SUMMER SPRING 2020 2019 Education
BRINGING THE GARDENS TO YOUR HOME While Staying at Home Staff Created Opportunity for Hands-On Learning Our in-person education programs and public events may have been on hold during March, April and May but our education, programming and horticultural staff at Myriad Botanical Gardens and Scissortail Park created free seed starting kits for local children and their families. The kits offered fun and educational activities about the art and science of growing plants. Three types of kits were made available with materials to grow three individual plants in each. A springtime kit featured Easter eggs filled with seed paper. Tomato, cilantro and sweet pepper seeds were included in the salsa kit, and seeds to grow zinnia, marigold and fennel plants to attract pollinators were included in a third kit. The kits were offered on three separate Fridays in April and May. Videos with step-bystep instructions were on the Gardens website, along with related items.
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Photo by Doug Hoke
Youth Educator Coordinator Lily Peppers waves hello during seed kit pick-up at the Gardens. Above, seed paper from the Springtime seed kit.
