FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
18 April 2012
Museum Contact: John White, Curator
Email: jmwhite@utep.edu
Phone: 915-747-5335
Dr. David Anderson to Speak at Annual Native Plant Sale, FloraFEST
El Paso, Texas – Area gardeners
are awaiting the chance to purchase plants for desert landscaping
naturally. FloraFEST, the annual plant
sale, features hundreds of plants native to the Chihuahuan Desert or plants that
are desert adapted. Proceeds from the
annual sale support the operation of the Chihuahuan Desert Gardens. This botanic collection, displaying some 700
different species and horticultural cultivars, is dedicated to the flora of the
Chihuahuan Desert region. The collection
represents the largest public assemblage of Chihuahuan desert plants in the
world.
Guest
speaker, Dr. David Anderson will be featured at this year’s FloraFEST Lecture
Series. David Lee Anderson is Land Manager
and botanist at White Sands Missile Range since 1990. He completed his
PhD in Range Ecology in 1989 at New Mexico State University. Prior to that,
he worked in Argentina as national coordinator of range research for 20 years.
He worked for the U.S. Forest Service in Idaho, Utah and New Mexico on and off
between 1956 and 1963.
Dr. Anderson
will speak on Friday, April 27, 2012 at 7 pm in Room 116 of the Undergraduate
Learning Center on the University of Texas at El Paso campus. A reception will follow at the Centennial
Museum and Chihuahuan Desert Gardens located at the corner of University Ave.
and Wiggins Rd. on the UTEP campus. The
El Paso Native Plant Society, The West Texas Urban Forestry Council, and the
Centennial Museum sponsor this event.
Regular museum hours are Tuesday
to Saturday from 10 am to 4:30 pm. For more information, contact the Centennial
Museum at 915-747-5565 or www.museum.utep.edu.
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