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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!


Articles | Plant Disease and Pest Control | Videos | Presentations


*** Plant Growing Guide ***


Articles

“Garden Patch” by Phyllis Webster

11-01-2025-Let_Leaves_Lie!
10-15-2025_Embrace_Pocket_Gardens
10-04-2025 – Perfect Fall’s Plant Palette
09-20-2025-Protect_the_Monarchs
09-11-2025-Create-A-Courtyard-Garden
08-23-2025-Know Your Moonflowers
08-16-2025-ContainYourGardenEnthusiasm!
07-26-2025-CelebrateColorfulCrapeMyrtles
07-12-2025 Some Like It Wet
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

“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

  • The surprising fall armyworm
  • Armyworm Fact Sheet 2018
  • Rose Rosette Symptom Guide

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

  • 2025-10-15_Propagation   and Propagation handouts
  • 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
    • Dirt on Backyard Composting Handout
    • What to Compost Guide
    • Garden Workday Flyer
  • 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

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