The Gardners Connect annual Kansas City Garden Symposium will feature a six-hour garden design class entitled, The Garden Room Method, to help you unravel the design process and delineate living and planting spaces. This workshop will challenge you to look at landscape design as a series of purposeful outdoor spaces. Our day will be filled […]
The Kansas City Garden Symposium is hosted annually by Gardeners Connect. The full-day symposium is planned for Saturday, March 16, in Arrupe Hall on the campus of Rockhurst University, 54th Street and Troost Avenue in Kansas City, MO. For $99, the event includes four speakers, six presentations, lunch, and a gift bag. A garden design […]
Kick off farmers market season at the Eat Local & Organic Expo! Shop with more than 30 KC Food Circle™ farmers who pledge to meet high standards for growing plants and mushrooms, beekeeping and raising animals. Attendees can talk directly with farmers as they sign up for weekly farm shares, buy transplants for their gardens, […]
In April, a lily expert from the top ranks of the North American lily world is coming to Kansas City to discuss the delight and wonder of growing lilies. Art Evans from Gravette, Ark., plans to present a program titled, Lily Addiction: Not That Bad, Really! He plans to talk about the magnetic attraction of […]
If there was one taste of summer for Kansas City-area gardeners, it must be that of a tomato. Not a supermarket tomato, but a garden-grown one or one grown by area producers. The May program in Gardeners Connect’s Free Speaker Series celebrates the tomato with a presentation by half of the entrepreneurial couple who produce […]
Celebrate the newest garden addition to the Overland Park Arboretum & Botanical Gardens — the Emily Dickinson Garden. Guests are invited to gather in the new garden space to enjoy a short speaking program, poetry reading, ribbon cutting, and acorn planting ceremony, followed by a light social on the Waterside Terrace. Admission to attend the […]
Fall tradition celebrates monarch butterflies. As fall approaches so does one of nature’s greatest mysteries. It’s the annual monarch butterfly migration, when thousands of monarchs pass through the Lower Midwest heading for Mexico. The Johnson County Extension Master Naturalists invite you to be a part of the magic on Saturday, September 28th at the Pollinator […]
