

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Tips and Tricks from a Wild Gardener
- **Event Start and End Date**: Mon, 20 Apr, 2026 at 06:30 pm – Mon, 20 Apr, 2026 at 08:00 pm (-04:00)
- **Event Description**: Presented by Marty Arnold, author and past River City Chapter President.

6:30–8:00 pm (EDT)
Kroc Center, 2500 Division Ave S, Grand Rapids, MI, 49507
Public Welcome • Free Event

This presentation will cover the following topics:
• Weird and wonderful plant names and how they came to be
• Don’t try this at home—confessions of a self-taught gardener
• What weeds can tell you
• Oh, deer! when Bambi gets hungry
• Plan B exotics! 
• Why have a “PR garden”?
• Your back (and keeping it healthy)
• The best tools of the trade
• What grew in your yard in 1826 (Natural Features Inventory)
• Views from my soapbox
• Foraging

Marty Arnold served as president of WORC and on the national board of Wild Ones. She is currently the chapter’s plant sale chair. Major interests are writing fiction and re-wilding her yard back to the savanna and woodland it once was. Her second novel, Charlotte’s Crossing, is a love story set in West Michigan and a plea to rethink how we landscape and garden today.

Marty’s book will be for sale at the event.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/grand-rapids/tips-and-tricks-from-a-wild-gardener/200029854678343
- **Event Categories**: art, literary-art
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 65

## Ticket Details

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## Event venue details

- **city**: Grand Rapids
- **state**: MI
- **country**: United States
- **location**: GR Kroc Center
- **lat**: 42.918559957385
- **long**: -85.664224121077
- **full address**: GR Kroc Center, Grand Rapids, United States

## Event Organizer details

- **affiliate_id**: 2
- **organizer**: Wild Ones River City-Grand Rapids Area Chapter (https://allevents.in/org/wild-ones-river-city-grand-rapids-area-chapter/12671698)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Mon, 20 Apr, 2026 at 06:30 pm (-04:00)
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** GR Kroc Center, Grand Rapids, United States
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Wild Ones River City-Grand Rapids Area Chapter
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** art, literary-art
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Tips and Tricks from a Wild Gardener ?
  - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents.

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