Glendale’s Garden Festival – A Free Green Event for the Entire Family

May 3

Come celebrate everything green at the Glendale Garden Festival on May 3. This is an opportunity for the entire family to learn about desert gardening and green living at the award-winning Glendale Xeriscape Demonstration Garden. 

The event includes interactive garden art activities, go green information booths, and entertaining presentations and activities for people of all ages. Adults can learn from the experts about tree care, low-water-use gardening, water harvesting and more. Children can participate in a variety of fun, hands-on activities in the garden and attend a puppet show and magic show about water in the desert.

The Glendale Garden Festival will be held on May 3 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Xeriscape Demonstration Garden surrounding the Glendale Main Library (5959 W. Brown Street, Glendale). The event is free and open to the public. For more details call (623) 930-3535.

Glendale Garden Festival Schedule of Events
May 3, 2008
Glendale Main Library
5959 W. Brown St.

• FREE PLANTS
  In the South Garden
  8:30 a.m. - Show up and receive free plants. Free plants to the first 100 people.
  10 a.m. - Win a free landscape plant package.
  No purchase - just show up for your chance to win.
  
  
• Shows for Children
  in the Auditorium
  10-11 a.m. - Conservation Magic Show, ages 5 to 10 years old
  11 a.m.-noon -  Zoner and the Drip Puppet Show about conservation, Ages 5 to 8 years old
  
  
• Interactive Activities
  at the South entrance of the Library
  9 a.m.-noon
  Art activities - Ages 5 to adult learn about desert plants and animals. Take home plant art that you create.
  Information booths - get a free canvass shopping bag and lots of good information on how to go green.
  Be sure to stop by the “ask a Master Gardener” table.
  
  
• Workshops for Adults
  in the large meeting room
  9:30 – 10:30 a.m. - Using Rain Water in Your Landscape, Brad Lancaster author of Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands
  10:30 – 11:30 a.m. - Care of Trees and Shrubs, Jo Miller co-author of Earth friendly Desert Gardening
  11:30 – 12:30 a.m. - Great Plants for a Great Garden, Jo Cook, Master Gardener
  
  
• Outdoor Classroom Demonstration
  south garden
  10-10:45 a.m. - Cactus Care 101, The Cactus Doctor, Cacti Horticulture Specialist