Gardening Knowledge

Welcome Gardeners! The presentations, articles, fact sheets, and videos on this page contain interesting and helpful information for gardens in our area. Read on and learn!

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Articles

“Garden Patch” by Phyllis Webster November 24, 2021 – Finish Chores Before Feasting November 10, 2021 – Foundation Plants Need Fall Care October 10, 2021 – Design Your Garden with Color September 25, 2021 – Gardens Bloom Anew In Fall September 22, 2021 – Protect the Monarchs September 1, 2021 – Choose Ferns for Shade August 17, 2021 – The Word is Xeriscape, Not Zero Scape! August 4, 2021 – Help Butterflies Beat the Odds July 11, 2021 – Garden with Succulents July 7, 2021 – Agaves Boast Blooms! June 23, 2021 – Grow Wild for Summer June 9, 2021 – Grow Up; Grow-Vines May 25, 2021 – Manage Storm Waters May 12, 2021 – Rejuvenate Your Landscape April 28, 2021 – Go Wild With Wildflowers April 15, 2021 – Find Plants To Fill Bare Spaces March 24, 2021 – Feed The Birds March 10, 2021 – Look What’s Coming Back February 23, 2021 – Recover From Record Freezes

“In the Garden” by Jane and Ray McGowen November 2021 – Pansies – A Welcome Face for Winter Color September 2021 – Crape Myrtles August 2021 – Summer Sunflowers July 2021 – Go Native with Coneflowers June 2021 – More Bees, Please

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Plant Disease & Pest Control

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Videos

• The Dirt on Backyard Composting – Tarrant Area Food Bank
• Rose Propagation – Lake Granbury Master Gardeners
• Iris Division at the Demonstration Garden – Lake Granbury Master Gardeners
• Organic Lawn Treatment – Lake Granbury Master Gardeners
• Garden Tool Maintenance Video: Daily Maintenance of Long Handled Tools

2021 Presentations

• The Dirt on Backyard Composting – Tarrant Area Food Bank
  • Dirt on Backyard Composting Handout
  • What to Compost Guide
  • Garden Workday Flyer
• A Narrative Account of the Development of the Demonstration Garden – Lake Granbury Master Gardeners
• The Development of the Demonstration Garden Pt. 2, A Texas English Garden – Lake Granbury Master Gardeners
• Divine Vines – Lake Granbury Master Gardeners

Prior Year Presentations

• 2017 Year End Presentation
• Attracting Pollinators to Garden
• Bird House Gourds
• CES EK Rose Care Prune Propag
• CEU Rose Care Pruning Tips Final 2015
• Class of 2017 Intern Project
• Compost & Structures
• Daylilies presentation
• Drip Irrigation
• Earth-Kind CEU Presentation – EK Gardening
• Farm to Table (available for download only due to file size)
• Generic Drought Tolerant Trees
• Generic Heat & Drought Damage Part 1
• Generic Heat & Drought Part 2
• Getting the Garden Ready for Spring
• Grass presentation
• Herbs
• How to Grow Gourds & What to do With Them
• Hugelkultur
• Iris Division at the Demonstration Garden
• Love It or Leave It by Toni Moorehead
• Lunch Box Growing Roses Successfully
• Master_Gardener_Flyer
• Master_Gardener_Flyer
• Pest Insects in and around the Garden
• Pesticide – 1
• Pesticide – 2
• Pesticide – 3
• Plant Propagation Intern class 2011
• Plant Propagation Lunch 2015
• Preparing for Fall
• Presentation_entomology
• Proper Irrigation of Fruits and Vegetables
• Roses- Soda Bottle Propagator 2015
• Shade Garden plants
• Soil Preparation
• Structural Pests- MVES training 2016
• The Mighty Monarch Migration
• The Monarchs are Coming – 2020
• Tool ART Sculpture – Arnold Blaylock Alpha Listing
• Wicked Plants
• Plant Propagation Intern class
• MG-Jan. 2014
• Roses- Soda Bottle Propagator
• A stroll in the landscape June 2017
• A Stroll Through the Gardens July 2017
• A stroll through the garden Aug 2017
• Master Gardener Class of 2017 Project