April Calendar of Triangle Gardening Programs



The Fourth Annual Spring Egg Hunt at the
JC Raulston Arboretum is running seven days through April 5. 

Sarah P. Duke Gardens

420 Anderson St., Durham, NC. http://gardens.duke.edu/events.  

Please call 919-668-1707 to register.

Zoom In: Magnolias

Thursday, April 2, 5:30 PM to 7:00 PM

 

This Urban Planet

Thursday, April 2, 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM

 

Gardening for Families

Tuesday, April 7, 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM

Course meets for 6 sessions

 

I Need a Plan: Create a Pollinator Garden

Tuesday, April 7, 6:30 PM to 9:00 PM

Course meets for 2 sessions

 

Plants of Distinction: The Terraces Preview

Thursday, April 16, 2:30 PM to 4:00 PM

Caring for Your Landscape

Saturday, April 18, 9:30 AM to 11:30 AM

Course meets for 3 sessions

 

Japanese Tea Gathering

Saturday, April 18, 10:45 AM to noon, and 1-2:15 PM

Plant Propagation: Dividing a Plant 

Tuesday, April 21, 10:30 AM to 12:00 PM




Sarah P. Duke's letter donating $20,000 for a public garden to be built in her name. Image courtesy of Duke University Archives.

The Women of Duke Gardens
Tuesday, April 21, 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM

Durham Garden Forum: Small Fruits for the Home Garden

Tuesday, April 21, 2015, 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM

Create a Culinary Herb Garden 

Tuesday, April 21, 6:30 PM to 9:00 PM

Course meets for 2 sessions

 

Spring Binge: A Big Bloomers Bus Trip

Wednesday, April 22, 8:30 AM to 1:30 PM

 

Taimi Anderson Lecture: The Artful Garden

Thursday, April 23, 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM

 

Zoom In: The Amazing Non-flowering Plants

Thursday, April 30, 5:30 PM to 7:00 PM

 

Extension Gardener Series: Made in the Shade

Thursday, April 30, 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM

JC Raulston Arboretum

Ruby C. McSwain Education Center, JC Raulston Arboretum
4415 Beryl Road, Raleigh, NC.http://jcra.ncsu.edu

Fourth Annual Spring Egg Hunt
Monday, March 30 - Friday, April 3, 10:00 am–3:00 pm
Saturday, April 4, 2015 – 10:00 am–2:00 pm
Sunday, April 5, 2015 – 1:00 pm–4:00 pm

Plantsmen's Tour:  "The JCRA's National Collections"
Tuesday, April 7, 1:00 pm
Mark Weathington, Director

Friends of the Arboretum Lecture:  "In Search of Overlooked and Exceptional Native Plants"
Thursday, April 9, 7:30 pm
Tony Avent, Plant Delights Nursery at Juniper Level Botanic Garden

Raulston Blooms!
A Garden Festival for All Ages
April 10-11, 9:00 am–4:00 pm

North American Rock Garden Society (Piedmont Chapter) Lecture : "Plant Hunting in Northern Vietnam"
Saturday, April 18, 10:00 am
Sponsored by the Piedmont Chapter of the North American Rock Garden Society in Cooperation with the JC Raulston Arboretum
Andrew Bunting, The Scott Arboretum of Swarthmore College 

 

"Blight Resistance Chestnut Trees Grace the Coker Arboretum"
will be held on Friday, April 24, at the NC Botanical Gardens.

North Carolina Botanical Gardens

100 Old Mason Farm Road, Chapel Hill, NC.
http://reg.abcsignup.com/view/view_month.aspx?as=5&wp=184&aid=NCBG

LUNCHBOX Series: The Biochemistry of Spring
Wednesday, April 8, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

Local Deciduous Trees
Saturdays, April 11 and 18; 9:30am–12:30pm

Book Review: Teaching the Trees
Saturday, April 11,  2:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Teaching the Trees: Lessons from the Forest
Sunday, April 12,  2:30 PM - 3:30 PM

Celebrating Trees: A Woodwind Concert
Sunday, April 12, 4:15 PM - 5:00 PM

Home Landscape Design Workshop
Saturdays, April 18, 25; 9:30 – 11:30am

Honey Beehive Tour
Sunday, April 19,  2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

LUNCHBOX Series: Anticipating Fall Color: What, Why, and Wow!
Wednesday, April 22, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

LUNCHBOX Series Restoring the Mighty Giant: Creating Resistance to Two Pathogens 
Wednesday, April 23, noon - 1:00 PM

Principles of Conservation Biology
Thursday, April 23, 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

On Arbor Day: Blight Resistance Chestnut Trees Grace the Coker Arboretum
Friday, April 24, 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Trees in Our State Forest: Clemmons Educational State Forest
Saturday, April 25,  noon - 2:00 PM