Garden events note for Catoctin Orchid and related tours
The Catoctin Orchid Society meets at 1 p.m. Sunday April 14 with a trip to a Baltimore orchid grower. meet at 170 Park and Ride Frederick. Brookside Gardens offers education programs at 1500 Glenallan Ave Wheaton with registration 9 29 6510. Robert Goss of the National Capital Dahlia Society demonstrates flower care at 10 a.m. Friday April 12, fee 5. A garden tour begins 2 p.m. Saturday April 13. Ed Reiley speaks on azaleas and rhododendrons Thursday April 18 at 1 p.m. fee 5.
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Brookside Gardens
Glenallan Avenue
Wheaton
Robert Goss
National Capital Dahlia Society
Ed Reiley
Reiley Ridge
Washington Area
Catoctin Orchid Society
Wild Bird Co
Fiow
Freerkiky
Land Orchid Society
Owings Mills
the Arboretum
National Arboretum
Frederick
Forestry contest set at Wye Center near Queenstown
The Maryland H Cooperative Extension Service invites youth ages 8 to 18 to a forestry and wildlife invitational on Sunday May 19 at Wye Research and Education Center. Events include tree ID forest evaluation measurements orienteering insect and disease ID wildlife management plans and a wildlife habitat interpretation. Call 694-1594 for details.
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Maryland +H Cooperative Extension Service
Wye
Queenstown
Maryland
Tuber Sale By National Capital Dahlia Society
Members of the National Capital Dahlia Society sponsor a tuber sale at 7 p.m. Thursday April 11 at the Bethesda Library located on 7400 Arlington Road in Bethesda. For more information call 384-1795 or (703) 356-7738.
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National Capital Dahlia Society
P.m
Bethesda Library
Arlington Road
Bethesda
Plant clinics offered by Howard County Master Gardeners
The Howard County Master Gardeners will run free plant clinics April through September at Miller Branch Library Ellicott City from 7 to 8 30 p m on Mondays or 19 a m to noon Saturdays and Savage Branch Library Laurel from 10 a m to noon Saturdays. Trained by University of Maryland Cooperative Extension Service, master gardeners will assist and provide publications on gardening topics. Clinics omit holiday weekends. For more information call 410 313 2707.
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Howard County
Miller Branch
Frederick Road
Ellicott City
Savage Branch
Durness Lane
Laurel
University of Maryland Cooperative Extension Service
Roses Sale By Monocacy Rose Society In Frederick
Monocacy Rose Society members will sell potted miniature roses on Saturday and Sunday May 4 and 5 at the community alley inside the Francis Scott Key Mall in Frederick. Each plant is priced at five dollars with many selections offered. For more information call 371-5139 or 296-9697.
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Monocacy Rose Society
Francis Scott Key
Frederick
Rose Hill
Merryweather Post
Francis Scott Key Mall
Union Mills Homestead
Union Villa
Westminster
Frederick County
Isy
Landis Valley Museum
Lancaster
Maryland Orchid Society Show and Sale Set
Members of the Maryland Orchid Society hold a show and sale from Friday to Sunday, April 19 to 21, at Owings Mills Town Center. Admission is free.
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Maryland Orchid Society
Owings Mill Town Center
Free pine seedlings for Carroll County residents recycling trees
Carroll County residents who recycled Christmas trees can pick up free pine seedlings. Availability is Friday April 12 from 7 am to 4 30 pm at the Northern Landfill and Saturday April 13 from 7 am to 3 pm at both the Northern Landfill and Heads Mill Landfill on a first come first served basis. Call your town office to confirm dates and times or call 410 857 2633 for more recycling information.
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Carroll County
Heads Mill
Frederick forestry board wins state team award
The Frederick County Forestry Board and the Frederick Washington counties project office of the Maryland DNR Forest Service received the Team award at the Maryland Association of Forest Conservancy District Boards meeting. They were honored for developing and presenting forest management workshops led by Frederick County Forest Service Project Manager Mike Kay who organized the workshop program to boost knowledge on timber harvest planning.
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Frederick County Forestry Board
Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service
Forestry Board
Frederick, Washington Counties
DNR Forest Service
Maryland Association of Forest Conservancy District
Frederick County Forest Service
Mike Kay
Tasker's Chance Garden Club Plans Spring Plant Sale
Co chairs Lynda Artusio and Katie Rudinger show annuals geraniums and bedding plants for the club's sale at City Hall Park Frederick from 7 30 a m to 1 p m on Wednesday April 24.
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Lynda Artusio
Katie Rudinger
Tasker
Chance Garden Club
City Hall Park
Frederick
West Virginia
Leesburg
Bowman House Museum
Boonesboro
Garden calendar highlights upcoming regional plant events
The Green-house Calendar in The Frederick News-Post lists diverse horticultural happenings from April to May. It includes club meetings, plant sales, garden tours, lectures, and nature center open houses across Frederick, Bethesda, Timonium, Owings Mills, Leesburg, and surrounding areas with dates such as April 11 to May 11 and venues like Homewood campus Johns Hopkins, Maryland State Fairgrounds, and National Arboretum.
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Frederick
Johns Hopkins University
Homewood
Baltimore
Maryland State Fairgrounds
Timonium
Frederick County
Ill
Fountain Rock
Walkersville
Sugar Loaf Mountain Violet Society
Frederick Adult Recreation Center
Tree roses add height drama to home gardens
Tree roses grafted onto trunks 18 to 48 inches tall bring instant beauty with 1996 All-America Rose Selections winners like St Patrick Mt Hood and Livin Easy. Plant them in groups for driveways hedges or container displays with Carefree Delight as a shrub rose option.
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St. Patrick
Mt. Hood
All-America Rose Selections
U.S
Mexican vegetables invade U S market
Bad weather and rising competition from Mexico have slashed Florida’s slice of the U S fresh winter vegetable market. USDA notes continued pressure as the peso value and trade factors loom. Florida produced 57 percent of winter veggies in 1991-92 but fell from 36 percent last year and may drop again this winter. Storms in Mexico raised Florida share in 1991-92. planting delays hit Florida this year. The report covers tomatoes peppers chambers eggplant snap beans and squash, which together make up about three quarters of Florida’s fresh veggie industry.
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Washington
Mexico
Florida
U.S. S
Agriculture Department
United States
USDA
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Rowin Trout Lawn Service
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