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The May workshop at the Arboretum Open House will continue the theme of environmental awareness. We will have a poster and live demo illustrating how composting as can be used as a way of recycling organic material. Emphasis will be on ways that fungi can increase efficiency of home composting. The exhibit is quite spectacular: oyster mushrooms on a coffee grounds substrate.
Posted by: DeCoursey on May 13, 2008 - 10:46 PM
Read full article: 'May 2008 Arboretum Newsletter' (587 more words) Join us for the regular monthly Arboretum Open House from 1-4 pm. Come and enjoy the forest and gardens. Many new features have been completed during the past month and much spring growth of the established plantings is evident.
Posted by: DeCoursey on May 05, 2008 - 05:23 PM
Read full article: 'USC Belser Arboretum Open House, Sunday, May 18' (70 more words) The University of South Carolina, the Friends of the Arboretum, and SFNA will celebrate the 2nd anniversary of the restoration of the Arboretum and host the launch of the USC W. Gordon Belser Arboretum Endowment Campaign on Monday, March 3 from 6pm to 7pm at the Sherwood Forest ARP Church on the corner of Wilmot and Beltline.
Posted by: sherw8 on Feb 27, 2008 - 04:46 PM
Read full article: 'Arboretum 2nd Anniversary and Endowment Campaign Kick Off' (115 more words) Since I was working in Europe most of January, I will cover both January and February in this newsletter. It has been an eventful two months. The fruit of our labor in Fall 2006 and through the dry summer and fall of 2007 is beginning to show.
Posted by: sherw8 on Feb 26, 2008 - 01:36 AM
Read full article: 'February 2008 Arboretum Newsletter' (488 more words) The Belser Arboretum will continue its highly successful monthly Open House program again in 2008. These events are held for the Sherwood Forest Community and other interested individuals on the third Sunday of each month from 1-4 pm. Members of the Sherwood Forest Community and of the USC Arboretum staff will greet visitors at the Bloomwood Gate and the Wilmot Gate; they will help direct you to the points of interest and answer any questions you may have.
Posted by: Marcil on Feb 09, 2008 - 01:02 AM
Read full article: 'Arboretum Open House Programs' (354 more words) Many neighbors have expressed interest in working inside the Belser Arboretum and you now have several good opportunities. Pat Decoursey, the manager, has two projects going that she really needs help with.
Posted by: Marcil on Feb 04, 2008 - 09:22 PM
Read full article: 'Opportunities to Work in the Belser Arboretum' (266 more words) Kudzu is a tenacious vine imported purposely in about 1910 from Japan where it had been used as cattle food. This plant has frequently been called "The cancer of the Earth". In the United States it has engulfed vast areas of rural but also urban sites. Over 7,000,000 acres in the southeastern United States have become wastelands due to kudzu infestation.
Posted by: sherw8 on Dec 01, 2007 - 07:34 PM
Read full article: 'Eliminating Kudzu in the Arboretum and the Neighborhood' (621 more words) The Arboretum has survived the Summer and the drought and features a number of new sights.
Posted by: DeCoursey on Nov 14, 2007 - 03:32 AM
Read full article: 'Arboretum Report November 2007' (771 more words) The regularly scheduled Open House will finally provide a dose of Fall color in the Arboretum. The clinic will be presented by Rosemary Biscardi demonstrating wreath making using wild Muscadine grape vines.
Posted by: sherw8 on Nov 14, 2007 - 03:31 AM
Read full article: 'Arboretum Open House and Clinic, Sunday November 18' (346 more words) USC Arboretum Developments Fall 2007
Posted by: DeCoursey on Oct 23, 2007 - 11:28 PM
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