Alt. Garden Club Meeting Aug. 2, 2017: Poisonous Plants
The next meeting of the Alternative Garden Club will be held on Wednesday, August 2 at 7:30 PM in the Garden Center. The topic will be “Poisonous Plants: Don’t Try These at Home!” […]
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Iris sale July 29, 2017
On Saturday, July 29, from 10 AM to Noon the Utah Iris Society will hold an iris rhizome sale in the Sugar House Garden Center, to be followed by an auction of hybridized irises. […]
Daylily Tour July 15, 2017
On July 15, Paul Genho will be opening his daylily garden in Payson, UT to the public. Mr. Genho is a renowned hybridizer of new daylily varieties, and he spends part of the year in Florida and part of the year in Utah. The tour will feature thousands of daylilies in bloom, as well as […]
Rose Show June 24, 2017
The Utah Rose Society will be holding its annual show on Saturday, June 24 from 12 noon until 4 PM in the Sugar House Garden Center. Come see all of the beautiful roses that Utah has to offer. You will be impressed! […]
Alt. Garden Club Meeting June 7, 2017: Edible Weeds
The next meeting of the Alternative Garden Club will be Wednesday, June 7 at 7:30 PM in the Garden Center. The topic will be “Edible Weeds: If you can’t beat ’em, eat ’em!” A surprising number of the common weeds that invade our fields and gardens actually started out as edible plants, or have been […]
Alt. Garden Club Meeting May 3, 2017: Historic Spring City
Come hear historian Alan Barnett talk about the architecture and history of Spring City, Utah, a unique little community that preserves many fascinating traces of the vanishing Mormon village that typified 19th-century Utah. […]
Alt. Garden Club Meeting and Tree Planting April 5, 2017
Spring is here! Our next meeting will be Wednesday, April 5 at 7:30 PM in the Sugar House Garden Center. Thom Sawyer of Millcreek Gardens will be presenting some fun new garden plants, and he’ll be raffling them off so that you can take one home to try in your own garden! Come early at […]
Alt. Garden Club Meeting March 1, 2017: Roses
The next meeting of the Alternative Garden Club will be on Wednesday, March 1 at 7:30 PM in the Sugar House Garden Center. The speaker will be Elise Hutchings, president of the Utah Rose Society, on the topic of “How to Prune Roses.” Her presentation was so popular last year that we wanted to invite […]
Alt. Garden Club Meeting Feb. 1, 2017
The next meeting of the Alternative Garden Club will feature a presentation on “The Secret Life of Trees,” originally developed by Dr. Ed Gilman of the University of Florida. Come find out what’s going on below ground and inside your trees–why some trees weather the storms and others collapse into kindling–and learn how to predict […]
Alt. Garden Club Meeting January 4, 2017
The next meeting of the Alternative Garden Club will be Wednesday, January 4 at 7:30 PM in the Garden Center. This will be our annual potluck and planning meeting. Please bring a dish to share and your ideas about what you’d like to do in 2017. This is an important meeting, and the more participation […]