Garden goes green for annual gala

File Photo/BEN GOFF @NWABENGOFF Megan Lankford (right), Botanical Garden of the Ozarks horticulture supervisor, talks about caring for succulent plants during a "Succulent Make and Take" class at the Botanical Garden of the Ozarks in Fayetteville. Participants learned how to care for the water-conserving plants native to arid climates and made their own arrangement to take home.
File Photo/BEN GOFF @NWABENGOFF Megan Lankford (right), Botanical Garden of the Ozarks horticulture supervisor, talks about caring for succulent plants during a "Succulent Make and Take" class at the Botanical Garden of the Ozarks in Fayetteville. Participants learned how to care for the water-conserving plants native to arid climates and made their own arrangement to take home.

The Botanical Garden of the Ozarks will hold the 24th annual Greening of the Garden Gala on May 3 at the garden in Fayetteville. McDonald's Restaurants' Bette and Walter Mathews and Vickie and Bill Mathews are this year's honorary chairmen.

The evening will include dinner on the great lawn, drinks, live jazz and live and silent auctions. Organizers say proceeds will go to help fulfill the mission to "Learn, Play, Grow."

Greening of the Garden Gala

Who: Botanical Garden of the Ozarks

What: Dinner, bar, music, auction

When: 6 p.m. May 3

Where: The garden in Fayetteville

Tickets: $125 or $1,200 for a table for 10

Information: (479) 750-2620 or bgozarks.org

The Botanical Garden is a public garden dedicated to education and environmental awareness and serves as a community destination for unique nature experiences.

The garden sees more than 18,000 schoolchildren each year through field trips, classes and programs about wild plants, animals in the garden and other garden-related topics.

Adult classes and workshops have covered such topics as mushroom cultivation, photography, qi gong, sustainability, rain barrels and propagation.

-- CARIN SCHOPPMEYER

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NAN Our Town on 04/18/2019

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