Support Us

​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.

2021 SCHEDULE

MASTER GARDENER PLANT CLINIC

Sunday, May 2, 2021  -  11 - 12:30 pm
MASTER GARDENER PLANT CLINIC via Zoom
Have a plant, pest or gardening question? Ask a Master Gardener at a plant clinic offered via Zoom. In addition to questions submitted in advance, panelists will invite live questions from attendees, time permitting. If you don’t have a question, simply join us for some informative and lively garden talk!    Registration is required: Please click here to register and submit any questions and photos. You will receive the Zoom link in advance of the clinic date.

2021

SUNDAY - APRIL 11, 2021

GRASSES YOU'LL LOVE TO GROW with Bob Homback
via ZOOM
  • 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
  • FREE
  • Reservations Required
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.
Register Now
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.

Sunday - May 2, 2021

CAMELLIAS: PRUNING, POTTING, and PLANTING
via ZOOM
  • 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
  • FREE
  • Reservations Required
​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 
Register Now

SUNDAY - JUNE 6, 2021

SEEDING DEMYSTIFIED; HOW TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN STARTING NEW PLANTS FROM SEED with Judith Dean and Virginia Martin
via ZOOM
  • 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
  • FREE
  • Reservations Required
Register Now
​The basics of growing from seed along with some tips and hacks that make it cheaper and easier to be successful
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

Start now to Grow a Year-Round Food Garden
​with Pam Peirce
via ZOOM
  • 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
  • FREE
  • Reservations Required
Register Now
Need a nudge to get your kitchen garden producing all year? Let Pam Peirce, renowned local author and plants woman guide you with her talk and inspiring visual presentation as you prepare for bountiful harvests in fall, winter, and spring. July is the perfect time to start. Her website is pampeirce.com.
 In our mediterranean climate, we do not need to settle for only a spring to fall garden. The other half of the year has pleasures and treasures aplenty. Let’s grow them! Learn crops, varieties, and timing to do so in our year-round food gardening workshop. Includes information on container gardening, managing pests of cool-season crops, and links to useful handouts.
BIO: Pam Peirce is a San Francisco-based gardener, author, photographer, and lecturer. The third edition of her classic regional gardening book, Golden Gate Gardening, was released in 2010, with four different planting calendars—for gardeners in microclimates near the coast to far inland. Wildly Successful Plants: Northern California, teaches ornamental gardening in our region through 50 heirloom garden ornamentals. Pam taught horticulture at City College of San Francisco for nearly 30 years, and her columns have appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle since 2006. On her blog, goldengategarden.typepad.com, you can read many valuable posts about gardening in our region.

SUNDAY - AUGUST 1, 2021

GARDENING FOR BUTTERFLIES with Susan Karasoff
via ZOOM
  • 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
  • FREE
  • Reservations Required
 The bay area is home to many butterflies. Butterfly babies (caterpillars) evolved with and depend on eating local native plant leaves (host plants).  We’ll discuss growing a butterfly buffet for baby and adult butterflies, including plants that thrive in containers.
Register Now
BIO: Susan Karasoff gardens in San Francisco’s clay soil. Susan is the outreach chair for California Native Plant Society - Yerba Buena (San Francisco/Northern San Mateo County), http://cnps-yerbabuena.org/. Susan builds resilient local ecosystems with an “only the easiest plants survive” approach to gardening. Susan grows a buffet of colorful native edible and pollinator plants. http://cnps-yerbabuena.org/biodiversity/biodiversity-resources/. Butterflies and host plant relationships are available for California plants on the Calscape database https://www.calscape.org/ and for butterflies and plants across the United States on the National Wildlife Federation plant database https://www.nwf.org/NativePlantFinder.The bay area is home to many butterflies. Butterfly babies (caterpillars) evolved with and depend on eating local native plant leaves (host plants).  We’ll discuss growing a butterfly buffet for baby and adult butterflies, including plants that thrive in containers.

SUNDAY - SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

TBD
via ZOOM

SUNDAY - OCTOBER 3, 2021

SUCCULENT TOPPED PUMPKIN WORKSHOP
via ZOOM
  • TIME TBD
  • ​COST TBD
  • Reservations Required

SUNDAY - NOVEMBER 7, 2021

TBD
via ZOOM

SUNDAY - DECEMBER 5, 2021

WREATH WORKSHOP
via ZOOM
  • TIME TBD
  • COST TBD
  • Reservations Required