Tree Keeper Training offered thru Keep Durham Beautiful

Love Trees? Come learn the basics of tree identification, siting, planting, pruning and pest control.

When: 1-5 p.m. on July 8, July 10, July 22,
July 24
Cost: $25 (scholarships available)
Note: Participants are expected to attend all sessions and complete 15 hours of volunteer tree care over the next 12 months.

For more information visit: TreesAcrossDurham.org
To Register- fill out this Registration Form: https://goo.gl/mXhYxI
or contact Megan Alise Carroll at (919) 560-7993 or mcarrol@dconc.gov

July Calendar of Triangle Gardening Programs

Sarah P. Duke Gardens
420 Anderson St., Durham, NC.

http://gardens.duke.edu/events.  

Please call 919-668-1707 to register.

Music in the Gardens: Laurelyn Dossett

Wednesday, July 1, 7-9 p.m.

 

Ciompi Quartet: Light and Shadow

Tuesday, July 7, 7:30-9 p.m.

  

Music in the Gardens: Alice Gerrard + Rayna Gellert

Wednesday, July 8, 7-9:00 p.m.

 

Herbal Spa for Young Women (ages 12-16) three course sessions 

Tuesday, July 14, 10 a.m. thru Thu, July 16, 3 p.m.

 

Music Maker Revue: Boo Hanks, John Dee Holeman, Ironing Board Sam & Williette Hinton

Wednesday, July 15, 7-9 p.m.

 

Durham Garden Forum Gardeners Fair
Tuesday, July 21, 6:30-8 p.m.

JC Raulston Arboretum

Ruby C. McSwain Education Center, JC Raulston Arboretum

4415 Beryl Road, Raleigh, NC.

http://jcra.ncsu.edu

 

Plantsmen's Tour: "Interns' Top Picks"
Tuesday, July 7, 9 a.m. and 6 p.m.

 

Drawing in Nature I: Botanical Illustration with Pencil and Pen
Preston Montague, Landscape Designer and Botanical Illustrator
Saturday, July 11, 9 a.m. and 1 p.m. 
   

Saturday, July 25

Hypertufa Trough Workshop
Beth Jimenez and Amelia Lane, Lasting Impressions and JCRA Volunteers
9 a.m.      

Drawing in Nature I: Botanical Illustration with Pencil and Pen
Preston Montague, Landscape Designer and Botanical Illustrator
9 a.m.        

Orchid Growers Day
Hosted by the Triangle Orchid Society in Cooperation with the JC Raulston Arboretum
9:30 a.m.        

Cast Concrete Leaf Birdbath Workshop
Beth Jimenez and Amelia Lane, JCRA Volunteers1 p.m.

 

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

Pollinator Habitat Restoration in NC Botanical Garden Nature Preserves 
Sunday, July 9, noon-1:00 p.m.

“Bee, I’m Expecting You” – a poetry reading
Sunday, July 19, 3-4 p.m.

Common Native Bees Slideshow and Garden Foray
Sunday, July 26, 2:30-4:30 p.m.

Emerald Ash Borer found in the Triangle, Wake Co. under quarantine

RALEIGH – Evidence of EAB was found by the N.C. Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services staff in woods near the Raleigh-Durham International Airport.
 
“This brings the total counties in the state under EAB quarantine rules to seven, with detections in Granville, Person, Vance and Warren counties in 2013 and Wayne County earlier this year,” Troxler said. “We continue to monitor other counties for this highly destructive pest by trapping areas with ash trees. If you see the purple, triangle-shaped traps, please do not disturb them.”
 
The beetle was first detected in the United States in Michigan in 2002. It is responsible for the death or decline of tens of millions of ash trees across the country.
 
Under the state quarantine, all hardwood firewood and plants and plant parts of the ash tree -- including living, dead, cut or fallen, green lumber, stumps, roots, branches and composted and uncomposted chips -- cannot be moved outside the county.

The Plant Industry Division and the N.C. Forest Service are working in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service.
 
Symptoms of emerald ash borer in ash trees include a general decline in the appearance of the tree, such as thinning from the top down and loss of leaves. Clumps of shoots, also known as epicormic sprouts, emerging from the trunk of the tree and increased woodpecker activity are other symptoms. The emerald ash borer is not the only pest that can cause these.
 
Emerald ash borers overwinter as larvae. The adult beetle is one-fourth to a half-inch long and is slender and metallic green. When the adults emerge from a tree, they leave behind a D-shaped exit hole. The larvae can also create serpentine tunneling marks, known as feeding galleries, which are found under the bark of the infested trees.
 
For entire news release, please see link: http://www.ncagr.gov/paffairs/release/2015/6-16WakeEAB.htm

Farm to Table: Farm Fresh Bouquets

Remember to source local flowers and vegetables at the Durham Farmers Markets!
Floral bouquets by Ladybug Farm and MamaSpring at the South Durham Farmers Market.