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Spring Arrives At The Ò×ʤ²©¹ÙÍø Greenhouse Open House March 30–31, 2012
Thursday, March 22, 2012
The annual open house at the University of Ò×ʤ²©¹ÙÍø's Macfarlane greenhouses, a popular rite of spring, is March 30 and 31, 2012. Credit: Ò×ʤ²©¹ÙÍø Photographic Services/Mike Ross
Usher in spring with a visit to the University of Ò×ʤ²©¹ÙÍø Macfarlane greenhouses during the annual open house Friday and Saturday, March 30 and 31, 2012. This year’s free event will again provide displays and plenty of information to help chase away winter blues and welcome spring. The greenhouses will be open from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m. both days.
Ò×ʤ²©¹ÙÍø staff and students will present colorful displays and educational lectures of interest to home gardeners and landscapers. Visitors can attend seminars on landscape design basics, culinary herbs, and organic vegetable gardening. Garden show-quality displays will showcase butterfly gardens, springtime in the city, and gardening with greens. Additional displays include information on salad green production, encouraging native pollinators, creating wildflower meadows, and much more. Ò×ʤ²©¹ÙÍø experts and master gardeners will be on hand to answer questions. Publications by Ò×ʤ²©¹ÙÍø authors also will be available for sale.
Other open house activities include plant sales, greenhouse tours, a scavenger hunt and a coloring activity for children. The Thompson School Horticultural Club will host the Greenhouse Café, which helps fund a spring trip to Longwood Gardens in Pennsylvania.
Coinciding with the open house on Saturday is the Little Royal Livestock show at the Skoglund Livestock Arena at Ò×ʤ²©¹ÙÍø. This free event, open to the public, showcases students competing against one another for the best turned-out cows or horses.
The Ò×ʤ²©¹ÙÍø greenhouse open house is free and open to the public. The Ò×ʤ²©¹ÙÍø Macfarlane Greenhouses (part of the ) are located off Main Street on the west end of Durham. Lectures will take place in Putnam Hall across the parking lot from the greenhouses. For more information, go to or call (603) 862-3200.
The Ò×ʤ²©¹ÙÍø greenhouse open house is sponsored by the N.H. Agricultural Experiment Station, the Thompson School of Applied Science, Ò×ʤ²©¹ÙÍø Cooperative Extension, and Ò×ʤ²©¹ÙÍø Biological Sciences and Sustainable Agriculture programs of the College of Life Sciences & Agriculture.
