What on Earth are you doing for Earth Day?

Earth Day is Sunday, April 22, an annual celebration of the birth of the environmental movement in 1970. It’s an effort to raise awareness of and appreciation for our natural surroundings and increase environmental stewardship.

Rock City Gardens and Reflection Riding Arboretum and Nature Center are hosting events to help you show your love for Mother Earth.

EARTHDAYZ

› Where: Rock City, 1400 Patten Road, Lookout Mountain

› When: 10 a. m.- 5 p.m. Friday-Sunday, April 20-22

› Admission: $ 19.95 adults, $ 11.95 children ages 3-12 › For more informa

tion: 706-820-2531 Rock City is partnering with Orange Grove Center for the 10th year of this outdoor event. EarthDayz focuses on Rock City’s commit- ment to reduce, reuse and recycle.

Visitors will l earn how to use recycled materials to make- andtake a fun activity, can scale a climbing wall at Lover’s Leap or make a rain barrel.

John and Dale Stokes with Wings to Soar will host Rock City Raptors shows at 11 a.m., 1, 3 and 4:30 p.m. each day.

SPRING NATIVE PLANT SALE ›

Where: Reflection

Riding Arboretum & Nature Center, 400 Garden Road

› When: 10 a. m.- 7 p. m. Friday- Saturday, April 20-21. Preview sale for RRANC members today, April 19, 2-7 p.m. ›

Admission: Free; plants priced $7 to $30 › For more informa

tion: 423-821-1160 Choosing the right i ndigenous plant can make less work for a gardener, make the yard look beautiful and support native wildlife.

Learn what’s right for your yard at Reflection Riding Arboretum & Nature Center’s spring plant sale. Nearly 200 varieties of native trees, shrubs and perennials will be for sale. RRANC staff and volunteers will be on hand to answer your questions.

Throughout the day there will be educational talks such as spring wildflower talks at 10 and 11 a.m., native plants and water quality at 12:30 p. m., planting for hummingbirds at 1: 15 p. m., along with a wildflower walk at 2:15 p.m.

The annual plant sale will culminate Saturday with the first Earth Day Festival. The day’s fun starts with the Brow Beater Trail Race, followed by fly-fishing demos, mountain biking, live music, hotair balloon rides (weather permitting), food trucks and s’mores around a campfire that night.

Admission is free to the festival, but a suggested donation of $8 to $20 per guest will help the nonprofit’s conservation efforts.

ROCK CITY GARDENS PHOTO A birds of prey show will be held Friday through Sunday during Rock City’s EarthDayz.