For Immediate Release
February 10, 2009

Learn how to grow orchids at home this spring in UCR Extension's class, "Anyone Can Grow Orchids"

RIVERSIDE, Calif. – Forget the myth that orchids are hard to grow. The flowers might be fragile, but the plants themselves are rather hardy and many species can be grown indoors on a windowsill. Learn how to grow orchids in the class, Anyone Can Grow Orchids, offered from 6 to 9 p.m. on Thursday, March 26 and from 9 a.m. to noon on Saturday, March 28, 2009 at UCR Extension Center, 1200 University Ave., Riverside.

Students in this class will review basic orchid culture, including light, temperature, watering, fertilizing, and potting indoors, in a greenhouse, or outdoors. Students take a field trip to look at orchids in a home garden and will have the chance to re-pot their own orchids.

The class fee is $59 per person, or $49 for the multiple enrollment discount (one person in two or more gardening courses or two or more people in one gardening course). The fee includes parking.

For more information, call (951) 827-5804 or e-mail sciences@ucx.ucr.edu. To register for classes, visit www.extension.ucr.edu or call (951) 827-4105. To receive a free UCR Extension catalog, which includes a complete listing of all our current courses and certificate programs, call (951) 827-3806.

UCR Extension is the continuing education division of the University of California, Riverside. Extension offers more than 1,800 courses and certificate programs in a variety of academic programs, including agriculture and landscape, arts and humanities, business and management, education, teacher's credentialing, English, environmental management, geospatial analysis and technology, health services and behavioral sciences, information technology, languages, law and public policy, Native American studies, natural sciences, forensic investigations and public safety, and yoga.