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Presented by Marty Arnold, author and past River City Chapter President.6:30–8:00 pm (EDT)
Kroc Center, 2500 Division Ave S, Grand Rapids, MI, 49507
Public Welcome • Free Event
This presentation will cover the following topics:
• Weird and wonderful plant names and how they came to be
• Don’t try this at home—confessions of a self-taught gardener
• What weeds can tell you
• Oh, deer! when Bambi gets hungry
• Plan B exotics!
• Why have a “PR garden”?
• Your back (and keeping it healthy)
• The best tools of the trade
• What grew in your yard in 1826 (Natural Features Inventory)
• Views from my soapbox
• Foraging
Marty Arnold served as president of WORC and on the national board of Wild Ones. She is currently the chapter’s plant sale chair. Major interests are writing fiction and re-wilding her yard back to the savanna and woodland it once was. Her second novel, Charlotte’s Crossing, is a love story set in West Michigan and a plea to rethink how we landscape and garden today.
Marty’s book will be for sale at the event.
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GR Kroc Center, Grand Rapids, United States
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