Chinese Medicinal Plants in the Garden

Last Friday in the garden - Dr. Louise Kaplan, director of SMU's new nursing program, brought visiting students from Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine to plant medicinal herbs and shrubs in the SMU's Learning Garden.

from Dr. Jie, Xu (Daisy) list of medicinal plants for the garden

Thanks to visiting professor Dr. Jie, Xu (Daisy) who compiled the list of medicinal plants for us to get and to  all of the students who volunteered to go to the market, find the starts and to plant our first Chinese medicinal herbs for future classes to enjoy.

Students from Shanghai University. Left to right in front: Chen Luhua (Pearl), Zhu Liangbo (Cream), Huang Zhiwei (Simple), Zhang Zhuhui(Vicky),Chen Lin (Lin), and Zhao Xiyue (CiCi). Left-far back: Xie Yingfang (Catherine) and Shen Dan (Ivy)  Mr. Lee, the chaperone, is the farthest back.

 SMU's ESL students are currently working on information cards to go with the plants!

Shanghai student, Zhang Zhuhui (Vicky), watering the Ginkgo after planting

Ginkgo (pictured above) is an especially good medicine for a university garden as it helps with memory and concentration!

Micro-irrigation continued

setting up micro-irrigation

This is a continuation of last week’s workshop. Newcomers welcome. You did not have to have come to the last workshop to attend this one. Rebeca will continue setting up the micro-irrigation system. Come and learn how it works!

Garden Party Workshop

Micro-sprinkling for a small garden

The Learning Garden (just outside of the cafeteria)

Thursday, July 19

11am-1pm

Learn about how to set up a water-saving small scale irrigation system. You can do this at home. It’s inexpensive and saves you water and time. Learn by helping set up our own micro-sprinklers in the garden beds. It’s so easy you will be amazed.

Everyone is welcome! Workshop led by local gardener Rebeca Potasnik

Also, come taste the ripe berries and take some herbs home – there are still raspberries in the garden and fresh oregano and mint!

Workshop drip-irrigation for a small garden

Where: In the Learning Garden (just outside of the cafeteria)
When: Thursday, July 12 11am-1pm

Local gardener Rebeca Potasnik will teach a workshop on how to set up a water-saving small scale drip irrigation system. You can do this at home. It’s inexpensive and saves you water and time. Learn by helping set up our own micro-sprinklers in the garden beds. It’s so easy you will be amazed. Everyone is welcome! The workshop is free.

drip irrigation