- Heirloom & Water-Wise Spring Plant Sale and Fundraiser
Water less, grow more! A great selection of perennials for shade and sun that adapt well to drier regional summer conditions and stand up to the season’s heat. Also on sale in Greenhouse 3: kitchen favorites—heirloom herbs and vegetables grown and sold by Cultivating Community, the U-M student volunteer gardening group. All proceeds support Matthaei-Nichols and Cultivating Community. Free admission. 734.647.7600.
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Date: 5/19/2012 to 5/20/2012
Date Details: Sat. & Sun., 10 am - 4:30 pm
Time: 10 am to 4:30 pm
- 2012 U-M Nichols Arboretum Peony Festival
The Peony Festival this year celebrates the 90th anniversary of the famed Nichols Arboretum Peony Garden, the largest collection of antique and heirloom peonies in North America. The festival also features free staff-led and self-guided tours, cut-flower display in the Reader Center, and more. Free admission. Nichols Arboretum is open sunrise to sunset.
Stay tuned for more information. For updates on the Garden, visit our website, Facebook page, Twitter @MatthaeiNicholsor call for more information, 734.647.7600.
Location: Nichols Arboretum
Date: 5/15/2012 to 6/5/2012
Date Details: Tues., May 15 through Tues., June 5 (dates are approximate and depend on weather)
Time: 10 am to 4:30 pm
- Washtenaw Community College
Annual Training Seminar
Sponsored by Great Lakes Judging (Orchids)
This year’s topic covers the miscellaneous genera of orchids. Talks focus on species, hybridization, and/or judging. Each speaker will include a discussion of orchid culture in his or her class. Saturday class includes break for dinner.
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Date: 5/20/2012
Date Details: Sat. & Sun., May 19 (3:30-8 pm) & 20 (9 am-1 pm), Morris Lawrence Bldg.
Time: 9 am to 1 pm
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- Free Guided Peony Garden Tours
All invited for a series of twice-daily, free staff-led tours of the U-M Nichols Arboretum Peony Garden, May 15-20 during the 2012 peony bloom season. All tours take place in the Arboretum, 1610 Washington Hts., at 12:15 & 7 pm. Due to unseasonably warm weather last winter and this spring we've moved the bloom time up. For updates on the peony garden and bloom times visit our Facebook page or follow us on Twitter.
Sunday, May 20, 12:15 pm:
Staff Picks - Favorite peonies of Matthaei-Nichols staff
7:00 pm
How to Grow Peonies - Experts tips, hints, and information from our staff on growing peonies right
Location: Nichols Arboretum
Date: 5/20/2012
Date Details: Sunday, May 20, 12:15 & 7 PM, Nichols Arboretum
Time: 12:15 pm to 7:30 pm
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- Bulbophyllums
Sponsored by the Ann Arbor Orchid Society
Tonight’s speaker is Nile Dusdieker of Cedar Rapids, IA on Bulbophyllums—the largest group of orchids containing over 2000 species found mostly across Southeast Asia and the South Pacific Islands. Plants range in size from one-inch miniatures to 6-foot giants, and flowers from cute and showy to unusual and bizarre, sweetly fragrant to downright awful!
Location: Matthaei Botanical Gardens
Date: 5/20/2012
Time: 2 pm
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