Garden Program

Naturalist Jim McCormac will present "Think Globally, Plant Locally." Jim writes a column for the Columbus Dispatch and a nature blog www.jimmccormac.blogspot.com. He is also the author of Birds of Ohio. The program is to honor Martha Beck and Lyn Fisher who were instrumental in founding the Pickaway County Master Gardener Volunteer program in 1998.

2013 Ohio Master Gardener State Conference
October 4-5, 2013 at Embassy Suites, Independence, Ohio
For online details, registration and payment:  cuyahogamg.org/SC
For printable details and a registration form for mailing:  cuyahogamg.org/SCinfo

State Awards Dinner - October 4, 5:00 p.m. until festivities conclude, dinner  served at 6:30 p.m.

The Master Gardeners of Cuyahoga County's annual plant sale offers a multitude of plants, including interesting and exotic plants, planted containers, a container gardening program and a garden reference table for your questions and answers. 
Plants in the Park is held in the Kiwanis Pavilion at Selig Park in Independence, OH, off of Brecksville Rd. (Rte. 21), south of Rockside Rd.

The Ohio State University Chadwick Arboretum & Learning Gardens Spring Plant Sale, Auction and Gardening Fair May 10-11.

All gardening enthusiats are welcome to attend this fun filled day of vendors, raffels, great food and top notch garden speakers. This year our keynote speaker will be Julie Zickefoose, garden writer and painter. She will discuss her book latest book "The Bluebird Effect" . She will have her books on hand to sell and sign! Many other wonderful speakers and entertainment for lunch provided by the Newark Senior High School Improv Comedy Group!

Frustrated with weeds?  Mark Koenig, Sandusky County Extension Educator, will cover common weeds and diseases found in yards, solutions for control, charts for best time to control and management.  Call 419-447-9722 ext. 10 to reserve your seat. 

Bill Hendricks presents ground covers an important part of overall design, textures, colors, blend, brighten or sooth.  AND creating landscapes through the use of fragrance in the garden.  Call 419-447-9722 Ext. 10 to reserve your seat.

Learn from Pam Bennett. OSU State Master Gardener Coordinator - top performers from her trial plots at OSU.  These are not your grandma's annuals!!

Garden Fling is a day filled with programs that will appeal to gardeners of all types and the opportunity to visit with the many vendors selling a variety of garden items.

Admission is $7:00 and you can shop till you drop or attend all the programs or just a few. 

Kathy Smith the OSU Forestry Expert will be the keynote speaker presenting "Invasive Plants of Ohio."

There will be a panel of "Ask the Experts" to answer your garden questions.

Lunch is available.

Kerry Mendez

This day is devoted to perennial gardening with the speakers presenting on a variety of topics .  Keynote speaker, Kerry Mendez will do two programs the first Design tips Shared from Before and after Garden Renovation and the second Three seasons of Outrageous Color from Perennials.  Other presenterswill be Pamela Bennett, Top Ten Pest of Perennials ; Kathy Burkholder,  Top Performers at the Chadwick arboretum; and Pablo Jourdan, Coreopsis.