The MU Botanic Garden Presents: Off-Season Gardening

Winter Botany: Let Dick Munson, Ph.D., director of the MU Botanic Garden, guide you through a plant key and teach you basic plant terminology. Impress your friends with newfound plant knowledge and be able to identify trees even when they are leafless. "A Key to Missouri Trees in Winter" and other handouts are included in the registration fee. This class will be held from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. on March 13 in Memorial Union N214-215. The fee for the class is $10.00 for MU Botanic Garden members and $12 for non-members.

Basic Pruning Techniques: Horticulture is both a science and an art. Believe it or not, pruning embodies this concept as well as any horticultural practice. Let Scott Keith, supervisor of Landscape Services, give you hands-on demonstrations of pruning a small flowering tree, flowering shrubs and a hedge. Besides pruning basics-directing plant growth, making proper cuts and using the necessary equipment-you’ll learn how to shape a plant in an aesthetic sense and determine how much to remove. This class will be held from 10:00 to 11:30 a.m. on March 16 in Memorial Union N214-215. The fee for the class is $8 for MU Botanic Garden members and $10 for non-members.

Flowering Shrubs for Mid-Missouri: The University of Missouri-Columbia is a botanic garden filled with beautiful and unusual plants. Landscape Services’ David Massey, landscape gardener, will introduce you to the variety of flowering shrubs suitable for landscapes in mid-Missouri, nearly all of which can be found on campus. Learn which plants are the best for use in home gardens and expand your flowering shrub horizon with new and unusual varieties. This class will be held from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. on April 3 in Memorial Union S206. The fee for this class is $8 for MU Botanic Garden members and $10 for non-members.

Call 882-4240 today to register. Class sizes are limited.