16th Annual Garden Seminar Coming On October 21st, the Gibson County Master Gardeners (GCMG) will host their 16th garden seminar at the Gibson County Fairground Toyota Events Center. The event will take place at the fairgrounds, the same location as the first GCMG garden seminar 19 years ago. In recent years, the venue for this seminar has been the Princeton Community Middle School. Dr. Laura Deeter, an Ohio State University professor of landscape horticulture and horticulture science, who has published many articles on perennials, will speak on “Rules of Garden Design: When and How to Break Them.” Another speaker Guest speaker, Debra Knapke from Ohio, Debra Knapke, who writes a garden website (http:// debrathegardensage.com), will talk on “Edible Ornamentals: The Marriage of Use and Beauty.”. She has written five books on gardening. She maintains 26 garden areas separated by narrow grassy strips. Her specialty is herbs. Representing our local area will be Denise Jamerson. Denise will be talking about Lyles Station’s the Legacy Taste of the Garden endeavor, and the Black Farmer’s Movement. Another speaker from the Tri-State area will be Cathy Schmitt who will present information about the Western Kentucky Botanical Garden in Owensboro. This is a project that began with a donation of land and a group of Master Gardeners eager and willing to
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take on the project. The GCMG was organized in February 1998, when a group of Master Gardeners from SWIMGA (Southwest Indiana Master Gardener Association) decided to reorganize as a Gibson County chapter. GCMG is sponsored by the Gibson County Purdue Extension located in Princeton. In those early days, members of GCMG made presentations at community events like the 1998 Lawn and Garden Show and the 2002 Gibson County Garden & Home Show, both sponsored by The Green Thumb Garden Club of Gibson County. GCMG’s own first garden seminar took place in 2004, at the activities building at the fairgrounds. There were fiftysix attendees who came to hear about gardening accessibility, greenhouses, preparing new garden beds, and hardy water plants. GCMG continued to host annual seminars until 2015. Guest speaker, Denise Jamison By then, attendance was over 100 attendees and the February event venue was the Princeton Community Middle School. That year the group decided to move the event to the fall and to alternate with SWIMGA’s garden seminar, which had also changed to meeting biennially. SWIMGA’s seminar now meets in October on evennumbered years, while GCMG’s “Once Upon A Garden” seminar meets on odd-numbered years. The 2023 “Once Upon A Garden” seminar will begin at 9 AM and end at 3 PM. A light breakfast snack and a lunch are included in the cost of the conference. The public is welcome to register for the conference. Information and registration materials are on the GCMG website, which is www.gcmga.org.
Guest speaker, Dr. Laura Detter
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