STEW LEONARD'S GARDEN CENTERS ANNOUNCE FREE SATURDAY MORNING WORKSHOP SCHEDULE

WHAT:
Stew Leonard's Garden Centers are offering free Saturday morning workshops at their Danbury, and Norwalk, Conn. and Yonkers, NY locations. During each one-hour workshop, attendees will learn about lawn and gardening techniques and trends from a Stew Leonard's gardening expert and receive handouts on the topic at hand for home reference.

Stew Leonard's Garden Centers officially open for the season on April 1, offering hundreds of native flowers, vegetable bedding plants, hanging baskets, annuals, trees, and shrubs, plus top-of-the-line tools and products to maintain a healthy and beautiful garden.

The Stew Leonard's principles of friendly, knowledgeable customer service and fresh-from-the-farm foods also apply to the Garden Centers. The gardening staff is eager to help customers and answer questions. Many of the flowers and plants available for purchase are grown on local farms.

SCHEDULE:
Saturday mornings from 9:00 A.M. to 10:00 A.M.

• April 11: Lawn care and maintenance: conventional and organic
• April 18: Organics 101: how the organic ecosystem works
• April 25: Eat your landscape: fruit, vegetable and herb gardens
• May 2: Containers for all gardens, inside and out
• May 16: Summer color: annuals and bulbs that bloom in summer
• May 30: Attract birds and butterflies to your garden
• June 6: Grow perfect roses
• June 13: Low maintenance shrubs that look great
• June 20: Mulch, soils and composting
• June 27: Design a spectacular landscape
• July 11: Plentiful perennials: Care and maintenance
• July 18: Top 10 perennials
• July 25: Everyone loves hydrangeas: how to care for and choose colors
• August 1: Identify and eradicate weeds
• August 8: Keep out…insects, deer and other garden pests
• August 15: Pruning: knowing when and how to trim
• September 26: Think Spring, plant bulbs now
• October 3: Fall and Winter: prepare and protect the garden for Spring

WHERE:
Stew Leonard's Garden Center entrance

CONTACT:
Rachel Begun, Stew Leonard's, 203.750.6107 rbegun@stewleonards.com