LAMBERTON, Minn. — Managing wildlife pests in your garden, vegetable gardening in MN, flowering shrubs, and blue spruce trees will be the featured topics at the Southwest Research & Outreach Center’s annual Horticulture Day on Wednesday, April 3. Four horticulture experts will be featured at this year’s program:
- John Loegering is a Professor in the Agriculture and Natural Resources Department at the University of Minnesota Crookston. His research interests include: wildlife-habitat relationships, wildlife-human relationships, riparian and wetland ecosystems, aviation ecology, quantitative ecology. He is a curator for the UMC Wildlife Museum.
- Steve Poppe is the Horticulture Scientist at the University of Minnesota West Central Research and Outreach Center (WCROC) in Morris, MN. With over 40 years of experience, his program provides scientific evaluations of annual flowers, herbaceous perennials, high tunnel vegetables, low tunnel day-neutral strawberries, june bearing strawberries, apricots, woody plants, windbreaks and shelterbelts, ornamental grasses, and hardy shrub roses.
- John Ball is a Professor in the Department of Agronomy, Horticulture & Plant Science at South Dakota State University in Brookings. His areas of special interest include: the influence of urban development on forest fragmentation; the influence of tree cover on residential heating and cooling costs; and the competitive relationships between ornamental trees and turf grasses.
- Tony Guggisberg is the co-owner of River Creek Nursery in New Ulm. The nursery offers a wide variety of trees, shrubs, evergreens, perennials, and annual flowers when in season.
Seating at Horticulture Day is limited, so sign up today! Pre-registrations are due by Monday, March 25. Registration forms are available at http://swroc.cfans.umn.edu or by calling the SWROC at 507-752-7372. On Wednesday, April 3rd, registration will begin at 9:30 a.m. with presentations beginning at 10:00 a.m. and concluding at 3:00 p.m.
— Southwest Research & Outreach Center
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