Thursday, July 11 – Saturday, July 13 – National Children & Youth Garden Symposium
The American Horticultural Society celebrates garden-based teaching and learning at the National Children & Youth Garden Symposium, taking place Thursday, July 11 through Saturday, July 13 at the Denver Botanic Gardens in Denver, Colorado. Registration opens this month, April, 2013. The event will feature keynote addresses by children’s gardening experts, tours of inspiring local gardens, and more than 50 educational sessions. On July 10, participants can select from two pre-symposium tours. One will visit the Gardens on Spring Creek in Fort Collins, Colorado, and Cheyenne Botanic Gardens in Wyoming. The other will take attendees on a behind the scenes tour of three Denver-area school gardens that are part of the Denver Urban Gardens network. For more information, visit www.ahs.org/ncygs or call 703-768-5700, x 137.