Muskingum Valley Garden Society"Spring Fever" Home Gardening Symposium
This annual event is held the first Saturday in March at the Ohio University-Zanesville Campus in the Campus Center. The event features nationally known speakers and educators on such topics as container gardening, vegetable gardening, organic gardening, lawn care, tree care, water gardening and much more. A continental breakfast and full buffet lunch are included. Seating is limited so pre-register today. Pre-registration is $15.00 per person. Registration at the door is $20.00.
Featured Speaker, Troy B. Marden
Our featured speaker this
year will be Troy Marden who will present Potted up, Planted out - Great
combinations for containers & gardens.
Troy Marden is a plantsman, garden designer
and author who has been a passionate plant lover all of his life.
His 25-plus years of professional experience
include time spent in nearly every facet of the industry, from
nursery production and retail garden centers to stints at some of
the country’s best known public gardens.
He has been a co-host of Nashville Public
Television’s hit gardening show, Volunteer Gardener, for 10
years and also writes regularly for some of the country’s top
gardening magazines.
A committed foodie, Troy’s blog,
Gardener Cook, has become popular with plant lovers and food
lovers alike.
His latest venture,
which will launch in 2012, is a Garden Tour division of his business
that will take other passionate gardeners on trips to some of the
finest horticultural destinations in the U.S. and around the world.
2012 will also find Troy
writing his first book, to be published by Timber Press in early
2013. You can find more
information at
www.troybmarden.com.
Blog:
Gardener Cook
http://troybmarden.blogspot.com/
Our second speaker will be Cheryl Harner who will be presenting
"Home Sweet Habitat: Native Plants in the Landscape"
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