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July 29, 2009
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CONTENTS
- Take a Virtual Garden Tour, Then Visit the Arb & See the Real Thing
- Midsummer Pleasures at the Arboretum
- Family Fun Weekend Aug. 8 & 9
- A Dilly of an Event: Members-Only Icre Cream Social Aug. 11
- Now Available in the Arboretum Cafe
If you cannot read this, click HERE for the website version.
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Take a Virtual Garden Tour, Then Visit the Arb & See the Real Thing
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Want to check out an Arboretum garden from your computer at home? Now you can, thanks to the Arboretum’s new garden cam, which provides a virtual tour of the gardens on the east side of the Oswald Visitor Center. To access the tour, you can visit http://www.arboretum.umn.edu/gardencamrequirements.aspx. The camera page is gardencam.aspx. To see the tour, you need quicktime installed on your computer. To install it, visit http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download. The site is best viewed with Internet Explorer 6.0, 1024 x 768 resolution and 24-bit color or higher. The site allows up to 20 viewers at any one time. The tour lasts about 15 minutes and then the browser will end your session. The garden cam scans the garden from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. From 9 p.m. to 6 a.m., the view is fixed.
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Midsummer Pleasures at the Arboretum
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Growing Roses in Minnesota
10 a.m. – 12:30 p.m., $30 member/$40 non-member
Saturday, Aug. 1, Snyder Classroom 2
Join rosarian Jim Beardsley, and discover how easy it is to grow both tender and hardy roses in our cold climate. Learn general rose care and visit the Arboretum’s Wilson Rose Garden for inspiration. Click here
Featherstone Farm Cookbook Signings Aug. 1
Noon - 2 p.m., SummerHouse, 2:30 – 3 p.m., Arboretum Gift Store
Meet Mi Ae Lipe , author of Tastes from Valley to Bluff – The Featherstone Farm Cookbook, at two book signings. Mi Ae Lipe is an expert on the community-supported agriculture movement (CSA). The Arboretum SummerHouse is a drop-site for two CSA programs. The SummerHouse is located one mile west of the Arboretum entrance.
Watercolor Techniques for Botanicals
10 a.m. – 12:30 p.m., $105 member/$125 non-member
Wednesday, Aug. 5, (first of a four-part series) Snyder Classroom 2
Learn how to mix colors and use techniques necessary to paint leaves, stems, petals, and entire flowers. Instructor Kathy Creger is an award-winning watercolor artist. Click here
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Family Fun Weekend Aug. 8 & 9
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In the Heart of the Beast performance
Saturday, Aug. 8, 12:30 – 1:15 p.m., free, MacMillan Auditorium
In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre presents “Land of 10,000 Lakes “ as part of Waterosity Summer Exhibition.
Story Time in the Library
Saturday, Aug. 8, 1:45 p.m. – 2:15 p.m., free with admisison
Andersen Horticultural Library, Snyder Building
Little ones are invited to visit the Library’s book nook to hear stories about food (both yummy and icky) and food plants. Especially geared to the 4-to-8-year-old crowd, but the entire family is welcome.
Free Family Fun
Summer Succulents Family Activities
Saturdays and Sundays, noon – 4 p.m., free with admission, Marion Andrus Learning Center
Sedums, cacti, and other succulents thrive with just an occasional drink and grow well even on green roof gardens. Plant your own succulent and discover some of the amazing survival adaptations of plants designed for dry living. Invent your own survival adaptation while you snack on an edible cactus.
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A Dilly of an Event: Members-Only Ice Cream Social
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Tues., Aug. 11, 2:30 – 4 p.m. or 6:30 – 8 p.m.
Free chocolate dilly bars to members and their immediate families as a summer-time thank you for your support year-round. Compliments of Dairy Queen and the Arboretum. RSVP please with name, member #, afternoon or evening and number of persons attending to 952-443-1400 ext. 5025 by August 7.
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Now Available in the Arboretum Café
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