BRIEF

Area residents are invited to learn how to convert their water-guzzling, water-wasting yards into less-thirsty, water-efficient, energy-saving and attractive landscapes through University of Nevada Cooperative Extension’s landscape retrofit classes.

Participants will be coached through the design process, creating their own designs for building a new or redesigning an old landscape.

The eight-week class begins Feb. 1 and continues each Monday morning from 9 a.m. to noon through March 22 at the Lifelong Learning Center, located at 8050 Paradise Road. Class size is limited and there is a $50 fee per landscape. (The fee is waived for those associated with the master gardener program.)

More than 500 Las Vegas Valley residents have completed the classes with outstanding results; some have been presented landscape design awards.

For more information, contact either the master gardener help line at 257-5555, Bob Morris at morrisr@unce.unr.edu, or the instructor, Mel Hengen, at mojavemel@aol.com.