Event

From the Ground and Up

Educational summer workshop for Master Gardeners, home gardeners, and garden enthusiasts, Saturday, June 23, 2018, from 8:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Choose your path for the day from twelve morning classroom sessions and five afternoon hands-on sessions.

Check our website for more details here
Click on Master Gardener Events and Workshops/Pierce
County WA, then scroll down to "From the Ground & Up
Workshop

8:00-8:45: Registration and book sales

8:45-9:45: Welcome and Keynote Speaker, Linda Chalker-Scott:
"The Essentials of How Plants Grow".

9:45-10:00: Break and Book Sales

10:00-11:00: Session I
*Cyndi Stuart, Hellebores & Other Winter Interest
*Dana Kelley Brisette, Landscaping for Wildlife
Habitat
*George Lasch, Good, Bad, & Why Bother
*Lisa Taylor, Don't Squish that Bug: OPM
(Organic Pest Management) for Gardeners.
*Laurie Pryne, Plants, People & Pollinators
*Jim Kroft, Berries, Vines, and Cane fruit

11:00-12:00: Session II
*Closed: Cyndi Stuart, Developing and Maintaining a
Shade Garden
*Scott Vergara, Plant Diseases: Pustules, Plagues,
Poxes: Plethora of Pathogens Pestering Pretty
Plants
*George Lasch, Grasses & Bamboo For You
*Lisa Taylor, Growing Veggies Under Cover:
Greenhouses, Cloches, Cold Frames
*Laurie Pryne, Pollinators & the Soil-No Bees, No
Food
*Teresa Knutsen, Unusual Garden Edibles

12:00-12:30: Break, pick up lunch in the cafeteria and Book
Sales

12:30-1:45: Keynote, Marianne Binetti, Landscaping with Ground
Covers-Stay Close to the Ground
1:45-2:15: Break, Book Sales, and Move to the Farm

2:15-3:30: Session III
*Closed Scott Vergara, Walkabout in Search of Right
Plant in the Right Place.
*Closed: Marianne Binetti, Using Ground Covers
*Lisa Taylor, Garden Naturalist's Farm Walkabout and
and Tools Recommendations
*Closed: MG Propagation Group, Propagation
*Robert Cho, Chinese Bonsai.