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To the Groups:
I'd like to thank Lon for
including this posting. It just so happens that Region II is holding it's
summer regional meeting at the National Arboretum this Friday. There is an
open photo shoot at 6:00 AM with a program starting at 9:00. The full
details are on the GWA web site under Region II Meetings.
It's not to late to
reserve...
Kirk R. Brown
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Sent: Friday, May 20, 2005 5:14 PM
Subject: [GWL] Fwd: National Herb Garden
Turns 25
Something to break up the monotony.
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/color>National Herb Garden Turns
25
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STORY
LEAD:
National Herb Garden Celebrates 25th
Anniversary
___________________________________________
ARS News
Service
Agricultural Research Service, USDA
Alfredo Flores, (301)
504-1627, aflores@ars.usda.gov
May 20,
2005
___________________________________________
The National Herb
Garden in Washington, D.C., the largest designed herb garden in North America,
is kicking off a six-month celebration of its 25th anniversary. The herb
garden is located at the U.S. National Arboretum (USNA), operated by the
Agricultural Research Service (ARS).
The celebration will include a
series of special events, lectures and demonstrations planned to help visitors
understand the central role that herbs have played in societies for many
centuries. On May 21, the arboretum will present "The Making of a Garden,"
expected to draw interest from backyard and professional herb growers and
others who love the sights and smells of plants like rosemary, lavender,
scented geraniums and salvia. On June 18, the Potomac and Philadelphia units
of the Herb Society of America (HSA) will demonstrate the making of herbal
crafts. On September 17, the North Carolina unit will demonstrate its members'
work with herbal liqueurs and vinegar.
Dedicated in May 1980, the
garden began as a special gift to the people of the United States from the
HSA. The 2.5-acre garden, planned by landscape architect Tom Wirth, includes
hundreds of annual, perennial and woody herbal plants. Interpretive signs help
visitors understand the collection in the context of the herbs' history and
use.
An integral part of the arboretum, the herb garden is tended by
the USNA's Gardens Unit, led by garden curator and horticulturist Jim Adams.
Each year, the unit's staff grows about 400 varieties of annuals, including 60
to 90 varieties of peppers, and they maintain nearly 75 containers of tender
trees and shrubs indoors during winter.
Information about the
anniversary celebration and USNA events, as well a newly released virtual tour
of the garden, can be found on the arboretum's web site
at:
http://www.usna.usda.gov
More information about the garden is
also available in the May 2005 issue of Agricultural Research magazine,
available online
at:
http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/AR/archive/may05/garden0505.htm
ARS
is the U.S. Department of Agriculture's chief scientific research
agency.
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