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CHES – Tree Care During a Drought

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Community Horticulture Education Series
Monday, February 10, 6:30 pm
Somervell County Citizens Center
209 SW Barnard, Glen Rose
Free and Open to the Public

Tree Care During a Drought by Steve Houser

Cedar-elm-treeProlonged drought and heat in Texas can severely impact your trees and can ultimately be detrimental to your landscape plants as well. In this presentation, you will understand the basic impacts of drought and heat on your trees, as well as their natural response. You will also learn how you can best prepare for drought by using tactful techniques and good planning to maintain a sustainable and thriving landscape.  Future watering restrictions will require your landscape to be more drought tolerant.  Are your trees and landscape ready?”

stevehouserSteve Houser, Dallas County Master Gardener, Master Naturalist and certified arborist will cover not only how to care for our trees during these rough drought years, but will also give us advice on how to care for our precious trees during this crazy icy and sub-freeze-prone winter! Steve is also involved in projects to preserve our historic trees in our region and will give us insight into this exciting and worthy effort.

This program is FREE and open to the public!

Somervell County Master Gardeners

Community Horticultural Education Series – CHES

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Next CHES Meeting – Monday, January 13, 2014, 6:30 pm

Senior Citizens Center

209 SW Barnard

 Glen Rose, Texas

“Firewise Landscaping”

presented by Phylliss Webster, Hood County Master Gardener

During extended periods of drought, when the risk of wildfires is highest,

your plant choices and their placement in the landscape could make your home

vulnerable to fire damage.  We will learn how to protect our homes from wildfire

by using methods that are effective in our area.

Community Horticulture Education Series (CHES)

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 Community Horticulture Education Series (CHES)

Meeting on the 2nd Monday of every month except December

No Meeting in December

209 SW Barnard St, Glen Rose, Texas

Next Regular Business Meeting of the Somervell County Master Gardeners

January 15, 2014 at 10:00 am

1405 Texas Dr, Glen Rose, Texas

Gardening Successes/Flops and Whimsical Container Gardening

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Community Horticulture Education Series
Monday, October 14, 6:30 pm
Somervell County Citizens Center
209 SW Barnard, Glen Rose
Free and Open to the Public

Fun Container Gardening and What Works and What Doezn’t

Pumpkin ContainerThis month’s CHES meeting with be presented by two of our very own Somervell County Master Gardeners.  Come and hear our President, Shirley D. Smith, share with you what has worked around her gardens and what has been a flop!  She will share a slide presentation showing some of her foul-ups as well as some of her successes.  Then, the SCMGA Historian, Julie Conner, will talk to you on “Fun Container Gardening.”  Julie is quite talented when it comes to planting container gardens and decorating them with ordinarily “found” objects.

As usual, we will have door prizes.  So, come join us in this very informative two-part program. You will NOT be disappointed.

Pollinators, Pests and Predators

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Community Horticulture Education Series
Monday, September 9, 6:30 pm
Somervell County Citizens Center
209 SW Barnard, Glen Rose
Free and Open to the Public

 “Pollinators, Pests and Predators”

Speaker Curt Decker, Natural Resource Specialist, Fossil Rim Wildlife Center

arthropodsJoin us on September 9, 2013 for our Community Horticulture Education Series program “Pollinators, Pests and Predators”. Curt Decker, Natural Resources Specialist at Fossil Rim Wildlife Center will examine the various arthropods we might come across in the garden and the various roles they play. By nearly any measure, the most successful animals on the planet are the arthropods . . . the REAL rulers of the Earth!

Curt will explore those commonly considered “beneficial” (pollinators and those that control “pests”) as well as some that might surprise us in how they fit into a gardens health. Discussion will involve ways we can encourage the desired ones and what we can do to discourage those we would rather not have. Each and every critter has a role to play and the more you know about the subject the better off your growing plants will be.  Curt is extremely knowledgeable about all things that creep and crawl about on the ground or buzz about in the air and loves to share one of his favorite passions. You are sure to learn AND be entertained as well!

This program is FREE and open to the public! Children are certainly welcome and encouraged, too! Door prizes will be given out as well!