Northpinellas: Pinellas digest

LARGO -- Looking for ways to conserve water and still have a green landscape this summer? Horticulturist Bob Albanese will teach a workshop focusing on microirrigation at 10 a.m. Saturday at the Florida Botanical Gardens at 12175 125th St. N. The class will include landscape design, maintenance of irrigation systems that promote water efficiency, and microirrigation techniques. The cost of the workshop, which will meet in auditorium A, is $20 for the irrigation kits, $15 for master gardeners and Botanical Gardens members. Registration is required. Call 582-2124. Florida Botanical Gardens is a public garden and part of the Pinewood Cultural Park campus that also is home to the Pinellas County Extension Service, Gulf Coast Museum of Art and Heritage Village. Visit the gardens' Web site at www.flbg.org.

Crystal Beach Art Group to present free show

CRYSTAL BEACH -- The Crystal Beach Art Group, now in its 36th year, will put on a free art show from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. April 6 in Live Oak Park. Call Evalyn Wood at 734-4377 or Mary Lowe at 785-3247.

Exhibit to feature abstract expressionism

TARPON SPRINGS -- The Leepa-Rattner Museum of Art will present "Ibram Lassaw: Deep Space and Beyond" starting April 7. The exhibition will include sculptures, paintings and prints that Lassaw, an abstract expressionist with an international reputation, created from 1927 to 2001. On April 7, Arthur F. Jones, the exhibition curator at Radford University, will give a public lecture in the museum's auditorium. The museum is on the Tarpon Springs campus of St. Petersburg College at 600 Klosterman Road. Its hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday, 5 to 9 p.m. Thursdays and 1 to 5 p.m. Sundays. Admission is $5 for adults, $4 for seniors and free for children and students with IDs. Sunday admission is by donation. Call 712-5762.

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