September 2017
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Friday
1
Saturday
2
Monday
4
Wednesday
6
Thursday
7
Friday
8
Saturday
9
Project PLANTS Science Saturdays✽
9:00 am
Crepe Myrtle Pruning Class and Demonstration
"A Tale of Love, Murder, and Proper Pruning"
Basil Camu, Treecologist, Leaf & Limb
9:00 am
Monday
11
Becoming a Better Home Landscape Gardener
Bryce Lane, Alumni Distinguished Undergraduate Professor Emeritus and Lecturer Emeritus, Department of Horticultural Science, NC State University
6:30 pm
Tuesday
12
Thursday
14
Garden Buds✽
Fall Fun with Apples
10:30 am–12:00 pm
Friends of the Arboretum Lecture
"Green Infrastructure: Why Horticulture Is the Key to Cities of the Future and Where You Fit In"
Debbie Hamrick, Director Specialty Crops, North Carolina Farm Bureau
7:30 pm
Saturday
16
North American Rock Garden Society (Piedmont Chapter) Lecture
Cohosted by the JC Raulston Arboretum and the Piedmont Chapter of the North American Rock Garden Society
"Clematis and Other Vines for the Garden"
Adrienne Roethling, Paul J. Ciener Botanical Garden
10:00 am
Recreational Tree Climbing at the JCRA
Open to Youths and Adults
Patrick Brandt, Piedmont Tree Climbing
10:00 am
Recreational Tree Climbing at the JCRA
Open to Youths and Adults
Patrick Brandt, Piedmont Tree Climbing
11:00 am
Recreational Tree Climbing at the JCRA
Open to Youths and Adults
Patrick Brandt, Piedmont Tree Climbing
12:00 pm
Recreational Tree Climbing at the JCRA
Open to Youths and Adults
Patrick Brandt, Piedmont Tree Climbing
1:30 pm
Recreational Tree Climbing at the JCRA
Open to Youths and Adults
Patrick Brandt, Piedmont Tree Climbing
2:30 pm
Recreational Tree Climbing at the JCRA
Open to Youths and Adults
Patrick Brandt, Piedmont Tree Climbing
3:30 pm
Recreational Tree Climbing at the JCRA
Open to Youths and Adults
Patrick Brandt, Piedmont Tree Climbing
4:30 pm
Recreational Tree Climbing at the JCRA
Open to Youths and Adults
Patrick Brandt, Piedmont Tree Climbing
5:30 pm
Monday
18
Becoming a Better Home Landscape Gardener
Bryce Lane, Alumni Distinguished Undergraduate Professor Emeritus and Lecturer Emeritus, Department of Horticultural Science, NC State University
6:30 pm
Yoga in the Gardens
"Back to Basics—Vinyasa Flow"
Cecily Smith, Yogi
6:30 pm
Tuesday
19
Day Tripping to Pat McCracken's Garden and Camellia Forest's New Wendell Nursery
Almost Full
9:45 am
Thursday
21
Photography Walk
"Color"
Susan Bailey, Susan Bailey Photography
2:00 pm
Wake County 4-H✽
Wake County 4-H Junior Master Gardeners Club
6:00 pm
Friday
22
Landscape Architecture Lecture Series
Victor Stanley Lecture
James Hitchmough, Ph.D., Head, Department of Landscape, University of Scheffield, U.K.
6:00 pm
Saturday
23
Tour with James Hitchmough
Walk Ins Welcome
James Hitchmough, Ph.D., Head, Department of Landscape, University of Scheffield, U.K., and Mark Weathington, Director
10:00 am
Monday
25
Gardening Adventures with Extension Master Gardener Volunteers
Cohosted by the Extension Master Gardeners and the JC Raulston Arboretum
"Winter Flowering Plants"
Cindy Chappell, Wake County Extension Master Gardener
10:00 am
Take a Child Outside Week✽
Nature Paintings
10:00 am–12:00 pm
Becoming a Better Home Landscape Gardener
Bryce Lane, Alumni Distinguished Undergraduate Professor Emeritus and Lecturer Emeritus, Department of Horticultural Science, NC State University
6:30 pm
Yoga in the Gardens
"Back to Basics—Vinyasa Flow"
Cecily Smith, Yogi
6:30 pm
Wednesday
27
Take a Child Outside Week✽
Pond Dipping
10:00 am
Yoga in the Gardens
"Sunset Vinyasa Flow"
Cecily Smith, Yogi
6:30 pm
✽Denotes a children's program.