BLOOMS DAY 2010

With Keynote Speaker Teri Knight

Saturday, May 15, 2010
8:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Kenny Community School
5720 Emerson Avenue South
Minneapolis

We invite you to this spectacular event — where you can find inspiration from the latest ideas in landscaping and gardening. We have put together a wonderful gardening time for you:

• Teri Knight, Dakota Master Gardener and Host of Garden Bite on 102.9 Lite FM, will present the keynote speech on this year's theme Beauty Boosters.
• Celebrate the top Minneapolis gardens.
• Attend a workshop on:
  1. Designing for Foliage, presented by Heidi Heiland, Chief Experience Officer and founder of Heidi's Lifestyle Gardens.
  2. Garden Style Designs, presented by Gunda Luss, Hennepin County Master Gardener.
  3. Fast Landscape Plantings in the Aftermath of Emerald Ash Borer, presented by Tom Faust, Manager of Bachman's Landscape Department.
  4. Raingarden Maintenance, presented by Laura Domyancich, Restoration Ecologist and Nurturing Crew Leader for EnergyScapes.
• Peruse Exhibitors. 
• Bid on wonderful silent auction items.
• Shop at Metro Blooms' Plant Sale. Plants include Rusty Schmidt's favorite raingarden natives, as well as donated perennial thinnings, vegetables and more! Donate thinnings from your garden and receive 20% off of your purchase of plants.
• Ask questions of the Hosta Society, Lily Society, and other plant societies.

If interested in being an exhibitor at Blooms Day 2010, please contact Julie Gilbertson at pugnut473@aol.com.