Water and Your Garden is the topic of a new gardening class in Ridgefield Continuing Education. Participants can learn to become rain stewards. Garden and landscape can affect the quality of water leaving a property. Participants will learn how a landscape can become a positive part of the water cycle by incorporating design elements like water features, rain gardens, buffer plantings, and dry stream beds. Rainwater capture and use, green roofs, alternatives to lawns, wildlife and environmental issues affecting water will also be discussed.
Instructor Laura Stabell is a master gardener, arborist, horticulturist, and naturalist. She is also a landscape gardener whose work has been featured in magazines and on the Garden Conservancy open garden tour. She founded and directs the Saugatuck River Watershed Association. The class meets Tuesday, April 21, from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Venus Building (former high school). Cost is $31. Advance registration required. Visit ridgefieldschools.org or phone Peggy Bruno at 203-431-2812.