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Garden workshops will be held in April, as part of the "Spring Garden Trio," hosted by Cornell Cooperative Extension of Suffolk County.
Cornell Cooperative Extension of Suffolk County will kick off its "Spring Garden Trio," featuring keynote speeches, lectures and workshops, starting Saturday, March 19.
Cornell Cooperative Extension of Suffolk County will kick off its "Spring Garden Trio," featuring keynote speeches, lectures and workshops, starting Saturday, March 19.
Cornell Cooperative Extension of Suffolk County will kick off its "Spring Garden Trio," featuring keynote speeches, lectures and workshops, starting Saturday, March 19.
Margaret Roach
Cornell Cooperative Extension of Suffolk County will kick off its "Spring Garden Trio," featuring keynote speeches, lectures and workshops, starting Saturday, March 19.
Cornell Cooperative Extension of Suffolk County will kick off its "Spring Garden Trio," featuring keynote speeches, lectures and workshops, starting Saturday, March 19.
Rick Darke
Cornell Cooperative Extension of Suffolk County will kick off its "Spring Garden Trio," featuring keynote speeches, lectures and workshops, starting Saturday, March 19.
Attention gardening novices and veterans alike: the Master Gardeners Spring Gardening School is back, and bigger than ever.
For over three decades, the program — hosted by Cornell Cooperative Extension of Suffolk County — has ushered in the arrival of blooming flowers, shrubs and trees, chirping birds, and colorful butterflies. This year, the annual tradition is sprouting into a three-part package, “Spring Garden Trio,” which includes virtual lectures and in-person workshops over three Saturdays, starting March 19 — less than 24 hours before the first day of spring.
“CCE Suffolk’s mission has always been to educate and serve Suffolk County residents about home gardening and community efforts to grow more food,” Roxanne Zimmer, head of Community Horticulture at CCE Suffolk County, said in a statement. “Given the importance of serving the gardening public in these times, we are able to expand the programs and engage garden lovers and green thumbs anywhere.”
Next Saturday, photographer and horticulturalist Rick Darke will give the virtual lecture “Dynamic Design & the Art of Observation” starting at 10 a.m. The co-author of “The Living Landscape: Designing for Beauty and Biodiversity in the Home Garden” and expert on native plants will demonstrate how to better understand and transform a landscape. General admission is $10.
On March 26, Margaret Roach, gardening columnist for The New York Times, will discuss “Non-Stop Plants: A Garden for 365 Days,” alongside nine other horticultural experts talking about native plants and good garden practices, from 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. during a virtual Spring Gardening School seminar.
The final installment of “Spring Garden Trio” are a series of garden workshops, held in person at Suffolk County Farm in Yaphank, on April 30 from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Classes include flower arranging, pruning, bonsai, drip irrigation, backyard bees and more.
For more information about “Spring Garden Trio,” visit online.fliphtml5.com/ifobx/lgfr.
Staff Writer on Mar 8, 2022