A brown-bag presentation on the beauty of western Nebraska will be at noon April 2 at noon in Keim Hall, Room 150.

Amy Seiler, community forestry specialist for the Nebraska Forest Service, will talk about beautiful landscapes with a strong sense of place in western Nebraska. Seiler will have photos and tips for creating and managing waterwise landscapes in difficult urban settings. She will also highlight some plants and trees, both naturally-occurring and planted, that are “thriving in unlikely and difficult places and circumstances.”

This 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.

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 attracting birds, garden design and children’s gardens.

Participants are invited to bring lunch or dinner, if desired, and ideas or questions. For more information about the brown-bag series, click here, send email to arboretum@unl.edu or call 402-472-2971.