When spring comes closer and the return of this familiar itching that gardeners tend to do at this time of year, you know that the western landscape symposium is located around the corner.
This year the symposium will take place on Saturday, March 29, at the Pueblo Community College and will take place from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. In the planning committee, we are pleased to tell that our main speaker is known this year garden author and podcaster, Jennifer Jewell. She will talk about “what we sow to maintain our places”. This lecture deals with topics from your third book, which we sow, which researches the condition of the seeds both literally and metaphorically in our world.
Jennifer deals with endless fascinating topics in her podcast 'Culture Place', which offers over 400 episodes for us gardeners. On this extensive background and your own experience, your lecture this year will serve to inspire and inspire and inspire gardeners and cultivating people in their gardening work and to make themselves as critical of this kind of work in our world as high as high as How high like everything we do in our lives.
This year, Ms. Jewell is accompanied by a purely female line -up of speakers as an allusion to the month of women's history. We look forward to welcoming Irene Shonle, Grace Johnson, Michelle Nelson and Idelle Fisher as our meeting speakers.
Irene Shonle, recently retired and much loud specialist for horticulture from the CSU expansion in El Paso County, will organize a session in which unused local plants covered for the landscape. This lecture focuses on great plant options that do not find enough in our farms. It will focus on plants from South Colorado that are well adjusted to cope with our current and future conditions when the effects of climate change change over time.
Grace Johnson competes with Chatfield Farms, an expansion of the Denver Botanic Gardens. It will share a hand -picked series of plants to create beautiful, functional, pollarment -friendly plant designs and gardens. In order to create the list, every plant had to be well stunned, well adapted, sustainable, drought -tolerant and/or for pollinators. It will also be sure that you share maintenance tips to keep these systems in the best form.
Next comes Michelle Nelson, a specialist in soil health in the Colorado Department of Agriculture. The soil plays an important role in the success of our plantings and the general health of our ecosystems. She is pleased to share the 5 main principles of soil health and the application of the most important 6. Principle, the context, to all of them for the application in our landscapes.
This year's meetings is the presentation of Idelle Fisher about “all year round garden garden: eating more”. Idelle is a garden author and blogger who runs an organic community garden in Denver and maintains her own large organic landscape and garden at home. She focuses on pollares and local plants and enjoys working voluntarily with PPAN and Front Range Wilde. Make it with her to extend your vegetation period and harvest the rewards.
This year, the spectators have the opportunity to visit a variety of information, demonstrations and suppliers -Sables during the lunch break, which lasts from 11.45 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. As an entertaining addition to this year's offer, a demonstration of the local documentary Mirasol takes place at 12:30 p.m. Please note that the lunch tickets are not sold this year, but the lunch break is available on site or that the participants can bring their own lunch to the event. Tickets are sold quickly. So go to 2025wls.eventbrite.com to secure your place.
To learn more about the event and see our list of sponsors, you can visit Pueblo.Extension.colostate.edu/programs/garding-horticulture/western-landscape-s-ymposium/ and click on the blue links over the logo.
While the symposium has been a favorite for years of both Pueblo residents and visitors from the whole of the state, we could not start this excellent educational event without our planning committee. The committee consists of representatives of the CSU Extension-Pueblo County, the Pueblo Zoo, the Colorado Master Gardener, the Pueblo Food Project and Pueblo Schön.
We hope to see you on March 29!
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Amanda Weidner
Amanda Weidner is the horticultural specialist in the Pueblo County CSU-Extension Office. It can be reached at 719-583-6581 and Weidnera@puebloCounty.us.
This article originally appeared on the Pueblo Chieftain: Weidner: The 17th Western Landscape Symposium