On March 12th at 7:00 PM the LeGrand Pioneer Heritage Library will present a program on “Gardening in the Amana Colonies”. Larry and Wilma Rettig’s gardens have been featured in local and national publications, on the Internet, and are listed with the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., in its Archives of American Gardens. They grow over 300 varieties of flowers, trees, shrubs, fruits, and vegetables. Since 1986, they have maintained a seed bank that preserves vegetable varieties brought from Germany to the Amana Villages during the 1850s.

Larry is also a daylily hybridizer, a historian, a photographer, an artist, a musician, and an author. His book, “Gardening the Amana Way,” will be available for purchase at the program.

This program is free and open to the public and has been made available through a grant from the Martha-Ellen Tye Foundation.

The library is located at 204 N. Vine Street (in the city park) and for questions on this program contact the library at 641-479-2122 or books@legrand,lib.ia.us