Durham Grown: The Durham County Library Garden Club
Durham Grown: The Durham County Library Garden Club
- Date:
- Saturday, March 29, 2025
- Time:
- 2:00pm - 4:00pm
- Location:
- Main Library - Outdoors - Amphitheatre
- Location:
- Main Library (300 N. Roxboro St)
- Audience:
- Adult DPS Elementary School Emerging Adult: 18-24 Year Olds High School Intergenerational Kindergarten Middle School Pre-School Senior Citizen Teen Toddler Tweens: 9-12 Year Olds
- Categories:
- Durham Environmental Food & Cooking Gardening Health & Fitness Social
Spring Community Plant Swap!
Join the Durham All-Skills Gardening Group and Durham County Extension Master Gardener volunteers for a Spring Community Plant Swap! Bring your perennials, saplings, shrubs, bulbs, houseplant cuttings, and seeds to swap and share with other local gardeners! Have all your gardening questions answered by Durham County Extension Master Gardeners! Check out the Digging Durham Seed Library resources and seeds! Community partner Panther Creek Forest Farm will be providing native trees. Spring is for planting and sharing!
The swap will be held between 2-4 p.m. at the Main Library located at 300 North Roxboro Street in the outdoor amphitheatre located off the lower-level parking lot.
Please bring your own boxes or bags for transporting plants. A marker, painters' tape or tags, and small bags or envelopes are also helpful at plant swaps.
Parking is available in the library lot or at the North Queen Street Garage (115 North Queen Street) which is located directly across the street from the library behind the apartments under construction.
Extension Master Gardener Volunteers of Durham County
Registration is appreciated to determine the amount of people that might attend and to receive an email reminder about the event.
Questions? Please email mkoslofsky@dconc.gov
Before the plant swap Mellow Marsh Farm will be presenting Weeds and Wildflowers: Native Plants, Healthy Ecosystems, People, Planet at 11:30 am at the Main Library located at 300 North Roxboro Street in the Maker Lab on the first floor.
Join Mellow Marsh Farm for a discussion on the importance of incorporating native plants into our home garden environments. We’ll define terms such as native, non-native, invasive, nativar, and eco-type, discuss a few recommended species and cultivation techniques, as well as share resources on how you can get involved and bring native plants to your own garden community.
Mellow Marsh Farm is a native plant nursery founded in 1997, and currently operating on 40 acres in Silk Hope near Siler City, NC. Mellow Marsh Farm has a deep foundation in ecology and conservation. All of their plants are wild-type, southeastern native species: they do not grow cultivars or non-native plants. They propagate mostly from seed collected in the Carolinas and Virginia to ensure local provenance and strong genetic diversity, with a specific focus on plants related to wetland mitigation, stream restoration, stormwater ponds, rain gardens, and pollinator habitats.
Mellow Marsh Farm is a wholesale nursery and cannot accommodate onsite shopping or unscheduled visits. For more information on the nursery, their story, and available plants, please visit their website: Mellow Marsh Farm
More information and registration here:
Weeds and Wildflowers: Native Plants, Healthy Ecosystems, People, Planet