Residential Landscape Design, March 2008

Participants in the March Linnaeus Teaching Gardens four session lecture,Residential Landscape Design, learned how to create a beautiful landscape and make gardening fun. The knowledge they acquired will help them eliminate the most common gardening mistakes listed below.

• Using poor quality plants
• Wrong plant, wrong place
• Restricted planting hole
• Shallow watering
• Plants too close to each other and structures
• Not mulching
• Expecting instant success

Great Soils Seminar, February 2008

A great soil is what makes beautiful roses, wonderful vegetables, healthy trees, and keeps our perennials and annuals looking vibrant every year. Understanding basic soil management is the most important thing a gardener can ever learn.

During the "Great Soils Seminar" on February 16th, Barry Fugatt, Director of Horticulture, taught what it takes to make a soil truly healthy and productive and what it takes to maintain that productivity over the long haul. Participants learned how to help their perennials survive and prosper each year, their annuals make their beds pop with bold color, and their trees survive the Oklahoma weather, all through proper soil management.

Tree Care Seminar, February 2008

Up With Trees, Tulsa Parks, AEP-PSO, OSU Extension, Tulsa Community College, local nurseries and others participated in free tree care seminars to help homeowners with care for their trees that were recently damaged in December's ice storm. The first of these seminars was held in February at the Tulsa Garden Center auditorium.

Participants learned about tree selection, proper planting, pruning, tree restoration through pruning and cabling, fertility and other topics. A wealth of tree care information was provided and questions were answered regarding storm damaged trees and tree replacement.