Thursday, 11 August 2011

Places to go: Get ready for fall gardening, and learn about bonsai

Get ready for fall with the Fort Worth Home & Garden Show, 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Saturday and 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Sunday at the Fort Worth Convention Center. Shop for ideas, products and services for gardening, indoor and outdoor spaces, and home remodeling. Tickets are $9.50, $8.50 for seniors and free for children under 14. 1201 Houston St., Fort Worth. For more info and a discount coupon, visit www.texashomeandgarden.com.

Marshall Grain hosts a "Fall Veggie Clinic" at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at the Fort Worth store (2224 E. Lancaster Ave.) and at 1 p.m. at the Grapevine store (3525 William D. Tate Ave. on the Texas 121 service road near the Hall-Johnson exit). Free. More info: 817-416-6600 or 817-536-5636, www.marshallgrain.com.

Calloway's Nursery presents a free clinic Saturday on adding cool splashes of color to your late-summer yard with container gardening. The clinic will begin at 10:15 a.m. at all Calloway's locations. More info: www.calloways.com.

Learn to cook with herbs at Tim's Landscape and Garden Center in Fort Worth. The class is 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. Saturday at 7319 W. Vickery Blvd., Fort Worth. For more info or to reserve a spot, call 817-732-6861.

Register by Tuesday for a class Aug. 20 on square-foot gardening at Clark Gardens Botanical Park. The Celebrate Salad class will show you how to construct a bed, what to plant and when, and how to maintain your garden. Class will be 9 a.m.-noon. $30 per person, $25 for garden members. Go to www.clarkgardens.org to register and to learn about other late-summer classes. 567 Maddux Road, Weatherford, 940-682-4856.

Check out the bonsai show, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday and 1-4 p.m. Sunday in the Fort Worth Botanic Garden's Rose Room. Admission is free. 3220 Botanic Garden Blvd., Fort Worth. More info: www.fwbonsai.com.

Find the perfect table setting and sample the wares from 30 local boutiques and merchants at a special table-setting competition at Dishes From the Past in Fort Worth, now through September. Local boutiques and merchants have decorated tables that are now on display, and shoppers are invited to vote for their favorites. 3701 Lovell Ave., Fort Worth. More info: 800-984-8801, www.dishesfromthepast.com.

Send announcements of local home and garden happenings (including retail news) at least two weeks in advance of the event to Places to Go, Features Department, Star-Telegram, Box 1870, Fort Worth, TX 76101, or send an e-mail to dhunt@star-telegram.com with "Places to Go" in the subject line.

Read more: http://www.star-telegram.com/2011/08/11/3285215/places-to-go-get-ready-for-fall.html#tvg#ixzz1UnLopQN3

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