:00 PM

Step into Spring 
Thursday, April 28, 6:30 PM- 8:30 PM
Prelude Party Chapel Hill Spring Garden Tour

Flowering Plant Families
Saturdays, April 30, May 7, 14, 21; 9:15 – 12:15

Durham County Cooperative Extension

"Ergonomics for Gardeners: how to help prevent the 'Oh, my aching (you name it) feeling.'"
Sunday, April 3,  3-4 p.m.
South Regional Library, 4505 S. Alston Avenue, Durham, North Carolina 27713
Classes are free. Registration is required.  Register online at the Durham County Library website durhamcountylibrary.org. Click on "Events" to find the full calendar of events. Go to the date of the class and sign up.  You can also call the Information Desk at South Regional Library to register: 919-560-7410919-560-7410.  

Gardening Adventures with Extension Master Gardener Volunteers:  "Aquatic Plants for Water Gardens"
Monday, April 25, 10:00 a.m.
Marilyn Grolitzer, Wake County Extension Master Gardener