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*** Plant Growing Guide ***
Articles
“Garden Patch” by Phyllis Webster
06-14-2025 – Select Blooming Trees
06/10/2025 – The Sky Is the Limit
05/25/2025 – It’s All About Annuals
05/03/2025 – Plant Recommended Perennials (part 2 of 2)
04/19/2025 – Grow Reliable Perennials (part 1 of 2)
o4/05/2025 – Buy Drought-Tolerant Plants
03-23-2025 – Grow Lenten Roses
03-08-2025 – Prepare for Spring
02/22/2025 – Create a Wild Bird Refuge
02/08/2025 – Garden from the Heart
01/25/25 – Guard Against Wildfire
01/11/25 – Make Garden Resolutions
12/28/24 – Nurture Holiday Plants
12/08/24 – Recognize Garden Imposters
11/30/24 – Warmth Encourages Blooms
11/16/24 – Harvest Holidays from Your Garden
11/02/24 – Build a Multi-layered Landscape
10/19/24 – Prepare for Wildlife
10/05/24 – Divide and Multiply!
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
“In the Garden” by Jane and Ray McGowen
02/2022 – Winter Color in the Garden
01/2022 – Dirty Little Secrets
11/2021 – Pansies – A Welcome Face for Winter Color
09/2021 – Crape Myrtles
08/2021 – Summer Sunflowers
07/2021 – Go Native with Coneflowers
06/2021 – 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
- 2025-06-18 – The Gardens of Lake Granbury Master Gardeners.pdf
- 2025-05-21 – Gardening for Health – TAFB program
- 2025-04-16 – Herbal Teas and Their Benefits
- 2025-03-19 – Basics of Seed Collection
- 2025-01-15 – Tree Diseases & Pests
Prior Year Presentations
- Attracting Pollinators to Garden
- Backyard Composting – Tarrant Area Food Bank
- Bird House Gourds
- Compost & Structures
- Daylilies – Care and Maintenance
- Daylily Hybridizers Handout (Beth Rainwater) – Oct.16, 2024
- 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)
- Herbs for Bees Handout – July 17, 2024
- 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