Seminars, Workshops & Events
2024 Master Gardener Plant Clinics
At the Kohl Pumphouse on the listed Sundays. Come any time between noon and 3:00 pm
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The Master Gardeners are available to answer your questions from general information to advice about specific problems. Bring samples of your problem plants for better diagnosis. If you suspect insect damage, try to include some of the insects so they can be correctly identified.
http://smsf-mastergardeners.ucanr.edu/plant-clinics/ https://smsf-mastergardeners.ucanr.edu |
CHILDREN'S EVENT - SPRING SEARCH!
A fun event for children ages 4-12
Sundays: April 28 and May 19 Drop in any time between noon - 2:30 pm San Mateo Arboretum Greenhouse & Nursery (by the Kohl Pumphouse; next to the Rose Garden) Children will follow clues and search the Arboretum for answers to questions about plants. Win prizes and plants! |
2024 SEMINAR SCHEDULE
Unless otherwise stated, seminars and workshops are hybrid, offered with a small, in-person group and online using Zoom video conferencing. Registration is required for both in-person and video conference attendance.
Online attendees will receive an email with a Zoom link the day before the seminar, allowing you to connect to the seminar using a Web browser or smart phone. You will be able to sign in 15 minutes early to confirm that the audio&video connections are working.
In-person attendees will also receive a Zoom link in case they cannot attend at the last minute. Please notify SMAS as soon as possible if you are unable to attend in person.
SMAS may take photographs for educational and promotional purposes. Registering for an event implies permission to appear in a photograph. Your privacy is important to us. If you do NOT want to appear, please notify SMAS in writing (email is acceptable) at least two days prior to the event. We will do our best to accommodate your request.
Online attendees will receive an email with a Zoom link the day before the seminar, allowing you to connect to the seminar using a Web browser or smart phone. You will be able to sign in 15 minutes early to confirm that the audio&video connections are working.
In-person attendees will also receive a Zoom link in case they cannot attend at the last minute. Please notify SMAS as soon as possible if you are unable to attend in person.
SMAS may take photographs for educational and promotional purposes. Registering for an event implies permission to appear in a photograph. Your privacy is important to us. If you do NOT want to appear, please notify SMAS in writing (email is acceptable) at least two days prior to the event. We will do our best to accommodate your request.
MAY
All ABOUT EDIBLE HERBS AND EDIBLE FLOWERS
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SUNDAY - May 05, 2024, 1 - 2:30 pm
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via ZOOM and small in-person group. FREE! Registration required.
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Use the buttons below or call 650-579-0536x3
Discover or renew a new gardening excitement and learn the basics of growing, harvesting and using culinary herbs and edible flowers. Propagate your plants from seeds, cuttings, transplants and divisions. Integrate your herbs and edible flowers in your native landscapes, vegetable gardens and containers. Maintain your plants with sustainable methods, and harvest your herbs to use them fresh or preserve them for future use. Let’s have fun while sharing the many ideas for using herbs.
A presentation by Master Gardeners Kathy Fleming and Cindi Morris Kathy Fleming: Kathy loves creating a balance at her Peninsula home by growing culinary herbs and flowers in containers and her perennial landscape. She uses the herbs and edible flowers in many recipes, either fresh and/or dried, and loves sharing them with friends and neighbors. Kathy has been a SM/SF UCCE Master Gardener since 2006 and has always enjoyed speaking and sharing ideas about this passion. Cindi Morris: As a child, Cindi visited Ferry Morse Seed Company where her father worked. She loved peeking into the labs and seeing all the experiments. The best part was picking out some seed packets to take home to grow. She was amazed that you could plant a small seed and it would grow into a wonderful flower. She graduated from San Francisco State and has taken many horticulture classes from different schools. She has worked as an interior plantscaper at a large florist company. As a UC Master Gardener volunteer, she was the tomato growing lead and participates in the annual Spring Garden Market every year. She currently maintains a herb garden in the San Carlos Library garden and leads the San Mateo Arboretum plant clinic each month. |
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JUNE
HOUSEPLANTS: FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
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SUNDAY - June 02, 2024, 1 - 2:30 pm
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via ZOOM and small in-person group. FREE! Registration required.
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Do you want houseplants but don’t know which to buy? Do you own houseplants but don’t know how to care for them, or maybe they just don’t look so great. If this sounds like you, bring your questions and/or your potted friends, and we can diagnose and discuss your houseplant problem(s).
Houseplant Q&A with Master Gardeners Cynthia Nations and Cindi Morris
Use the buttons below or call 650-579-0536x3
Do you want houseplants but don’t know which to buy? Do you own houseplants but don’t know how to care for them, or maybe they just don’t look so great. If this sounds like you, bring your questions and/or your potted friends, and we can diagnose and discuss your houseplant problem(s).
Houseplant Q&A with Master Gardeners Cynthia Nations and Cindi Morris
Cindi Morris: As a child, Cindi visited Ferry Morse Seed Company where her father worked. She loved peeking into the labs and seeing all the experiments. The best part was picking out some seed packets to take home to grow. She was amazed that you could plant a small seed and it would grow into a wonderful flower. She graduated from San Francisco State and has taken many horticulture classes from different schools. She has worked as an interior plantscaper at a large florist company. As a UC Master Gardener volunteer, she was the tomato growing lead and participates in the annual Spring Garden Market every year. She currently maintains a herb garden in the San Carlos Library garden and leads the San Mateo Arboretum plant clinic each month.
Cynthia Chew Nations: Cynthia Nations is a 2015 UC Master Gardener graduate and has volunteered as UC Master Gardener secretary, the lead for Spring Garden Market for 3 years, education committee chair, lead for monthly On the Coastside Magazine gardening articles since 2017, coordinator for the 2020 MG education class, and president from 2020-2022. In her long education career, she taught 2nd grade through doctoral level students, was a school and district level administrator, and was a national education consultant in educational technology and leadership. She is now “Mimi” to 4 beautiful grandchildren! Her gardening interests include growing edibles, houseplants, and drought-tolerant natives and succulents. |
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JULY
CALIFORNIA NATIVE GARDENING FOR YEAR ROUND INTEREST AND COLOR
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SUNDAY - July 07, 2024, 1 - 2:30 pm
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via ZOOM and small in-person group. FREE! Registration required.
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California is one of the most biodiverse places on earth, and has an amazing array of plants that thrive in our gardens. By learning the seasonal rhythms of your own area, and the unique charms of the plants that grow naturally there, you can enjoy a bounty of bloom, berry and bark throughout the year. In the process, you’ll save water and enjoy a lush landscape that feeds local ecosystems. Attendees will receive a free packet of California native wildflowers with a long bloom season to try out in their own gardens.
Use the buttons below or call 650-579-0536x3
California is one of the most biodiverse places on earth, and has an amazing array of plants that thrive in our gardens. By learning the seasonal rhythms of your own area, and the unique charms of the plants that grow naturally there, you can enjoy a bounty of bloom, berry and bark throughout the year. In the process, you’ll save water and enjoy a lush landscape that feeds local ecosystems. Attendees will receive a free packet of California native wildflowers with a long bloom season to try out in their own gardens.
Instructor: Jennifer Dirking
Jennifer Dirking has been an organic gardener for over 40 years, but only recently transformed her garden from a food desert to a habitat oasis in her suburban San Carlos neighborhood. Inspired by Doug Tallamy’s “Nature’s Best Hope,” (https://bit.ly/Tallamy-CA-Plants) she has reached beyond her garden fence to develop partnerships and inspire hundreds of others throughout the Bay Area to begin their own native gardening journey. Her simple tactics involving free wildflower seeds and promotion via social media provide a model for other individuals and organizations that want to reach further into their communities as well. She is currently the Chair of the Wildflower Ambassador program at the CNPS-Santa Clara Valley Chapter. This group of 40 volunteers has distributed over four thousand native wildflower seed packets with informational handouts to date. Jennifer is also co-administrator of the Native Plant Resource Teams, a program of the Bringing Back the Natives Garden Tour. |
Photo: California Fuchsia. Jennifer Dirking
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AUGUST
HOW CLIMATE CHANGE IS CHANGING OUR PLANTS
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SUNDAY - August 04, 2024, 1 - 2:30 pm
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via ZOOM and small in-person group. FREE! Registration required.
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Join in on the discussion how climate change is changing plants. Hotter Summers and colder Winters. Longer droughts and atmospheric rainstorms. Learn tips and tricks for dealing with the new challenges to our landscapes.
Instructor: Frank Niccoli
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Join in on the discussion how climate change is changing plants. Hotter Summers and colder Winters. Longer droughts and atmospheric rainstorms. Learn tips and tricks for dealing with the new challenges to our landscapes.
Instructor: Frank Niccoli
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