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. ​
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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)

 
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

​CNGF was established with the mission to inform and educate the public,
particularly youth, about gardening with native plants. https://cngf.org​

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.

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.