EVENTSDUKE GARDENS Floral Designs for Fall with Alice Le Duc, 1-4 p.m. Tuesday. $15. How Does Your Garden Grow, Explore what plants need to survive and grow, decorate your own container and pot a live plant for home. Pre-registration required, 10:30-11:30 a.m. Friday. $6. Bird Walks with Cynthia Fox. Registration requested, 8 a.m. Nov. 3. Spring Bulbs in a Container, 2-4 p.m. Nov. 6. $20-$30. Tuteurs: Types & Construction, learn what tuteurs are and create one for your garden, 1-4 p.m. Nov. 8. $20-$30. Garden Guild Holiday Crafts Sale, 1-4 p.m. Nov. 10-11. 668-1707 Doris Duke Center, Sarah P. Duke Gardens, Durham.
N.C. BOTANICAL GARDEN Winter Interest in the Landscape by garden writer, designer and photographer Pam Beck, 2 p.m. Nov. 4. N.C. Botanical Garden, U.S. 15-501 Bypass and Old Mason Farm Road, Chapel Hill. www.ncbg.unc.edu.
N.C. GARDEN SHARE Online plant swap for Triangle gardeners, www.ncgardenshare.com.
N.C. NATIVE PLANT SOCIETY Monthly Triangle-area meetings, First and third Sunday of most months. Call for schedule details, www.ncwildflower.org.
Trees Across Raleigh Fall Planting, Mayor Meeker will speak and all volunteers should wear old clothing and gloves. Please bring planting tools, 8:30 a.m. Nov. 3. 571-7937 Nash Square Downtown Raleigh, 200 W. Hargett St., Raleigh.
NORTH AMERICAN ROCK GARDEN SOCIETY My Improbable Garden with Ellen Horning, 10 a.m. Nov. 17. $5. 781-3291 Totten Center, N.C. Botanical Garden, Chapel Hill.
RALEIGH GARDEN CLUB Monthly meeting, 11 a.m. Nov. 7. Lunch reservation required. 387-0290 N.C. State University Club, 4200 Hillsborough St., Raleigh.
MASTER GARDENERS
DURHAM COUNTY 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday-Friday, 560-0528. Durham County Extension Center, 721 Foster St., Durham. durham.ces.ncsu.edu/index.php?page=extensioncenter.
JOHNSTON COUNTY 989-5380. jcmastergardener@yahoo.com.
LEE COUNTY 2420 Tramway Road, Sanford. 775-5624.
Moore County Master gardeners answer questions, Monday-Friday, 10 a.m.-noon, (910) 947-3188.
ORANGE COUNTY Advice from the N.C. Botanical Garden: call or stop by on weekdays noon-1 p.m. to speak with garden curator or noon-2 p.m. Wednesdays and Fridays to speak with a master gardener, 962-0522. N.C. Botanical Garden, U.S. 15-501 Bypass and Old Mason Farm Road, Chapel Hill. www.ncbg.unc.edu.
WAKE COUNTY Plant, pest and weed identification and recommendations, Wake County Extension Center, 4001 Carya Drive, Raleigh. 250-1084.
WILSON County Wilson County Extension Center, Monday, Wednesday and Friday, 1-3 p.m., 1806 S.W. Goldsboro St., Wilson. (252) 237-0113, wilsonmastergardener@hotmail.com.
GARDEN TOURS
J.C. RAULSTON ARBORETUM Self-guided tours, 8 a.m.-5 p.m. daily, 515-3132 J.C. Raulston Arboretum, 4415 Beryl Road, Raleigh. www.ncsu.edu/jcraulstonarboretum.
NICHE GARDENS Guided Garden Walk with discussions on fall planting, gardening design and more, 10 a.m. today. 967-0078 Niche Gardens, 1111 Dawson Road, Chapel Hill.
SOURCE:News & Observer
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