Gene Jezek
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April
17 - Controlling Predators
Gene Jezek, owner of Critter Control of St. Louis,
and speaker for our April meeting, will give us
some techniques for handling those pesky critters
that find their way into our ponds and gardens.
His topic "Controlling Predators," will
include information about predators that attack
flowers and plants as well as those often described
as the pond-owners' nightmare-heron, mink and
raccoons. The meeting is Tuesday, April 17 at
7 p.m. at the Commerce Bank Center for Science
Education (CBEC), 4651 Shaw Avenue, off Kingshighway.
The program is open to everyone (no charge). Hope
to see you there! |
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Be a Jewel Box Volunteer
Calling all volunteers! The new season of
work at the Jewel Box in Forest Park is about
to begin. Each year, the St. Louis Water Gardening
Society places a variety of water lilies and
other aquatic plants in the Jewel Box pools
then meets regularly to maintain them.
The first step is to retrieve the hardy water
lilies that have spent the winter in the mud-bottomed
pond in the park, identify, divide and replant
them as needed, and then place them in the pools.
That first step will take place Saturday, May
5, beginning at 9 a.m. Volunteers with waders,
shovels, cutting tools (hachets, machetes, etc.),
rakes and wheelbarrows or carts will be needed.
This is a good day to volunteer, since there
are likely to be leftover divisions of hardy
lilies for the taking.
On Saturday, June 2, volunteers will meet to
plant tropical water lilies and to retrieve
tropical canna, taro, and other plants from
the Forest Park greenhouse where they have spent
the winter.
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Jewel Box
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