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Meetings are held on the first Thursday of each month from February through December at 7:00 PM at the Allen Heritage Center Train Depot at 100 East Main Street in Allen (unless otherwise noted here on our calendar). See the following dates for meeting information:

March 6 - City of Allen Arbor Day Celebration - Join AGC members and community to plant trees at Story Park. Festivities start at 9 am. Bring your shovels and garden gloves!

April 1 - Spring Plant Swap - Bring divisions of plants from your gardens and take home new plants for your gardens. Plants should be in containers. Seeds should be in envelopes.

April 10 - EarthFest 2010 at Watters Creek (SW corner of Bethany and Highway 75) - Come visit our booth to make butterflies with the kids and pick up some garden tip sheets. AGC members will be available to answer your garden questions.

April 18 - "Wildscaping Your Backyard" at Connemara from 2-4 pm - AGC members are asked to help children and their families pot up native plant seedlings to start their own backyard wildscape garden.

May 6 - Texas Wildscapes, by Denise Webre, AGC President - Learn about creating a Texas backyard habitat using plants native to our region and how to apply for a Texas Wildscapes certification.

June 3 - Tree Care and Planting by Richard Langford, certified arborist - Come and learn about proper pruning techniques, planting and other tree tips from a local tree expert.

July 1 - No meeting.

August 5 - TBA

September 2 - TBA

September 25 - Fall Festival / Community Plant Swap at The Villages at Allen - Divide and bring your plants in containers. Seeds should be in envelopes. Please label all your plants and seeds.

October 7 - TBA

November 4 - TBA

November 6 - Texas Recycles Day

December - AGC members Holiday Potluck

We are in the process of scheduling meeting topics for 2010 and will post more information as it becomes available.

If there is a gardening topic you would like to hear about, please send us an e-mail and we will work to get it on our schedule.
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