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Ijams Nature Center Seed Swap

Title: Ijams Nature Center Seed Swap
Description: Living Clean & Green!

Swap seeds and trade gardening tips with your neighbors

This is an annual event at Ijams Nature Center.   Bring seeds you’ve saved from your garden and swap them with other gardeners. Or if you don’t have any seeds to trade, come anyway, there’s always plenty. A [...]

October 30 Seed Collection Trip

Title: Reseeding the Cumberlands Seed Collection Outing
Location: Barker Camp, Mowbray Mountain
Description: This Saturday, October 30, we’ll go back to Barker Camp on Mowbray Mountain and have a look in the lower lying areas, still trying to find unopened Hemlock cones, more Cucumber Magnolias, maybe Buckeye plus different species or more of the same but from [...]

October 16 Seed Collecting Trip

Cumberland Trail Ranger Terri Ballinger has just set the next Reseeding the Cumberlands collection trip for tomorrow, Saturday October 16 at the Rock Creek lower loop.   The Rock Creek trailhead is just off of Leggett Road in Sale Creek.  You can get more information about this part of the Cumberland Trail here: http://www.cumberlandtrail.org/docs/three_gorges_rock_description.pdf

We will be [...]

Reseeding the Cumberlands Seed Collection Outing

Title: Reseeding the Cumberlands Seed Collection Outing
Location: Barker Camp, Mowbray Mountain

Description: Our next volunteer collecting hike will be this Saturday, October 2nd at Barker Camp which is situated on Mowbray Mountain. This is an area adjacent to a local favorite swimming hole known as Paradise, and upon completion will be a lovely example of our [...]

First Seed Collection Outing Scheduled

As described in this post, a newly approved Master Gardener of Hamilton County Project, Reseeding the Cumberlands is taking off this week.  We will be assembling this Wednesday, September 15 at the Blue Hole parking lot in the park formerly known as the Bowater-North Chickamauga Pocket Wilderness at 3 pm.  Interpretive Ranger Terri [...]

New MG Project Part of Seeds of Success

A newly approved Master Gardener of Hamilton County Project gets off the ground and on the trails Wednesday, September 15 at the Bowater-North Chickamauga Pocket Wilderness (Blue Hole – off Montlake Road) section of the Cumberland Trail State Scenic Trail (CTSST).  Under the supervision and expert eye of the State Park Rangers, Master Gardeners and [...]

Seeds of Success Training

Are you interested in helping to conserve, rehabilitate and restore our native lands?  The August 26 “Seeds of Success” training session will be a great opportunity for your to learn about how you can participate in area seed collection programs being  held this fall. The training will be held in the Fishbowl Meeting Room in [...]

Thousand Cankers Disease Discovered in East Tennessee

Just one week after the first signs of Emerald Ash Borer beetle in Tennessee were found, the Tennessee Department of Agriculture (TDA) confirmed a state forester’s discovery of Thousand Cankers Disease (TCD) in the same area – Knox County in East Tennessee.  Thousand Cankers Disease is a fungus that affects walnut trees and is potentially [...]

Mid-South Native Plant Conference

Title: Mid-South Native Plant Conference
Location: Dixon Gallery and Gardens, 4339 Park Avenue, Memphis, TN
Description: After a 13-year hiatus, the Mid-South Native Plant Conference returns to Memphis October 8 through October 10, 2010. With the theme “Natives and Beyond: Sustainable Plants, Gardens and Communities” the conference brings a world-class roster of nationally acclaimed horticulturalists, botanists, and [...]

Learn about Tennessee Wildflowers

The Native Plants and Wildflower group is pleased to announce that Dennis Horn will be the speaker at the August 2 meeting to talk about Tennessee wildflowers.  The meeting will be held at the Ag Center (see map below) and the presentation will begin promptly at 6:30 pm.

Dennis Horn is the lead author of the [...]