Celebrate earth day with lots of garden activities: plant swap, free clippings, garden tours and lots more. Event is FREE. See full description below!

We invite you to celebrate Earth Day with us.  We will be offering an exciting array of activities for all ages:

• Garden Tours
• Story Trail Walk
• House Plant Swap 
• Garden Plants, Tools, and Accessories Swap
• Free plant clippings
• Master Gardener Plant Clinic: Bring photos of plants or garden conditions 
• Compost Bins
• RainScape Information
• BeeKeeping

Speaking Events:

2:00 PM  Compost demonstration

2:30 PM  Beekeeping

3:00 PM  Tree care

3:30 PM  Rainscapes

Important Information for Swapping: 

General Info: Both the plant and garden swap will be on a rolling basis, meaning items will be coming in and swapped throughout the duration of the event as visitors come and go. Donations to the Literary Garden are appreciated but not required to participate in either swap.

Garden Plant Swap:

Description:  Divide or remove plants from your garden to exchange for other donated plant material.  Native plants transplanted from the Literary Garden as well as from the gardens of other participants will be available.

Guidelines:  Pot up plants a few days to one week before the swap to help ensure the plants’ health and limit transplant shock before the event.  All plants should be labeled at minimum with latin and common names, but all other known information such as height, width, light requirements (sun/shade/etc), soil preferences (wet/dry/sandy, etc), deer tolerance and other relevant info is helpful. 

No invasive plants please!!!

Types of plants we will take are:

• Natives
• Perennials
• Woody Trees and Shrubs
• Edibles such as tomatoes and other veggies, fruiting plants, and herbs
• Annuals
• Bulbs
• Any other non-invasive-non-natives will also be accepted
  *Please no invasives such as english ivy, vinca, nandina, etc.!!!!

Garden Tools and Accessories Swap:

Description: Bring extra or unwanted garden tools and accessories to exchange for items brought to the event by other participants.

Guidelines: Items must be in working and non-broken condition, wiped off and cleared of spider webs and excessive debris.

Possible ideas to bring to the swap include but are not limited to:

• Unbroken ceramic and terra cotta pots
• Garden gloves (unused)
• Hand tools such as hand trowel, hori horis, claws, clippers, pruners, etc.
• Shovels, rakes, tampers, etc.
• Tub trugs, buckets, harvest baskets
• Watering Cans
• Electric power tools (no gasoline please), preferably with accompanying battery packs/power cables when possible
• Garden decor such as concrete statues, rain chains, wind chimes, decorative signs, trellises and obelisks
• Hoses, hose reels, watering wands
• Trellises/vine supports
• Outdoor lighting such as solar string lights or stake lights
• Kneelers/knee pads
• Plant markers/labels
• Bird houses, bird feeders, unopened bird seed (thoroughly cleaned to help prevent the spread of bird flu)
• Anything else garden related you think someone else could use and enjoy! 

The program will be outdoors around the library garden and the grounds of the library.  If it rains, we will move into our meeting room on the basement level.  

Bring bags and boxes to carry away all the goodies to take home!!!

Everyone gets to participate.  Rain or shine!  FREE

Sponsored by Friends of the Library, Montgomery County.

Accommodation Requests

People who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing should request English-language captioning or sign-language interpretation at least five days before the library-sponsored program they plan to attend. Contact the Assistant Facilities and Accessibility Program Manager at 240-777-0002 with all other accommodation requests.