Gardening
Resources
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A group of landscape designers
in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area providing landscape design and
services.
http://www.Brooksidegardens.org 301-962-1400
offers
classes, workshops, volunteer opportunities, trips. brochures of other public
gardens at the information desk in the Visitors Center.
Spring
Lecture Series: a 24-page guide to programs at Brookside
Gardens - in gorgeous living color:
http://www.mc-mncppc.org/Parks/brookside/publications/Xperience_Sp05B.pdf
P.O. Box 4877
Silver Spring MD 20914
monthly meetings the last Tuesday at White Oak
Library
includes
C & O Canal and Rock Creek.
“The
Internet’s Garden Community”
Silver
Spring Garden Club
meets
3rd Monday at Brookside
guest
speaker with slides or flora
202-245-2726
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Joel
Lerner Gardening column in
Saturday's Wash. Post
Books
and classes.
- Free gardening seminars
at Behnke's (Beltsville location; my
favorite title is "Invasive Plants: Little Crop of Horrors") http://www.behnkes.com/page.php?group_page_id=441
- "Garden Gurus" on the radio - Listen to the Behnke Garden Gurus, Saturdays from 9 to 11 AM
on 1160 WMET (AM radio). Call in, toll-free, with your garden questions:
1-866-369-1160.
- Web site of the American
Plant Food Company has lots of good info at http://www.americanplantfood.com/.
-
Have some
favorites of your own? Let me know
More
information
on Maryland Native Plant Society
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CHAPTER CONTACTS: For more
details visit the Chapters page of http://mdflora.org.
GREATER BALTIMORE CHAPTER
MEETING
The Greater Baltimore Chapter
is looking for interested members to help plan the 2005 Fall Conference For
more information, contact Ann Lundy at 410-366-9365 or aplundy@attglobal.net.
Join them on a spring hike
on April 16
EASTERN SHORE CHAPTER
Contact Sylvan Kaufman, 410-634-2847 x13 or skaufman@intercom.net.
They're offering a spring
wildflowers hike--see the April 10 field trip
SOUTHERN MARYLAND CHAPTER
Contact: Carolyn Fulton cofulton@chesapeake.net
or 301-885-6384.
There are three field trips
sponsored by the Southern MD Chapter: April 10; May 1; and May 14
WASHINGTON DC CHAPTER
Contact: Mary Pat Rowan blair-rowan@starpower.net
or 202-526-8821.
The Civil War Fort hikes
continue--see the April 3 field trip.
CATOCTIN CHAPTER Contact Joe
Metzger 410-775-7737.
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UPCOMING EVENTS Mark these
upcoming events on your calendar. Check the web site mdflora.org for details, directions, and
other activities being offered this season.
HABITAT STEWARDSHIP-INVASIVE
REMOVAL PROJECTS
Fort Meade Army
Installation, Anne Arundel County
Dates: Second Saturdays,
monthly ; 10:00 am Contact: Don Marquardt, 301-677-9185 or email marquardtd@emhl.ftmeade.army.mil.
Greenbelt National Park, Prince George's
County
Dates: First Saturdays,
monthly; Meet at 11:00 am in the Sweetgum Picnic
Area.
Carpool Info: We have
changed the carpool from the Student Union to meet behind the Sierra Club office
behind the College Park Shopping Center (the upper lot behind the Wawa & Vertigo books) at 10:30 am.
Bring: Lunch, drink, and
appropriate clothing for weather. Contact: For any questions and information
about upcoming events, contact Tom Crone, 301-864-1959 or tomnjan@erols.com; Kate Odell, kateo@wam.umd.edu or 301-474-5395; or
Laurel Imlay, 301-864-1009(h) or 301-277-7111(w). More info: www.nps.gov/gree/
Myrtle
Point Park, St. Mary's County. More info: St. Mary's County Recreation,
Parks, and Community Services, Friends of Myrtle Point Park.
Northwest Branch of the Anacostia, Montgomery County
Dates: Saturdays, March 19,
2005, and April 16, 2005; 10:00 am – 1:00 or 2:00pm
Bring: Water and gloves.
Vegetarian lunch provided. Contact: Jane Osburn,
301-754-1564, or jgosburn@earthlink.net.
Ruth Swann Park and
Chapman's Forest, Charles County
Dates: First Sundays,
monthly; 10:00 am – 4:00 pm Carpool Info: Meet at Sierra Club Md. Chapter
office at 9:00 am; return 5:00 pm. Call Laurel Imlay at 301-277-7111.
Bring: Gloves, lunch, and
water. Durable long sleeves and pants recommended. Contact: Marc Imlay,
301-283-0808. RSVP is welcome. More info: www.chapmanforest.org.
WEED WARRIORS WANTED
The Maryland-National
Capital Park and Planning Commission's (M-NCPPC) Forest Ecologist is assembling
a team of volunteers (Weed Warriors) to monitor and remove non-native invasive
plant species in Montgomery County Parks, and we need your help! As a Weed Warrior volunteer, you will receive
a short training session from the Forest Ecologist in the identification of,
removal and control techniques for non-native invasive plants. Weed Warriors can then work at their own pace
and choose a schedule that best suits them.
Many current Weed Warriors live near a M-NCPPC Stream Valley Park or
Regional Park and do their volunteer work while walking their dogs or taking an
occasional hike through their neighborhood park. Whether you choose to work individually or in
a group, your efforts will contribute to the control of non-native vegetation
in the 28,000 acres of Montgomery County parkland.
Contact: Carole Bergmann,
M-NCPPC Forest Ecologist, at 301-949-2818 for more info or to sign up.