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October CHES – Native Ornamental Grasses

October 1, 2023 by jkirksey

Our Speaker is Donna Parikka.  Donna was born in Merced and raised in Citrus Heights, California on a mini family farm.  Gardening was always a large part of her childhood as they raised their own vegetables, fruit and beef.    She participated in 4-H for 7 years with horse, beef, clothing, food and leadership projects.  She has lived on Cleburne and Burleson Texas for the last 53 years.  She attended University of Texas at Arlington and worked for 50 years as an accountant, most of which were with the same CPA firm in Cleburne.   Her interests are gardening or anything outdoors including hanging out with her two very spoiled Australian Shepherds..

A lifetime gardener she became a Tarrant County Master Gardener in the class of 2018 as part of her retirement plan.  She is now the lead over the demonstration native grasses garden and serves as the TCMGA as treasurer in 2023. She is a master gardener advanced tree and propagation specialist and a Citizen Forester.

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We Love Our Dinosaur

September 4, 2023 by jkirksey

Come see The Somervell County Master Gardeners Dino at her new home in Paluxy Heritage Park  – 103 Heritage Place, Glen Rose. 

 

Kudos to the artist Molly Golson for painting such a beautiful dino.
Our dino still needs a name.  If you would like to submit a name for consideration, click on the link below.

CLICK HERE TO SUBMIT A NAME

Her name will be announced on October 14 at the Master Gardener Learning Expo.  Come join the fun from 10:00am to 2:00pm.  More details to follow

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September 11 CHES – Composting Basics

August 22, 2023 by jkirksey

Monty Anderson – Master Gardener.  Master Composter.  Certified Propagation Specialist.
Monday, September 11, 2023
6:30 – 7:30pm
Somervell County Citizens Center, 209 SW Barnard, Glen Rose

 

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 Monty Anderson has been a Master Gardener
since 2016, and participates in both the Tarrant
County and Somervell County Master Gardener Program.
Monty was born in Fort Worth. He holds B.A
and M.A. degrees. After 38 years with Bell
Helicopter Monty retired in 2013. He and his wife, Lisa,
live in Somervell County.

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June 12 CHES – Running a Cut Flower Farm

June 6, 2023 by Donna Hagar

Megan Lee and Cara Phillips of The Glynn – Cut Flower Farm
Monday, June 12, 2023
6:30 – 7:30pm
Somervell County Citizens Center, 209 SW Barnard


The Glynn Flower FarmMegan Lee and Cara Phillips, residents of  Glen Rose, started The Glynn, a cut flower farm in the spring of 2022. They are finishing their first year in June and will be discussing their experiences with the business.  It has been a year of lots of learning and they look forward to sharing some of that with you.

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UPDATE – May 8 CHES – Gardening for Pollinators with Addison Singleton

May 2, 2023 by Donna Hagar

Update…Join us May 8, 2023, 6:30pm at the Somervell County Citizens Center, 209 SW Barnard. 

Yes, it usually helps to include a location and time for our programs! This one is definitely one you will want to attend.

Join us Monday, May 8, 2023, 6:30pm at the Somervell County Citizens Center, 209 SW Barnard.
A graduate student at Tarleton State University in the department of Wildlife and Natural Resources, Addison specializes in pollinator ecology and plant-pollinator interactions. Her current research focuses on improving pollinator diversity and resource use under drought stress in North-Central Texas. Addison has been collecting data on 20 species of drought tolerant landscape perennials and will be showcasing some of my results thus far. She is fascinated by how pollinators choose which flowers to visit and how flowers attract pollinators. Her hope is to inspire others to see these relationships or at least learn to respect insects for  all their services.

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May 8 CHES – Gardening for Pollinators with Addison Singleton

May 2, 2023 by Donna Hagar

Join us Monday, May 8, 2023, 6:30pm at the Somervell County Citizens Center, 209 SW Barnard.
A graduate student at Tarleton State University in the department of Wildlife and Natural Resources, Addison specializes in pollinator ecology and plant-pollinator interactions. Her current research focuses on improving pollinator diversity and resource use under drought stress in North-Central Texas. Addison has been collecting data on 20 species of drought tolerant landscape perennials and will be showcasing some of my results thus far. She is fascinated by how pollinators choose which flowers to visit and how flowers attract pollinators. Her hope is to inspire others to see these relationships or at least learn to respect insects for  all their services.

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Plant Sale Saturday!!

April 19, 2023 by Donna Hagar

This SATURDAY, APRIL 22, 2023

Lots of drought tolerant plants, annuals, perennials, veggies, hanging baskets and more. Don’t forget our raffle drawings for Garden Themed Baskets ($2/tkt), a Rain Barrel ($5/tkt) and a Garden Tiller ($10/tkt)!

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Vegetable Gardening in North Texas

March 7, 2023 by Donna Hagar

Spring VegetablesJoin the Somervell County Master Gardeners with speaker Teresa Day-Fickel with a program on Vegetable Gardening in North Texas. Monday, March 13, 2023 6:30pm to 7:30pm at the Somervell Citizens Center, 209, SW Barnard, Glen Rose.

Teresa enjoys gardening and volunteering her time as a Tarrant County Master Gardener and has completed advanced training in Vegetables, Propagation, and Greenhouse Management. She loves teaching people how to grow, harvest and preserve food at the Harvesting Hope Community Garden in Arlington. She developed and teaches the food preservation series of classes at the Tarrant Area Food Bank demonstration kitchen.

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Somervell County Master Gardening Association Presents

January 29, 2023 by grecker

 
 
 
 
 
CHES Program – February 13, 2023
Beginning at 6:30pm unl 7:30pm, Somervell Cizens Center located
at 209 SW Barnard Street in Glen Rose, TX
 
Marie-JoséSmith on Roses and Rose Care
 
 
Marie-Jose was born in Paris, France. She graduated from the European
Business School with a Masters in Business Administration. She met her
husband Chris in Brussels and before long they were married and moved to
Burleson, TX. She very quickly realized that gardening in Texas was very
different from Europe and challenging but noticed that roses didn’t have too
many problems with heat and drought. So, she focused on learning about
roses and filled her garden with them. Marie-Jose is a Tarrant County Master
Gardener. She is the lead of the Rose Garden in the Tarrant County
Demonstration Garden and Docent at the Japanese Garden within the Botanic
Garden in Fort Worth.
 
 
 
 

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Community Education!

December 27, 2022 by grecker

Please join the Somervell County Master Gardeners for a fun and informative information on trees. 

  January 9, 2023, 6pm – 7pm

               Somervell Citizen Center

               Speaker Morgan McBride will have a presentation on Trees, followed by time available for Question and Answers

Morgan McBride has resided on 3 acres in Manseld Texas for 28 years and serves the DFW market area
as an outside sales representa!ve for Everde Growers. He is an avid hobby gardener who loves to spend
!me in his vegetable and (ower gardens with his family. Morgan was in(uenced by his mother at a very
early age to appreciate the beauty and magic of na!ve plants and gardening. He won his rst blue
ribbon at age 6 for a prize marigold plant from the Mexia Texas Garden Club.
Morgan has come full circle in the plant industry. He spent 20 years as director of opera!ons for J&J
Landscape Management and then spent 5 years as a wholesale nursery manager for Skinner Nurseries.
He has now been in outside sales with Everde Growers for the past 12 years. Morgan is a Texas Cer!ed
Nursery Professional #5341 and serves on the Texas Nursery and Landscape Association Region IV board of directors.  His true passion is trees and plants.

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