ROANOKE, Va.—
A workshop is coming up to help people get into water-wise gardening.The Virginia cooperative extension master gardeners are hosting the clinic called "Keeping the green in your garden and your wallet." The workshop is Saturday, October 15 from 8:30-11:30 at the Natural Science Center of Virginia Western Community College.
The is designed to highlight water-wise landscape practices.
"If you put the right plant in the right place, you've prepped your soil, you're going to keep yourself from having to re-do it all over again," said Sharon Burnham, master gardener. "So it really does have a benefit and you can create a beautiful garden by employing these principles and minimizing your time and effort."
Workshop participants will be divided into three groups and will rotate through 3 different activities. There will be a lecture component to discuss what water-wise landscaping is. There will be a hands-on component. Participants will be given sedum plants of various types to put into a container that they can take home with them. Then there will be a demonstration and walk through the Community Arboretum to highlight what a water-wise garden looks like.
"The benefit to the community is you're conserving a very precious resource, water. It's a limited, finite resource," said Burnham. "In addition you're protecting our water supply by not allowing as many nutrients and fertilizers and soil washing into the water supply. So it benefits the homeowner, but it benefits the community too."
The cost of the water-wise gardening workshop is $15 per person. The deadline to register is Friday, October 7.
To sign up, contact the Virginia Cooperative Extension at 540-776-7178.
