In 2019, we’ll celebrate 10 years of the Mount Holly Garden Series!
The Downtown Dames sponsor gardening lectures in beautiful Mount Holly Cemetery at 9:00 A.M. the third Saturday morning, April through October. Bring a lawn chair and enjoy the beauty of Little Rock’s oldest cemetery, dating to 1843. The Downtown Dames suggest a donation of $5.00 per person to benefits projects at Mount Holly Cemetery. The Downtown Dames provide refreshments and door prizes!
2019 Presentations:
April 20: “Azalea….. the Queen of Spring” – Ronnie Palmer
May 18: “A Spring Chocolate Tasting” ( History and Trends In Chocolate Making ) – Margo Rowe and Pat Luzzi
June 15: “Japanese Koi…Exotic Fish from an Exotic Land” – Mark Gibson (Mark will also have locally grown, organic blueberries and blackberries for sale)
July 20: “The Late Blooming Rose Gardener” – Cindy Strauss
August 17: “Gardening on a Shoestring: Money saving tips for your garden” – Susan Rose.
September 21: “Culinary Herbs: How to Choose, Grow, and Use!” – Holly Wyman
October 19: “Following Thomas Nuttall : 200 Years Later” – Theo Whitsell, Ecologist and Botanist, Department of Natural Heritage. (Nuttall was an English botanist and zoologist who lived and worked in America from 1808 until 1841. Although Lewis and Clark had traveled this way previously many of their specimens had been lost. Therefore, many of the plants collected by Nuttall on this trip were unknown to science. Come and hear Mr. Theo Whitsell, as he shares Mr. Nuttall’s Arkansas discoveries!)