Sherrie Benson

General Manager and Head Grower Tree Time Services Greenhouse

[Sherrie Benson @sherrielbenson]

@UABotanicGarden @UofAALES If you find little brown things on the leaves of your Sage this season, you win!! Parasitic wasps have taken care of aphids!!

[Sherrie Benson @sherrielbenson]

Guest speaking at Avenmore Garden Association and Some Edmonton Horticulture members and past Master Gardener students have arrived! Plant Growth and Development

[Dr. Stan Blade KSLA 🇨🇦🇮🇳 @DrStanfordBlade]

More important research from ⁦@UofAALES⁩ #Wildfires causing boreal #forest to have fewer #trees, less undergrowth #UAlberta @globalnews⁩ https://t.co/gW44t283hZ

[Faculty of ALES, University of Alberta @UofAALES]

The Faculty of ALES expresses our deepest condolences to those connected to the tragic plane crash in Iran.

Resources for the @UAlberta community are available — we encourage everyone to access supports when needed.

https://t.co/2cgb7ZSF36

[Sherrie Benson @sherrielbenson]

@TIMBARRYRVA Beautiful

[Dr. Stan Blade KSLA 🇨🇦🇮🇳 @DrStanfordBlade]

Thanks to everyone who identified our @UABotanicGarden as the Best Day Trip Gold #ReadersChoice Award 🥇 in today’s @edmontonjournal! It is a magical place. Start planning your 2020 visit. #yeg #ualberta

[Faculty of ALES, University of Alberta @UofAALES]

North Campus @UAlberta has an impressive array of trees, made all the more beautiful adorned with #Christmas lights!
Photo cred @UofAALES student Jessie Lavallee-Whiffen
#yeg

[Dr. Stan Blade KSLA 🇨🇦🇮🇳 @DrStanfordBlade]

What a pleasure to MC tonight’s gathering of gracious donors who see the promise of a new pavilion at our @UABotanicGarden. The Diwan will be a gathering place for #art, #culture & #celebration at the heart of the world-renowned Aga Khan Garden. @UofAALES @UAlberta #yeg #ableg

[Sherrie Benson @sherrielbenson]

@DeanALES_UofA @UABotanicGarden It was so much fun!!

[Sherrie Benson @sherrielbenson]

@UABotanicGarden Behind the scenes preparations, where senior staff switch gears to light up #luminaria2019

[Sherrie Benson @sherrielbenson]

@UABotanicGarden in @UofAALES our Lithops francisci in the Arid collection bloom!!

[Sherrie Benson @sherrielbenson]

@UABotanicGarden in @UofAALES The Arid collection amazes me, this Mammillaria denudata we have had in our collection since 2003, the blooms feel like paper.

[Sherrie Benson @sherrielbenson]

@UABotanicGarden in @UofAALES Adalia sp. (Ladybug) is devouring the Mizus persicae (Aphid), our greenschool grade 5 class put the #biocontrol army on the crops for me!

[Sherrie Benson @sherrielbenson]

@UABotanicGarden in @UofAALES our Arid plant collections have snowy looking blooms, #luminaria2019 approaches!

[UofA Botanic Garden @UABotanicGarden]

#Luminaria 2019 is now 60% sold out and tickets are going fast! See https://t.co/UKhZGM28EX for full ticket information. @ExploreEdmonton @UAlberta @UofAALES #exploreedmonton

[UofA Botanic Garden @UABotanicGarden]

Do you have your #Luminaria tickets yet? Start your holiday season Dec. 6-8 with outdoor beauty, sparkling candles, hot apple cider. Starlight, firelight and snowlight. Order tix soon to avoid disappointment! https://t.co/UKhZGM28EX @UofAALES @ExploreEdmonton

[Sherrie Benson @sherrielbenson]

@UABotanicGarden Cleistocactus strausii From Argentina has beautiful new growth!! Love our Arid collection! #biodiversity @UofAALES

[Sherrie Benson @sherrielbenson]

It is important to understand this.
We attempt to teach this @UABotanicGarden

[Sherrie Benson @sherrielbenson]

@UABotanicGarden in the Arid house the smelly Stapelia pulvinata blooms, pollinated by flies, it's no surprise that it smells of rotten meat! @UofAALES @UAlberta

[Sherrie Benson @sherrielbenson]

@UABotanicGarden in the Warm Temperate House the Chinese Wisteria blooms!! Wisteria sinensis
Planted in 2004 by my predecessor. @UofAALES