Questions?
Please call: 801-581-8454
Email: education@redbutte.utah.edu
Tuesdays, September 1 & 8
5-7pm
Join Red Butte Garden’s expert horticulturist, Guy Banner for a two part class to learn about seed collection. We’ll explore when to harvest, how to handle seeds after collection, and how to plant them for best results. We’ll provide a list of plants, and plant labels and envelopes. Please bring gloves and hand pruners.
We’ll be collecting seeds from Utah sweetvetch, blue flax, prairie coneflower, milkweed, Rocky Mountain beeplant, aspen, daisy, chocolate flower, bluebunch wheatgrass, little bluestem, sideoats grama, and many more Utah native plants!
This class is part of the Dig Deeper Wasatch: Yard and Garden Program.
This program brings together three educational partners and experts in gardening along the Wasatch Front – Red Butte Garden, Conservation Garden Park, and Utah State University Extension at Wheeler Historic Farm.
In each core or elective class, participants will learn new skills and best practices in a wide array of horticulture-based topics while keeping water conservation and sustainability in the forefront. There is something for all skill sets and interests.
To learn how to participate in this certificate program click the Dig Deeper Wasatch logo. You do not need to participate in DDW program to take part in this class.