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Purdue Garden Day

Saturday, July 10, 2004

10:00 am - 4:00 PM

Gardeners will find rooms with a view at the annual Purdue University Garden Day, Saturday, July 10! This annual open-house event will be held from 10:00 A.M. to 4:00 P.M. at the Purdue University Horticulture Building and Gardens on the West Lafayette Campus.

The festivities include guided tours of the ornamental gardens, a gardening information booth, and gardening lectures, presented by experts from Purdue and beyond. Morning tours of the Horticulture Greenhouses will also be offered.

This year's ornamental garden has been "remodeled" into separate rooms filled to the brim with annual bedding plants and vines. These rooms offer home gardeners ideas that can be adapted to their backyard, no matter how small. In addition to the annual displays, hundreds of perennials including over forty cultivars of hosta and daylilies, will be in their prime.

The gardening lectures will cover summer bulbs, managing yard waste, and organic gardening, and will be held in air-conditioned comfort!

Purdue Consumer Horticulture Extension staff and the Tippecanoe County Master Gardeners will be on hand to help answer your gardening questions. Master Gardeners are volunteers of the Purdue Cooperative Extension Service.

All of the Purdue Garden Day events are free and open to the public. The Purdue University Horticulture Gardens are located adjacent to the Horticulture Building at Wood and Marsteller Streets on the West Lafayette Campus, just north of the Purdue Veterinary School. Free parking is available on Marsteller Street, east of the Horticulture Building and Gardens. For questions about the event, call (765) 494-1296 or email homehort@purdue.edu.

Directions to Purdue Horticulture Gardens

From Interstate 65 or US 231:

Head West on Indiana 26, turn South (left) on Grant Street (new building construction is on the left). Go two blocks to Harrison Street and turn West (right). Go two blocks to Marstellar and turn North (right), The Gardens will be just past the greenhouses on your left. You may park along Marstellar or in the gravel parking lot on the right hand side just past the Gardens.

Additional travel information to Purdue, including a campus map, is located at http://news.uns.purdue.edu/newsweb.maps.html.

Schedule of Events

Gardening Information Booth

10:00am - 4:00 pm

Staffed by Tippecanoe County Master Gardeners and Rosie Lerner, Purdue Extension Consumer Horticulturist

Tours

10:00 A.M. - Flower Garden

Mary Lou Hayden, Horticulture Gardens Director

10:30 A.M. - Teaching/Research Greenhouses

Tippecanoe Master Gardeners

Noon - Flower Garden

Mary Lou Hayden, Horticulture Gardens Director

Lectures

11:00 A.M. - Noon
The Bulbs of Summer

Jo Ellen Meyers Sharp
Garden Writer and co-author Indiana Gardener's Guide

1:00 P.M. - 2:00 P.M.
Organic Gardening - Traditional or Radical?

Rosie Lerner
Purdue Extension Consumer Horticulture Specialist

2:30 P.M. - 3:30 P.M.
Waste Not, Want Not; Managing Yard Waste

Indiana Department of Environmental Management (IDEM)

Purdue Garden Day is free and open to the public.
Ample street parking is available.

Last updated: 23 March 2006
Questions about this site should be sent to homehort@purdue.edu.

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