Community Landscape Specialist Christina Hoyt has designed waterwise projects all across Nebraska. This presentation will be aimed at helping homeowners create and manage more efficient and resilient landscapes.

It is part of a brown bag series on all things green sponsored by the Nebraska Statewide Arboretum, UNL Department of Agronomy/Horticulture, UNL Garden Friends and Friends of Maxwell Arboretum. The noon presentation will be repeated later that day at 5:30 p.m.

Event sponsors hope to bring together a community of on- and off-campus people who care about the environment. There will be time for discussion at each session and, when weather permits, time to walk through the campus landscape.

Future topics include “Trees and Shrubs that Survive the Heat” on August 7 at Morrill Hall and “Vegetables and the Edible Landscape” on September 4 in Keim Hall. These sessions will be held at noon and repeated at 5:30 p.m. the same day.

Participants are invited to bring lunch or dinner, if desired, and ideas or questions. For more information about the brown bag series, call the Arboretum at 402-472-2971, email arboretum@unl.edu or visit http://arboretum.unl.edu/.