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The Mower County Horticulture Society is inviting the public to attend their next meeting at 6:30 p.m. on Nov. 12, at the Ruby Rupner building at the Jay C. Hormel Nature Center.

Mary Lahr Schier will be the guest speaker on the topic of garden trends.

Schier is a Minnesota gardener, writer and editor and author of “The Northern Gardener, From Apples to Zinnias, 150 Years of Garden Wisdom” (Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2017), winner of the Silver Award of Merit from GardenComm in 2018. For 18 years, she edited Northern Gardener magazine, the publication of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society and the only magazine dedicated to gardening in USDA Zones 3, 4 and 5.