Anchorage Daily News

CLASSES, CLUBS

Anchorage Garden Club: Rain gardens are the topic at this meeting, 7 tonight, Pioneer School House, 437 E. Third Ave. (566-0539)

Tryck Gardens and Nursery: Take guided tours of the gardens with themes, 6:30-8 p.m. Fridays through September, Tryck Gardens and Nursery, Rabbit Creek Road. This week's theme is "Landscape to Attract Birds." Call for reservations; nonperishable food accepted for the Food Bank. (345-2507)

Dahlias, cole crops and floral design: Join a workshop and learn to grow, exhibit and judge blooms, 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday-Sunday. Call to register and for more details. (566-0539, communitynews.adn.com/agclub)

Wildflower Garden Club: Making cards with pressed plants workshop, 10 a.m. Sept. 11, Central Lutheran Church, 1420 Cordova St. Bring your pressed flowers, glue and scissors. (277-7150)

Citizens Against Noxious Weeds Invading the North: monthly meeting, 3:30 p.m. Sept. 11, Bureau of Land Management Field Office, 6881 Elmore Rd. (245-2373, AKCANWIN@Aol.com)

COMING UP

ALPAR and the Alaska Botanical Garden will host the annual Nursery Pot Recycling from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sept. 20 in the Benny Benson School parking lot just north of the Alaska Botanical Garden, south of Tudor Road on Campbell Airstrip Road. Only plastic garden container with the resin numbers 2, 5 or 7 can be recycled. Those numbers will be in a triangle on the bottom of the container. Shake the loose soil out or rinse the pots, remove metal hangers and stack same-size pots. Nonrigid containers like cell packs or the small No. 6 pots can't be recycled, but the others will be sent south and turned into plastic lumber or other plastic products.

ONGOING EVENTS

Discovery Duffels: Families and groups with kids ages 4-9 can check out a duffel bag containing activities for kids, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Tuesdays-Saturdays through Sept. 27, Alaska Botanical Garden, 4601 Campbell Airstrip Road. Free; you must surrender a driver's license while you have the bag. (770-3692, www.alaskabg.org.

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