GARDEN CALENDAR
TUESDAYS SUNDAYS The Mercer Society Gift and Plant Shoppe
10 a.m.-4 p.m. Tuesdays Saturdays, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Sundays at 400 Main, Old Town Spring; 281651-5475, themercersociety.org. Sales proceeds benefit flood-damaged Mercer Botanic Gardens.
SATURDAY Urban Harvest’s Waste Not, Want Not …
Bokashi and Vermicomposting: 9:30-11:30 a.m. at University of Houston Downtown, 201 Girard; register at 713-880-5540 or urbanharvest.org/ classes-calendar. $30.
SATURDAYSUNDAY Weekend Market
9 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday at Another Place in Time, 1102 Tulane; 713-8649717. Free.
THURSDAY Fall Vegetable Gardening
Harris County Master Gardeners’ Green Thumb Series: 6:30-8:30 p.m. at Freeman Branch Library, 16616 Diana Lane; 713274-0950, hcmga.tamu.edu. Free.
Gardening With Local Native Plants
How Houstonians
Are Doing It: With Katy Emde. Native Plant Society of Texas-Houston Chapter event. 6:458:30 p.m. at the Houston Arboretum and Nature Center, West Loop N. access road before Woodway Drive; npsot.org/houston. Free.
FRIDAY-AUG. 19 Weekend Market
10 a.m.-5 p.m. Friday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Aug. 18, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Aug. 19 at Another Place in Time, 1102 Tulane; 713-864-9717. Free.
AUG. 18 Bonsai
With Galveston County Master Gardener Clyde Holt. 9-11 a.m. at Galveston County AgriLife Extension, 4102-B Main, La Marque; register at 281-309-5065 or aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/galveston/index.html. $25 fee to cover materials.
Plumeria Class
With Jim Maas and Loretta Osteen. 10 a.m. at Maas Nursery, 5511 Todville, Seabrook; 281-474-2488, maasnursery.com. $25.
Carnivorous Plants
10 a.m. at Jesse H. Jones Park and Nature Center, 20634 Kenswick, Humble; 281-446-8588, hcp4.net/ community/parks/jones. Free.
Fall Tomatoes With Urban Harvest
10 a.m. at Buchanan’s Native Plants, 611 E. 11th; 713-861-5702, RSVP at buchanansplants.com. Free.
REGISTRATION OPEN Wildscapes Workshop
Native Plant Society of Texas - Houston Chapter event. 8 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Sept. 22 at Houston Community College, 5601 West Loop S.; registration at npsot.org/wp/houston/ wildscapes-workshop, $35-$40.