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Botanical Garden and Arboretum

Garden Friends Annual Meeting and Lecture

Founding Members

Alice Abel
Catherine Angle
David E. Asche
Wilbur Dasenbrock
Kit Dimon
Susan Evnen
Michele Angle Farrar
Luann and Richard Finke
T.O. Haas
Ken Hake
James W. Hewitt
Linda Hillegass
Karl and Margaret Indriksons
Dianne W. Kennedy
Robert E. Knoll
Dottie Kuester
Suzie Lewis
Linda Mach
Monica Norby
Marilyn Paulson
Allison Petersen
Glenda Peterson
Hope Robb
Linda Rohman
William C. Smith
Kim Todd
Bryan Van Deun
D.B. Varner
JoAnn I. Weaver
Diane Wilson
Donna Woods
Joseph O. Young

Annual Meeting Speaker is Marcia Leeper
Sunday, April 3, 2011, 2:30-4:00 p.m.

Marcia Leeper

The UNL Garden Friends annual meeting and botanical lecture is scheduled for Sunday, April 3, 2011, 2:30-4:00 pm, City Campus Student Union, 14th & R Street. Our guest speaker will be Marcia Leeper, Corporate Gardener for August Home Publishing and Garden Gate Magazine, where her col- umn, "From the Test Garden" is published in every issue. She also designs and maintains the corporate and test gardens for August Home Publishing (Des Moines, IA) and helps provide photo opportunities for other Garden Gate articles.

The lecture, "Gardening in Containers and Other Small Spaces" will feature new and also tried and true Midwest-area planting selections and methods that have been featured in Garden Gate magazine. Copies of Garden Gate Magazine will be given free to the first 100 guests and other August home garden publications will be available at reduced prices to lecture attendees. Invite your friends to attend this “don’t miss” free 2011 spring garden event.

UNL Botanical Garden and Arboretum is an affiliate site of the
Nebraska Statewide Arboretum