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*** Plant Growing Guide ***
Articles
“Garden Patch” by Phyllis Webster
09/21/24 – Identify Butterfly Plants
09/07/24 – Learn While Traveling
08/24/24 – Succulents Prove Resilient
08/10/24 – Sterilize Now, Plant Later
07/27/24 – Use Research-based Plants
07/13/24 – Learn to Dry Garden
06/29/24 – Display Your Patriotic Colors
06/15/24 – Growing Tomatoes 101
06/01/24 – Improve Your Drainage
05/19/24 – Show Your Summer Colors
05/04/24 – Create a Cooling Oasis
04/20/24 – Know Before Buying: Perennials or Annuals?
04/06/24 – Learn at Plant Sales
03/23/24 – Watch the Eclipse Enchant Gardens
03/09/24 – Beautify with Bulbs
02/24/24 – Tackle Winter Pruning
02/09/24 – Assess Roses for Freeze Damage
01/27/24 – Start New Plants From Seeds
01/15/24 – New Year Brings Fresh Trends
12/30/23 – Enjoy a Festive Landscape
12/16/23 – Seasonal Color Abounds
12/02/23 – Celebrate with Texas Poinsettia
11/18/23 – Enjoy Ornamental Grasses
11/04/23 – Asters Signal Fall’s Arrival
10/21/23 – Heat Loving Plants Rebound in Fall
10/07/23 – Fall Brings Rose Hips
09/16/23 – Goldenrod Signals Fall
“In the Garden” by Jane and Ray McGowen
02/22 – Winter Color in the Garden
01/22 – Dirty Little Secrets
11/21 – Pansies – A Welcome Face for Winter Color
09/21 – Crape Myrtles
08/21 – Summer Sunflowers
07/21 – Go Native with Coneflowers
06/21 – More Bees, Please
Plant Disease & Pest Control
Videos
- Backyard Composting
- Garden Tool Maintenance Video: Daily Maintenance of Long Handled Tools
- Iris Division at the Demonstration Garden
- Organic Lawn Treatment
- Pesticide – 1
- Pesticide – 2
- Pesticide – 3
- Rose Propagation
Current Year Presentations
- July 17, 2024 – Herbs for Bees Handout
Prior Year Presentations
- Attracting Pollinators to Garden
- Backyard Composting – Tarrant Area Food Bank
- Bird House Gourds
- Compost & Structures
- Daylilies – Care and Maintenance
- Divine Vines
- Drip Irrigation
- Earth-Kind Gardening Techniques
- Earth-Kind Rose Cultivars – Care and Propagation
- Enjoying Edible Flowers
- Entomology
- Farm to Table
- Development of the Demonstration Garden
- Drought Tolerant Trees
- Getting the Garden Ready for Spring
- Grasses
- Growing Roses Successfully
- Heat, Drought and Trees (part 1)
- Heat, Drought and Trees (part 2)
- Herb Recipes
- How to Grow Gourds & What to do With Them
- Hugelkultur
- Love It or Leave It
- Mighty Monarch Migration
- Moths, Friend or Foe?
- Native Grasses of the Prairie
- Pest Insects in and around the Garden
- Planning Your Spring Vegetable Garden
- Plant Propagation – Polly Parmer
- Plant Propagation – Sherrill Czarnecki
- Preparing for Fall
- Proper Irrigation of Fruits and Vegetables
- Rose Care and Pruning Tips
- Roses- Soda Bottle Propagator
- Soil Preparation
- Structural Pests
- The Fungus Among Us (July 2023)
- The Monarchs are Coming (Part 1)
- The Monarchs are Coming (Part 2)
- Wicked Plants
- Travel Study and Learn in City of Eternal Spring