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Home Greenhouses Topic Of First Twilight Garden Series Class
Thursday, May 22, 1997
FORT COLLINS--If you"ve ever dreamed of extending your
growing season with a home greenhouse, Colorado State University
Cooperative Extension has just the class for you.
"Residential Greenhouses: A Fun Way to Extend Your Season"
is the topic of the first class in the successful Twilight Garden
Series, to be held from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. June 11 at Colorado
State's W.D. Holley Plant Environmental Research Center, 630 W.
Lake St.
The class will be held outdoors and will feature:
* Shane Smith, director and co-founder of the Cheyenne
Botanic Garden, author of "Greenhouse Gardener's Companion--
Growing Food and Flowers in Your Sunspace," and gardening
columnist for the Wyoming Tribune Eagle;
* Ken Goldsberry, Colorado State horticulture professor
emeritus and co-owner of Donath Lake Farm Nursery and Greenhouse,
discussing "What you need to know to maintain a proper greenhouse
environment"; and
* a demonstration and viewing of a residential greenhouse by
Nexus Residential Greenhouses. Additional information provided by
Donath Lake Farm Nursery and Greenhouse and Fort Collins Nursery.
The Twilight Garden Series will continue July 2 with a class
on landscape design and conclude Aug. 2 with a program on
maintaining a healthy garden.
The series is sponsored by Colorado State Cooperative
Extension, Colorado State department of horticulture and
landscape architecture, the City of Fort Collins Community
Horticultural Program and the Northern Chapter of Associate
Landscape Contractors of Colorado.
The $5 registration fee covers all three sessions. For
information, call Fort Collins CityLine at 493-2489, ext. 268.
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