FALL NATIVE GARDEN COLOR TOUR
The El Paso Native Plant Society is hosting a tour of six native plant gardens bursting with fall color on Sunday, Oct. 19, from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. The gardens are all in the Mission Hills – Kern Place area. Admission is $5.00 per person or $8:00 per family for all six gardens. Tickets may be purchased at any garden and validated at others on the tour.
Simultaneously, gardening talks will be offered from 1:00 to 3:30 at the Keystone Heritage Park 4200 Doniphan. Garden tour tickets will be honored for admission to Keystone.
Tour addresses are 404 and 408 Kenyon Joyce Lane, 4120 Berkshire, 803 and 805 Baltimore, and 2932 Piedmont. For additional information, call 240-7414 or 549-3674.
Presentations at Keystone are:
1:00 Fall Gardening Jumpstarts Spring
Elizabeth Maline, Master Gardener
1:30 Gardening With Succulents
Cheryl Garing, Horticulturist
2:00 Ethical Acquisition of Native Plants
Virginia Morris, Master Gardener
2::30 Taking the Zero out of Xeriscaping
Jim Hastings, Master Gardener Intern
3:00 Seed Collection and Storage
John White, Assistant Curator, Chihuahuan Desert Garden, UTEP
