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Landscape Plants for North Carolina Gardens: Spring

A plant with drooping white petals against a background of bright red flowers.
Wednesday, April 11, 2018
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Katie Rose Levin, instructor

Expand your palette of plants with information from this class. Each season the class covers another group of approximately 75 plants that thrive in North Carolina gardens, plus a few to avoid. You will learn identification skills and design use, and understand the culture of each plant. Class time is primarily outdoors, and each student receives a portfolio of photos showing the plants studied that season. Instructor: Katie Rose Levin, arborist consultant Leaf & Limb, Durham, lives and breathes plants and trees. She has a double master's degree from Duke in forestry and environmental management, and after graduating, she managed trees on Duke's campus for years. Course meets for 4 sessions. Dates: Spring section, 4 Wednesdays, April 11-May 2, 4-6 p.m.; Summer section: 4 Wednesdays, May 30-June 27, (no class on June 13), 4-6 p.m. Location: Doris Duke Center. Qualifies for Home Horticulture Certificate required course. Information/registration: 919-668-1707 or gardenseducation@duke.edu.

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