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Please call: 801-581-8454
Email: education@redbutte.utah.edu
Tuesdays, September 3 & 10
5:30-7:30pm
Join Red Butte Garden’s botanist, Neal Dombrowski 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!
Get to know your instructor:
Neal is originally from Massachusetts and has been in Utah for over 22 years. He attended Weber State University and earned his undergraduate degree in Botany and a minor in Geosciences. He worked many jobs before using his education as a Contractor with the Department of Defense at Hill Air Force Base and Dugway Proving Ground in the Natural Resources Departments. Neal has been full time with Red Butte Garden since 2010 as a botanist and horticulturist in the Entrance Gardens, Natural Area, Cottam’s Grove, and Water Pavilion. He has a passion for non-native plant control and restoring native habitats.
Neal lives in Salt Lake City with his best friend Rue, a Belgian shepherd, and enjoys remote glamping, live music, mental health exercises, and human connections.
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.