Midwest Gardening Symposium: Sustainable with Style

The PURE Gardener's hours on Friday 13th will be 10-2PM and we will be closed Saturday, 14th. See Craig at The Morton Arboretum at the Landscape Expo Section.

Midwest Gardening Symposium: Sustainable with Style

On March 13-15, 2009, join us for this outstanding symposium providing lectures, workshops, tours, and demonstrations of environmentally friendly gardening techniques. Learn how to create an eco-gorgeous landscape garden right for you.

At the Midwest Gardening Symposium, you can:

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See how local landscape architects make eco-friendly design choices for typical houses.
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Talk to the 6 Design Challenge homeowners about their sustainable makeovers.
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Determine what type of watering system is best for your garden and how to store and use rainfall as part of your garden design.
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Create a list of plants that are perfect for those super dry areas in your garden.
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Free yourself from factory-type stores and get on board with the locally-grown food movement; find out how and where to get fresh organic vegetables all year around.
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Learn how Mt. Cuba, a country estate in Delaware, became one of the premier gardens known for using native plants in a traditional and sophisticated way.
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Discover how to be true to yourself and your property’s ecology with Claire Sawyer’s 5-step approach to designing authentic gardens.
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Take an arm-chair tour of a fabulous and sustainable Chicago home that showcases cutting edge green technology with great savvy.
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Enjoy a green garden party with cooking demos, gardening exhibits, snacks and cash bar.

Register online now or by phone at 630-719-2468