Meeting Dates

Our next few meetings will be in the gardens!

June-

Topic: Tour Sego Lily Gardens

Date: Thursday, June 19^th, 2014

6:30 Tour and discussion

Location: Sego Lily Gardens

1472 East Sego Lily Drive (10200 South)

Sego Lily Gardens is an educational garden designed for the public to observe and learn how to use water conservation principles and practices to create a beautiful and water-wise landscape. Take a springtime stroll through the gardens.

July-

Topic: Landscape Design

Date: Thursday, July 17^th 2014

6:30 Garden Tour / 7:00 Meeting

Location: Conservation Garden Park

8275 South 1300 West

West Jordan, UT

We will walk through the garden then meet in the classroom to discuss landscape design using water-wise plants.

August-

Topic: Summer BBQ

Date: Thursday, August 21st, 2014

6:30 

Location: Murray Park, Pavillion #5

 5130 S State

Join us for our annual summer BBQ.  It will be full of fun and surprises!

Murray Park Iris

Golden Reeves is taking care of the iris at Murray Park.  It was a great display!  If you didn't make it to the park, here is what you missed:

 The original bed was all hybrid iris, but had a severe quack grass infestation. Karen Crook and Becky Hansen decide to remove all the iris, spray the grass, then replant the iris. Unfortunately, the iris dried out before we could replant them. Karen had visited an iris garden in northern Utah called Zebra Gardens. She contacted the owner who agreed to donate new iris in exchange for helping him put together a large order for the USU Botanical garden. We spent a good part of a day helping him clean and label irises and received lots of gorgeous hybrid irises in return. Last year, Golden adopted the garden after seeing how lovely the blooms where. He also added some of his own. He has weeded and fertilized the garden the last two years.