Spring Workshop Series: Understanding and Caring for Your Landscape

The Marple Tree Commission and the Marple Public Library will present a FREE Spring Workshop Series: Yardening: Understanding and Caring for Your Landscape. 

• What You Always Wanted to Know about Managing Your Yard and Were Afraid to Ask will be held March 6th. Learn how to creat a wildlife habitat, the difference between native and non-native plants and the element that are inmportant to any yard.

• On March 20th, All about Woody Plants: The Trees and Shrubs in Your Yard.  Learn how to choose the right woody plants for you, how to avoid making common planting mistakes and how to care for your trees and shrubs. 

• The Truth About Perennials will be offered April 3rd.  Learn the difference between perennials and annuals, how to choose and casrd for you perennials and why perennials are important.

• On April 17th, Boost You Curb Appeal with annuals.  Learn how to add color to you landscape, choose and care for annuals, 20 difference uses for annuals and interesting ways to use a container planting.

Teachers are: Rick Ray, taught horticulture at Temple and Delaware Valley College and currently teaches a course at the Arboretum Scholl of the Barnes Foundations, Liz Ball hoticultural writer, photographer and teacher, Ray Murphy, professional gardener at Nemors Mansion Gardens in Wilmington Delaware and BJ Hensil, horticultural instructor at Upper Darby High School and owner of Exquisit Landscapes.