A `green' green thumb.Byline: Susan Palmer The Register-Guard Ma'Carry Cairo's garden has that winter look: a few last straggling strag·gle intr.v. strag·gled, strag·gling, strag·gles 1. To stray or fall behind. 2. To proceed or spread out in a scattered or irregular group. n. yellow blossoms on the evening primrose evening primrose, common name for the Onagraceae, a family of plants of worldwide distribution, most species of which grow as herbs in the temperate New World, and specifically for members of the genus Oenothera. , bright red berries Red Berry may refer to:
Cairo gardens for the birds, butterflies and bees, critters she likes to attract to her Friendly neighborhood area yard. Cairo is also conscious of her garden's effect on the community. She doesn't use pesticides, lets her lawn go dormant in the summer to keep water use to a minimum and landscapes with a variety of native plants, such as Oregon grape Oregon grape: see barberry. Oregon grape of Oregon. [Flower Symbolism: Golenpaul, 640] See : Flower, State and salal. "You hear about the decline in bees. I have bees every year," she said. "They're all over these plants." As a master gardener, Cairo picked up many of her sustainable gardening techniques from the training she received through the Lane County Extension Service. Now the extension service is offering sustainable landscape classes for homeowners in a two-day $50 session that includes a variety of topics: water efficiency, mulching and composting, beneficial wildlife habitats, coping with yard pests, planting the right plant in the right place, lawn care, proper and reduced fertilizer applications, storm water runoff Runoff The procedure of printing the end-of-day prices for every stock on an exchange onto ticker tape. Notes: If the "tape is late" then it can take a long time to print off all the closing prices. options and streamside stream·side n. The land adjacent to a stream. care. The class will be taught by master gardeners and will include a landscape evaluation form participants can take home to analyze their yards. Extension office master gardeners will check in later with participants to find out whether they're using the techniques they've learned, said extension service horticulture horticulture [Lat. hortus=garden], science and art of gardening and of cultivating fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants. Horticulture generally refers to small-scale gardening, and agriculture to the growing of field crops, usually on a large agent Ross Penhallegon. Participants also will be given "sustainable yard" signs as a way of encouraging discussion among neighbors, Penhallegon said. The plan has several purposes, besides the training itself. A range of city, state and nonprofit A corporation or an association that conducts business for the benefit of the general public without shareholders and without a profit motive. Nonprofits are also called not-for-profit corporations. Nonprofit corporations are created according to state law. agencies are working collaboratively with the extension office with a goal of being able to measure the sustainable changes people make. Penhallegon hopes for progress, not perfection, he said. If a homeowner cuts back watering from 500 to 400 gallons a month, if someone reduces the amount of fertilizer applied to a lawn, Penhallegon will be happy. He also hopes homeowners come to value the green-gardening techniques so much, he says, that they encourage professional landscapers to adopt more of them. "That's what it's going to take for these changes, getting consumers to advocate for them," he said. GREEN LANDSCAPE Lane County Extension offers new classes What: Sustainable Landscape instruction, 14-hour course When: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Dec. 9-10 Where: 950 W. 13th Ave., Eugene Cost: $50 Register: Online at extension.oregonstate.edu/lane/ or at the extension office, 950 W. 13th Ave. |
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