Arboretum lectures are May 15

A Stephen F. Austin State University horticulturist will present "Gardening with the Birds and the Bees…Saving the Planet One Yard at a Time" at the next Mast Arboretum Les Reeves Lecture Series at SFA Thursday, May 15.

Greg Grant is the research associate at the SFA Pineywoods Native Plant Center, co-author of "Home Landscaping - Texas and The Southern Heirloom Garden," and a lifetime member of the Native Plant Society of Texas.

Mr. Grant lives in Arcadia in his great-grandparents' dogtrot farmhouse, where he tends more than 100 eastern bluebird boxes and his own quarter-acre "pocket prairie."

The SFA Arboretum Les Reeves Lecture Series is held the third Thursday of each month from 7 to 8:30 p.m. in Room 110 of the Agriculture Building on Wilson Drive.

It is free and open to the public.

Refreshments are served before the talk, and a rare plants raffle is held. For more information, call (936) 468-3705.