Become a Master Gardener

Do you like the feel of the earth between your fingers, the fragrance of growing flowers, the taste of homegrown tomatoes? Do you want to share your interest in gardening with others? Become a Master Gardener! Click here to discover more about the Texas Master Gardener program.

Need Gardening Information?

If you are looking for gardening information for your neck of the woods, your county's Master Gardener association is the answer! You will find information on plant sales, seminars, newsletters, and more, all in your area of Texas. Look up your county's website.
The Master Gardener Program is a volunteer development program offered by Texas AgriLife Extension Service and is designed to increase the availability of horticultural information and improve the quality of life through horticultural projects.
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Events

Who are we?

Texas Master Gardeners is a volunteer program designed to grow horticultural information throughout the state, town by town. To become a Texas Master Gardener, a participant attends 50 hours of instruction, conducted by the local Extension county agent, then shares this knowledge by donating 50 hours of volunteer service back to the community.

The touch of Texas Master Gardeners’ green thumbs can be found across the state -- in school garden projects, horticultural therapy projects, community gardens and demonstration gardens; by volunteers who also conduct gardening programs and answer gardening questions. Anything anyone wants to know about gardening, a Master Gardener can help. That includes young wannabe gardeners too – Master Gardeners help set up 4-H gardening clubs and Junior Master Gardener groups.

In fact, when it comes to green and growing things, Master Gardeners dig into their service in all kinds of ways: teaching, giving presentations, writing newsletters and articles, providing clerical help, and designing and maintaining Web pages.

Want to know more?

Volunteers contributed 494,997 hours to horticulture-based educational projects,
for a benefit to the state that was worth
$9.8 million.

In 2010, there were 6,196 volunteers in the
Texas Master Gardeners, according to the
organization’s annual report.

That year Texas Master Gardeners gave
2,360 presentations for a combined audience
of 193,858 individuals in the community.