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Continuous The Great Sunflower Project
We have just launched “The Great Sunflower Project, a community science project with the goal of increasing our understanding of where bees are doing poorly and how the pollination of our garden and wild plants are being affected. We’re hoping you will join us by planting sunflowers in your garden. Community, demonstration, and school gardens are invited to participate.
We will send you some free native sunflower (Helianthus annuus) seed and twiche a month, we’d like you to time how long it takes for 5 bees to visit one flower on that sunflower. This information will give us an index of pollination that we can compare across the United States. Once we know where bees are in trouble, we can start developing a plan to help them.
You can see the details about the project and register at www. greatsunflower.org or contact us at sfbee@sfsu.edu.
Do join us! Thank you!
Gretchen LeBuhn
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June 18 - 21 Southern Region Master Gardener Conference, Oklahoma City
Dear Master Gardener,
The Southern Region Master Gardener Conference is not far away. Realizing that many budgets are probably very tight right now, we have decided to extend the early registration deadline to May 23. We would like everyone who has a desire to attend to be able to do so and feel that extending the deadline will allow some flexibility in budgeting and planning for the conference.
Consider joining us for this grand event! We have some first class garden tours scheduled, many fantastic topics and speakers, a trade show, a Trivial Bowl Game (to quiz your knowledge), and a wonderful evening full of more garden viewing, a stroll through the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum, excellent food and captivating entertainment. If you feel so inclined to don the cowboy apparel that evening, please feel free to do so. There are also many exciting things going on in the Oklahoma City area and on Thursday night you will have the opportunity to choose from river boat rides, eating at some excellent restaurants, strolling through the Downtown Bricktown area, including a visit to the Myriad Botanical Garden and Crystal Bridge and much more!
Attached is a flier with more information about the conference. Please take a look at it and share with a friend.
We look forward to seeing you all there as we host this grand event!
Happy Gardening!
David Hillock
Assistant Extension Specialist
Consumer Horticulture
State Master Gardener Coordinator
Department of Horticulture & Landscape Architecture
Oklahoma State University
358 Ag Hall
Stillwater, OK 74078-6027
405-744-5158
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