The NDSU Langdon Research Extension Center will offer an evening horticultural tour on July 30. The tour will highlight a recently completed centennial landscape on the center grounds. The tour will begin with dinner at 5:30 p.m. and will conclude with additional refreshments. The horticultural tour is the last of three events held throughout this summer celebrating the center’s centennial year.

John Lukach, Langdon Research Extension Center Research Scientist, designed the centennial landscape. Many of the horticultural plantings selected for the landscape are derived from years of horticultural and forestry research conducted by Dale Herman, NDSU professor of horticulture and forestry. Throughout the years these plant materials have been released by the NDSU Research Foundation to the nursery trade and are for sale to the public. Larry Chaput, NDSU woody plants specialist and long-time colleague of Herman, will present the Langdon Research Extension Center centennial landscape on the tour.

The tour also will feature a research project that began in 2008 testing the winter hardiness of grape varieties grown in this region for selected grape markets. This research project is a cooperative effort between the Langdon Research Extension Center and the North Dakota Grape Growers Association. The horticultural tour will conclude with a walking tour, viewing the demonstration gardens situated at the center.

For more information, contact Randy Mehlhoff, Langdon Research Extension Center director, at (701) 256-2582.