Grow Your Garden for Less with Seed Collecting

Name: Grow Your Garden for Less with Seed Collecting
Start: 2025-10-23T10:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-10-23T12:00:00-04:00
Location: Mt. Cuba Center

Schedule

Thu Oct 23 2025 at 10:00 am to 12:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Mt. Cuba Center | Hockessin, DE

Date: October 23rd, 2025 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Price: $64
Location: Mt. Cuba Center
3120 Barley Mill Rd, Hockessin, DE 19707
Harvesting seeds is a cost-efficient and exciting way to increase the number of plants in your garden. Learn the best techniques for collecting and storing seeds produced by our native trees, shrubs, and perennials. Following a brief lecture, participants will head out to the gardens for hands-on seed collecting. Take home a diverse array of samples from Mt. Cuba’s gardens.
This program takes place in-person at Mt. Cuba Center Thursday, October 23, 2025 (Rain Date: Thursday, 10/30).
About the Instructor:
Lindsey Laban is the Conservation Propagator at Mt. Cuba Center where she propagates plants for Mt. Cuba’s gardens, natural lands, and conservation partners. She enjoys figuring out how to propagate rare and unusual plants and is fascinated by the different ways plants germinate in nature. Prior to working at Mt. Cuba, Lindsey was the lead horticulturist at Stoneleigh: A natural garden in Villanova, where she also oversaw the greenhouse and nursery operations. When not tending to her plants, Lindsey enjoys bird watching and hiking through the woods.
Register Here: https://mtcubacenter.org/event/grow-your-garden-for-less-with-seed-collecting/
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