Grey County Master Gardeners
Gardening Presentations
2024 Program Offerings
Dear Gardening Friends,
Grey County Master Gardeners are excited to invite you to preview our 2024 season program offerings, available for booking now! We offer presentations, advice clinics and demonstrations (often in combination) and are happy to contribute to your events.
GCMGs participate in numerous community events each year such as Farmers Markets, Grown in Grey and River District Blooms. Contact us to discuss your upcoming events and see how we can contribute.
We are always interested in hearing from you about topics of interest. If you have any suggestions, we would be delighted to discuss this with you.
Grey County Master Gardeners is a non-profit volunteer organization, and a donation of $100 is greatly appreciated to help cover our costs and to allow us to continue our community activities, such as community education and gardens, our free winter seminar, participation in community events, to name a few.
Please take this opportunity to book early to reserve the time and dates that work best for you!
Contact our Presentation Coordinator: Ann Joyner annmjoyner@gmail.com (416.728.0258)
Presentations:
Following on from the success of our 2023 series, we have refreshed and updated many of our 20+ available presentations and have added a new presentation on Growing Hydrangeas to our line-up. If there is a presentation topic you want but don’t see it listed, please reach out to us.
Advice Clinics:
Advice Clinics called ‘Ask a Master Gardener’ can be added to enhance your events. In these clinics, we offer a chance for your members to ask us just about anything they can think of – gardening related of course - and we promise to give our best practical scientifically based gardening advice.
Demonstrations:
New for 2024. After a successful pilot program we are now offering demonstrations and short workshop clinics. These can be run independently or as part of an overall presentation or advice clinic format. We are happy to discuss these further with you. Our demonstrations topics are increasing, however to date these include;
· Native Plant Container Design and Planting
● Tips for Seed Starting and Planting
● Pruning and Plant Dividing
Presentation Topics 2024
- Best Practices for a Healthy Garden - What to know and do to create a healthy, eco-responsible garden.
- Bulbs for All Seasons - Growing bulbs that bloom in different seasons.
- Chemical Free Gardening - Gardening with organic options.
- Climate Friendly Gardening - Gardening with climate change in mind.
- Companion Planting - Design and ecological benefits of companion planting.
- Container Gardening - Gardening in containers to increase your gardening area.
- Culinary Herbs - The definitions of herbs, a bit of history and how to grow and enjoy some common culinary herbs.
- Cutting Gardens to Enjoy the Blooms - How to grow a cutting flower garden and techniques to preserve cut flowers.
- Fall into Spring Simplified - Fall clean-up made easy to minimize spring garden tasks.
- Gardening for Beginners - The basic knowledge needed to start a new garden.
- Gardening is for the Birds! - Why and how to attract and keep birds coming to your garden.
- Growing Better Soil Health - Create good soil which is the base for healthy plants.
- Growing Vegetables - Best practices for growing your own vegetables.
- How to Have the Garden You Want - A workshop or presentation to guide garden assessment, design and plant choices.
- Hydrangeas – Types of hydrangeas and how to grow, prune and maintain them.
- Native Plants for the Home Garden - Introduction to native plants and use in home gardens.
- Ornamental Grasses - Different ornamental grasses and how to use them in your garden.
18. Pollinator-Friendly Gardening - Create a garden to attract pollinators and to help the ecosystem.
- Rejuvenate Your Garden - Techniques to rejuvenate tired, overgrown gardens.
- Shrubs For All Seasons! - Use of different shrubs to provide interest in different seasons.
- Small Space, Big Impact - A small garden can still be a great garden!
- Soggy Boggy Gardening - Rain gardens and plants that grow in wet conditions.
- Succulents – An Introduction to Indoor an Outdoor Succulents and Propagation
- Take This Garden & Move It! - How to plan and safely move mature plants from your garden.
- Water Wise Know How - Efficiently and properly water gardens for healthy and vigorous plants.
Looking for a Gardening Presentation? Ask Us!
To request a Grey County Master Gardener for your next event, contact Presentation Coordinator, Ann Joyner.