Garden Friends Annual Meeting and Lecture

"Life on the Edge:
Tough Plants for Tough Places"

Kelly Norris - Horticulturist
Author of Iowa Gardener's Travel Guide

Sponsored by UNL Garden Friends

Sunday, April 1st 2012

2:00-4:30 pm
UNL City Campus Union Auditorium
14th & R Streets
$5 Admission
Free to UNL Garden Friends Members

Refreshments following lecture

Parking available along R Street and
Q Place Parking Garage at 11th & Q

This year our speaker will be Kelly D. Norris, a 24-year-old horticulturist, plant breeder, and plantsman from Iowa. He is the award-winning author of three books including The Iowa Gardener's Travel Guide, the first travel guide to Iowa's public gardens and nurseries, and Cultivating the Rainbow: A Guide to Bearded Irises for Beginners and Enthusiasts due out May 2012 from Timber Press, and a book he is currently writing, Dig This--a Style Guide to Kickass Gardening.

As a speaker he has garnered national acclaim for his high-energy presentations, leading many to name him as one of the rising stars of American horticulture. Please join to hear Kelly's presentation "Life on the Edge: Tough Plants for Tough Places". In this tale from the road, Kelly wears two hats-that of a plant ecologist and a horticulturist-while sharing with the audience a palette of garden-worthy plants from harsh environments across the U.S.

Learn about how plants respond to their environment and how you can translate that into success in your own garden, even if you have less-than-glamorous soil. Kelly has recently explored northeastern Nebraska and southwestern South Dakota, so this lecture should resonate with all of us. A reception and opportunity to meet Kelly will take place after the lecture.

Admission is $5. UNL Garden Friends members are admitted free of charge. Garden Friends may renew memberships at the event prior to the lecture. Membership information is available here.