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All are welcome to attend the Allen Garden Club meeting at 7 pm on Thursday, September 6 at the Allen Heritage Center, 100 E Main St., Allen to learn about Plant Propagation from Collin County Master Gardener, Sherrian Jones. Learn how to start new plants from seed, cuttings, division and layering. This event is free and open to anyone in the Allen area interested in learning more about gardening in Texas. Refreshments will be served. Visit www.allengardenclub.org for more information or call (972) 390-8536. 

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All are welcome to learn about the basics of floral design at the next meeting of the Allen Garden Club on Thursday, August 2 at 7:00 PM. Natalie Meehan, floral design expert from 1-800-Flowers in Allen will demonstrate basic floral design, how to use flowers from your garden in an arrangement, and explain from where and how they get their supply of flowers. Our meeting is held at the Allen Heritage Center, 100 E. Main St. Allen, TX 75002. All are welcome and refreshments will be served. Visit www.allengardenclub.org for more information. 

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All are welcome to attend the next Allen Garden Club meeting at 7 pm, Thursday, June 7 at the Allen Heritage Center. We will learn about beneficial and pest insects that can be found in the garden from Gail Donaldson, City of Allen Water Conservation Manager as she talks about "Good Bug, Bad Bug." Gail will talk about beneficial insects, pests, how to recognize the good bugs, and methods to manage the pests. This is a free event and refreshments will be served. Visit www.allengardenclub.org for more information or email allengardenclub@yahoo.com. 

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Come join us at 7 pm, Thursday, March 1 at the Allen Heritage Center, 100 E. Main St., Allen to learn about the history of our Blackland Prairie region of Texas. Carol Clark, Texas Master Naturalist and Collin County Chapter of the Texas Native Plant Society President will present "The Blackland Prairie: Then and Now." This is a peek into the past at what kinds of amazing plants, animals, soil, hydrology  and conditions the first European settlers encountered when they reached this area, and how human activity in the region has permanently altered this region. There is far less than one tenth of percent the original Blackland Prairie remaining in its original un-plowed state, and it is one of the rarest and most threatened eco-regions in the world. All are welcome and refreshments will be served. Visit our website for more information: allengardenclub.org 
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The 7th Allen Garden Club Tour showcases a variety of landscape options

The Allen Garden Club will showcase beautiful and unique landscapes at local homes during its 7th garden tour on Saturday, June 4. The tour is from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. and will be held rain or shine. 

Each garden features something a little different—from shade gardening and vegetable gardening to a certified wildlife habitat with a beautiful selection of native and adapted plants, says club president Denise Webre. 

Also on the tour are the trial gardens at the Allen Public Library, which were created along with the Collin County Master Gardeners. “There are many environmental challenges in North Texas and trial gardens allow us to grow and evaluate a variety of plants to see how they hold up to the soil, sudden drops in temperatures, extreme heat of summer and varied rainfall.” Denise explains. 

Guests are invited to go at their own pace to visit the gardens, which are located in Allen and Parker. Each tour spot will feature free seeds and bottled water, as well as baskets filled with garden and gifts items that will be raffled off. Raffle tickets will be sold at each garden for $1 each or six for $5. 

Tour ticket booklets will be available throughout May and up until the day of the tour at Puckett's Nursery and Landscape, 811 East Main St. in Allen for a $10 donation to the garden club.

Funds raised from the tour will be used for community service projects and the Helen M. Logan Allen Garden Club scholarship for Allen High School seniors planning to get a degree in a horticulture-related field. 

The mission of the Allen Garden Club is to: educate the community about natural gardening practices and the benefits of gardening, encourage people to conserve natural resources, and participate in community service projects. The club meets at 7 p.m. on the first Thursday of every month (except January and July) at the Allen Heritage Center Train Depot, 100 E. Main Street in downtown Allen. 

 For more information, visit www.allengardenclub.org or contact Denise Webre, AGC President at 972.390.8536 or allengardenclub@yahoo.com.