Educational Seminars, Workshops & Events
PLEASE NOTE: ALL seminars and workshops will be held online using Zoom video conferencing.
Please register on this website.
A day before the seminar you will receive an E-mail with a Zoom link and meeting ID. These allow 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 and video connection is working.
Please register on this website.
A day before the seminar you will receive an E-mail with a Zoom link and meeting ID. These allow 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 and video connection is working.
2021 SCHEDULE
MASTER GARDENER PLANT CLINIC
MASTER GARDENER PLANT CLINIC via Zoom. When we receive information regarding the next online clinic we will post it here on this website.
2021
Sunday, January 10, 2021
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ROSE PRUNING SEMINAR with Stuart Dalton
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via ZOOM
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Rose expert, Stuart Dalton, will teach you how to shape your rose bushes to encourage beautiful profuse flowering with winter pruning and winter proper care. He will cover equipment, safety in the garden and principles of pruning as well as demonstrating rose care techniques. He has given pruning demonstrations and numerous presentations on rose care appropriate for various times of the year at nurseries and rose societies for 30 years
Location: Due to social distancing requirements and space constraints in the Pumphouse, the workshop instruction will be viewed using Zoom. The Pumphouse will not be open.
A day before the presentation you will be emailed a link and meeting ID. You will be able to sign in 15 minutes early to confirm that the audio and video connection is working.
Questions: education@sanmateoarboretum.org or call 650-579-0536 x3.
Location: Due to social distancing requirements and space constraints in the Pumphouse, the workshop instruction will be viewed using Zoom. The Pumphouse will not be open.
A day before the presentation you will be emailed a link and meeting ID. You will be able to sign in 15 minutes early to confirm that the audio and video connection is working.
Questions: education@sanmateoarboretum.org or call 650-579-0536 x3.
Stu became an ARS Consulting Rosarian in 1988 and grows over 200 roses of many types in his Menlo Park home.
He is past president of the Peninsula Rose Society (peninsularosesociety.org)
American Rose Society (ARS) Consulting Rosarian (rose.org)
UCCE Master Gardener for San Mateo and San Francisco Counties. (smsf-mastergardeners.ucanr.edu)
He is past president of the Peninsula Rose Society (peninsularosesociety.org)
American Rose Society (ARS) Consulting Rosarian (rose.org)
UCCE Master Gardener for San Mateo and San Francisco Counties. (smsf-mastergardeners.ucanr.edu)
Sunday - February 14, 2021
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HOW TO IMPROVE YOUR SOIL with Terry Lyngso
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via ZOOM
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Soil is alive! Plants and soil interact together in very interesting ways. Learn about the relationship between plants and the soil and what you can do in your garden to ensure that the relationship is thriving.
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Terry is a lifelong gardener, a Master Composter, and a Master Gardener, a student of the soil food web and a lover of the natural world. Terry is President of Lyngso Garden Materials, a 65-year-old family business located in San Carlos. www.lyngsogarden.com
Sunday - March 7, 2021
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BUILD 25 INITIATIVE: Local Proactive Solutions to the Climate Crisis & Nature Deficit Disorder with The California Native Garden Foundation
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via ZOOM
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Register Now Alrie Middlebrook, executive director of the Calfornia Native Garden Foundation, will speak about gardening with native plants to sequester carbon, promote biodiversity, soil health, water conservation, pollination and a host of other ecosystem services that are enhanced by gardening with native plants using the plant community approach to artful ecological gardens.
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Bio: Alrie Middlebrook is a committed advocate and practitioner of the sustainable lifestyle, a landscape professional and California native plant specialist. Her San Jose-based design/build firm, Middlebrook Gardens, has installed over 800 California native gardens and remains on the leading edge of the rising sustainability movement. The California Native Garden Foundation, of which Alrie is a founding member, educates youth, builds curriculum, and has designed ELSEE (The Environmental Lab for Sustainability and Ecological Education), a certified teaching garden for schools embodying 200 benchmarks for the protection of ecosystems services. Alrie is committed to educating the public, especially youth, and promoting sustainability through native gardening and creating urban regenerative agriculture farms. Her workshops and speaking engagements at diverse venues across California have provided key forums to promote ecological thinking that empowers youth to lead in the development of a new urban land use model and ethic.
CNGF was established with the mission to inform and educate the public,
particularly youth, about gardening with native plants. https://cngf.org
particularly youth, about gardening with native plants. https://cngf.org
SUNDAY - APRIL 11, 2021
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GRASSES YOU'LL LOVE TO GROW with Bob Homback
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via ZOOM
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Bob Hornback, owner of Muchas Grasses, will be presenting a truly dazzling range of his favorite varieties of grasses. He'll tell you where and how to grow them.
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Bio: Bob Hornback is the owner of Muchas Grasses, his company that specializes in plant brokerage, consulation and design with ornamental grasses. He teaches botany and horticulture throughout the Bay Area, and is a well-known garden writer and lecturer.
May
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CAMELLIAS: PRUNING, POTTING, and PLANTING
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via ZOOM
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Gene Fleet & Meg MIlani's presentation will be informative for experts and novices alike. They will discuss how camellias can be part of your garden, either large or small, and will give you tips to successfully grow them in your garden. www.camelliasfpcs.org
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SUNDAY - JUNE 6, 2021
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SEEDING DEMYSTIFIED; HOW TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN STARTING NEW PLANTS FROM SEED with Judith Dean and Virginia Martin
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via ZOOM
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Bios:
Judith Dean: Trained as a Master Gardener in 2006 by the University of California Cooperative Extension program. Additional training in plant propagation at Foothill College, San Francisco Botanical Garden, and Filoli. Principal vegetable grower for Master Gardener Spring Garden market--over 700 plants annually, all from seed.
Virginia Martin: Trained as a Master Gardener in 2006 by the University of California Cooperative Extension program and has been propagating plants for many years.
July
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VEGETABLE GARDENING IN THE FALL and WINTER with Pam Peirce
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via ZOOM
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SUNDAY - AUGUST 1, 2021
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CALIFORNIA NATIVE PLANT SOCIETY - Yerba Buena Chapter
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via ZOOM
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- 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
- FREE
- Reservations Required
SUNDAY - SEPTEMBER 12, 2021
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TBD
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via ZOOM
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SUNDAY - OCTOBER 3, 2021
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SUCCULENT TOPPED PUMPKIN WORKSHOP
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via ZOOM
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- TIME TBD
- COST TBD
- Reservations Required
SUNDAY - NOVEMBER 7, 2021
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TBD
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via ZOOM
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SUNDAY - DECEMBER 5, 2021
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WREATH WORKSHOP
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via ZOOM
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- TIME TBD
- COST TBD
- Reservations Required
